I attended Katheryn Zimmerman’s pretrial readiness hearing today. The police have failed to deliver evidence through what is known as discovery and the judge, Wilson, has mysteriously failed to receive the motion. Video of the alleged incident in possession of law enforcement is likely to show the truth of the matter and is the requested item that is being illegally withheld by the CHP.  Kat Zimmerman, a young woman who is diminutive in physical stature, is alleged by the CHP to have brutalized a CHP officer, who is described as “huge”*, to the point where he has had to be hospitalized for a torn rotator cup tendon (?) in his shoulder and also requires many weeks of recuperation time. Judging by the CHP’s reluctance, possibly refusal, to submit any evidence to support their dubious claim it seems likely that the peace demonstrator’s version of things which is backed by ample evidence, though no video, of the attack on Ms. Zimmerman they allege was the actual situation.
Your support for a fair trial for this very young and morally driven woman is support for all who would like to see a peaceful democracy instituted in America including our right to speak out against atrocities of gigantic magnitude such the illegal, immoral and utterly brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq, a defensless country that posed no threat to us. It is also support for your own fair trial if you speak out and say something that the plutocrats don’t like.
This malicious litigation against peaceful demonstrators is, ironically, the best example of why we must take to the streets rather than making our case in the venues of the legal system and the corporate media.
While Ms. Zimmerman has been our primary focus in the November 2nd. 2005 litigious attacks others were also charged with a variety of mostly petty charges such as still having a back wheel in the road when the light changed etc. Others who were not demonstrating were not cited even when still in the center of the intersection.
* as far as I know this officer has not yet shown his face in court on this matter, supposedly due to being far to battered by this small woman but I suspect it is embarrassment if not outright shame.