Kali Katt of Occupy San Diego recounts her arrest

Kali Katt of Occupy San Diego recounts her experience to the San Diego City Council after being arrested on October 28 2011. The video quality is lousy but I'm posting this mostly for the audio. Thanks, Kali, for speaking out.

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[obragblog]

@nimblenuts09, as far as I remember the city council had NO COMMENT regarding Kali's experience at the hands of police.

[sk8ncre8]

I haven't gotten off my ass to join the movement, but the footage Ive been seeing has got me so digusted with our country, that Im going to now get involved. Its not fair for this lady or anyone, to fight for my rights, while I let them be abused by our government goons. I understand now, how people are willing to die for their rights. This is a war that I do support, and I will Join the occupy sd army.

[Charmedbysnakes]

we need to guard ourself. im sorry this happened to you and i hope something comes from this

[okamasphere]

@TheAnubisDrake Wow, hypocritical much? Then they should be arguing against the circumstances of the arrest, not their 'terrible' expierence of already being arrested. How would I miss the point when I'm talking exactly what they are complaining about? And no, the protest is not legal when there are numerous complaints from residents, crime taking place and sexual assaults at these 'protests'. Do something about it instead of being pissed at people you put into office.

[TheAnubisDrake]

@okamasphere Not to mention that the excuse for the raid was the unsanitary conditions of the occupation when the location they were taken to was FAR worse of a health hazard than the location they were taken from.

[TheAnubisDrake]

@okamasphere I think you might have missed the point that these arrests should never have happened in the first place. OSD is a protest and as such protected not only under the constitution of the united states but the bill of rights plus many state and local laws and ordinances including the one that these women were arrested under.

[okamasphere]

@thorpowerfly

I'm probably more well acquainted with San Diego than you are as I'm a registered process sever for san diego county. I to have been booked in county before. I know how close the protest is to the jailhouse and courthouse. However, would you consider that all man power was being used by SDPD during these protests? When you get arrested, you can't seriously consider having any request, no matter how little it is to be met. You lose your freedom when you are detained, simple as that.

[thorpowerfly]

@okamasphere Everybody knows jail sucks, the key element to the story that these people were sitting in a van for 3 hours. I don't know how well acquainted you are with San Diego, but the jailhouse is less than two blocks away from the site of their arrest. In fact, the police could walk these 15 women to jail in less than 3 minutes time.  I've been in that jail before and for a worse crime than excessive noise. I never rotted in the back of a cop car. The police's actions were deliberate.

[nimblenuts09]

@okamasphere - You are incorrect. Each time I’ve been booked into jail I have had timely access to facilities to relieve myself and was given water to drink when I asked for it. While jail is no picnic at the park, it takes intentional neglect to arrestees for Kali’s experience to happen. There’s every reason to believe that the conditions she encountered had everything to do with the fact that she was part of Occupy San Diego.

[okamasphere]

its called Jail... what is she compalining about. Every person who goes to jail expierences this.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

Its funny how cops treat these people bad when they are being messed over just as bad and these Occupy people are fight for their rights.