Court Support For Comrade Ali, Vallejo

During the Mario Romero Second Annual BBQ on September 1st folks marched in solidarity with the call-out from Ferguson to take to the streets & to halt traffic at busy intersections for 4’30” to symbolize the 4 hours and 30 minutes that Mike Brown lay in the streets after he was murdered by officer Darren Wilson.  The police began pushing people towards the side walk in an aggressive & intimidating manner.  Noticing that all the police had lapel cameras that were not turned on Ali politely requested the officers to activate their cameras, and that is when he heard a threat from behind him from one of the officers to “get off the street or you know what is going to happen.”  Ali asked him what he meant by that when he was confronted by a sergeant and threatened with arrest. Ali continued to ask the sergeant to order his officers to turn their lapel cameras on so the crowd would feel safer, knowing that their actions were being recorded. While Ali was talking to the sergeant on the edge of the side walk (the officer was in the middle of the street), the policeman came from the middle of the street and arrested Ali for PC 148, Obstructing a Police Officer.

Court support is requested to show solidarity with the families of Vallejo who have lost loved ones to arbitrary police violence and are being continuously harassed to this day.