Court Watch for Eduardo Cardenas

COURT WATCH URGENTLY NEEDED!
SUPPORT RAID RESPONSE TEAM MEMBER EDUARDO CARDENAS
Thursday, February 12
9:30 a.m.
Hennepin County Government Center
300 S 6th Street, Minneapolis

Eduardo Cardenas goes to court on Thursday and he needs a packed court room to ensure justice.

Eduardo is part of a raid response team through Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition (MIRAC), a kind of copwatch team that arrives on the scene anytime there is a raid by BICE (federal anti-immigrant agency). He was responding to a call on July 29th when he found Minneapolis cops harassing three Somali men. Eduardo took photos from a safe distance. When it was clear that the men would not be arrested and cops were leaving the area, Eduardo approached the men to ask why they had been stopped. Cops then attacked Eduardo, slamming him into a wall and seizing his wallet and phone against his will. One of the cops erased the pictures he had taken. Eduardo was charged with obstructing legal process and disorderly conduct, some of the same charges Darryl Robinson was slapped with when he was brutalized during a shelter copwatch. Clearly these attacks are aimed at discouraging people from capturing police conduct on film.

To everyone's amazement, the prosecution still has not dropped the charges against Eduardo. Perhaps they need to understand that many people in this community stand with Eduardo and will not let him go down on these bogus charges. Please do your best to be there with Eduardo on Thursday.