Loud angry protests. Fuck police brutality. It's time to stand up against abuse. Very true, but aren't we forgetting something? Or rather, someONE?

People, there is somebody who's already in jail right now who's involved with this story.

Know who it is? It's not Officer Morse and it's not Donovan Jackson. It's the guy who SHOT THE VIDEOTAPE.

A whistleblower against police misconduct is now imprisoned and probably being physically and mentally abused and HARDLY ANYONE IS SPEAKING ABOUT IT on the IMC.

I understand that Donovan and the issue of police abuse is important, but we have to remember that if it hadn't been for Mitchell Crooks who shot the video in the first place, Donovan's abuse would certainly go unpunished and unnoticed.

I think it's our duty as activists for social justice to shine an enormous spotlight on the case of the man who shot the videotape and why HE is now behind bars.

Wake up people and start talking about this. PLEASE!

Our protest signs should read along the lines of "FIRE MORSE AND FREE CROOKS".

If we protest against the police abuse of Donovan Jackson WITHOUT addressing the situation of Mitchell Crooks, we're all hypocrits.

FREE MITCHELL NOW

ClassWar,

I don't know what to say. I agree with you completely. This guy did this in the spirit of the IMC model. A DIY videographer taping police brutality. We need to support him and all others like him. Ok, the guy had some legal problems...very minor ones really. BUT, these are used as excuses to persecute him.

In the tradition of IMC, we need to support him. SO, how do we do this. First quesiton is...what is the status of his incarceration, bail, etc. Let's give him the support that is needed. Does anyone have info on his situation?

peace,

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THE INGLEWOOD BEATING
A Life of Ups and Downs, Then Fame

Aftermath: Mitchell Crooks stepped forward knowing it could get him in trouble. It did. His mother and a best
friend defend his motives.

By ERIKA HAYASAKI and ROBIN FIELDS, TIMES STAFF WRITERS

In the moments after he videotaped Inglewood police beating 16-year-old
Donovan Jackson, Mitchell Crooks cried, disturbed and horrified by what
he had captured.

Hours later, however, the down-on-his-luck rave party deejay was all
business, calling media outlets from 3 a.m. on offering to sell the violent
images.

The way his best
friend, Dan Hanna,
tells it, a jumble of
impulses--some
noble, others
mercenary--drove
Crooks' decision to
thrust himself and his
video into the public
eye. Crooks urgently needed a payday, Hanna
said. Homeless, with a hardscrabble resume that
included a drunk-driving charge and a theft from
his own mother, Crooks had fallen far short of the
success and stardom he sought after moving to
Los Angeles three years ago to spin dance beats.

But when the 27-year-old Crooks' celebrity instant finally came, it helped land him in jail, drawing
attention to outstanding warrants stemming from a night of reckless behavior in February 1999.

As the news storm he triggered raged on, prompting hundreds of protesters to march on Inglewood
City Hall on Friday, Crooks was headed for a Placer County jail cell.

Fueling the controversy, an Inglewood police report obtained by The Times revealed that Jackson was
punched twice by another officer even before the action on Crooks' tape begins. The report also
described the youth as violently resisting police, a contention his attorneys denied.

Crooks could not be reached for this story. Hanna, his mother and his attorney defended him, insisting
that his arrest was retaliation for his part in exposing police brutality.

"It's a shame that the spotlight is going on my son, instead of the videotape of this officer," said his
mother, Patricia Crooks, in a telephone interview from her apartment in Placer County. "This is not
how it's supposed to go down. He did something good and it's backfiring on him."

Crooks' sudden prominence came at the tail end of a two-month road trip with his friend Hanna, 42.
The same tape that shows the beating also contains highlights from the pair's visits to New York,
Chicago, Miami, Dallas and other places, said Hanna, an out-of-work prop man.

The two spent the last couple of weeks staying in cheap hotels in Los Angeles. Then came the moment
six days ago when Crooks heard screaming, grabbed his $400 Sony video camera and recorded the
two-minute snippet in which a handcuffed Jackson, who is black, was slammed on a squad car trunk,
then punched in the head by a white cop.

Crooks knew that publicizing the tape could bring his three-year-old charges of drunk driving,
hit-and-run and petty theft to light, but did it anyway because he thought it was right, his mother said.

She, of all people, knew her son was no angel: The theft in question involved her. He took two
videocassette recorders from her home, intending to sell them.

"He's done some bad things in his life," his mother acknowledged. "I knew they were going to catch up
with him. [But] he was more concerned about justice. I know that about my son."

Police at the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles, where Crooks was held Thursday night,
were quick to label his actions opportunistic.

"He is just getting an opportunity to get more publicity and money," said a female officer who did not
want her name disclosed. She said he just wanted to "get rich off somebody's sorrows or woes. It's like
pimping."

Hanna says Crooks was pleased when TV stations offered him $150 apiece for use of the videotape.

Hanna also has been thrust into the spotlight by his friendship with Crooks.

Thursday night, CBS put Hanna up in the upscale Renaissance Hotel at Hollywood and Highland after
he agreed to appear on "The Morning Show" to talk about Crooks.

Still, some things counted more to Crooks than money.

He told ABC he wouldn't give the network the videotape unless they put Bill Maher's recently canceled
"Politically Incorrect" back on television, Hanna said.

A Green Party supporter who adores Ralph Nader and hates President Bush, Crooks also withheld the
tape from CBS because he said it "blew the [presidential] election" by calling a winner too early, Hanna
said.

Ultimately, whether or not his intentions were pure, Crooks' actions have brought what many consider
an injustice to light.

"His first instinct was to make sure somebody else saw what happened," his mother said.

"He always hated seeing the poor guy that's down, because he's been down in his life. He's had
troubles, too."

Born in Auburn, Calif., Crooks was raised by a single mother in a household almost always under
financial strain. He met his father, who left his mother when she was pregnant with him, just once, when
he was 9. He still refuses to talk about him, his mother said.

Her son grew up independent and strong-willed, Patricia Crooks said.

He got into trouble as a youngster, when a scuffle with another kid landed him in juvenile hall, Hanna
said. Patricia Crooks said her son was abused there, and it left an "ugly taste in his mouth" for the
police.

"They pulled his hair," she said. "He had shoulder-length hair and he had gotten mouthy with one of the
guards. The guard decided to take him down on the floor. I mean, the guard took a chunk of hair out
by the root. [He] had a bald spot on his head for months. It was horrible."

His move to Los Angeles was an effort to leave his youthful missteps behind and start fresh, said his
attorney, Dean Masserman, who described Crooks as a "soft-spoken, gentle, socially conscious,
frayed-nerved young man."

"He's been through a lot," Masserman said. "He comes from a very small town where he didn't really
like living, and he was trying to make things better for himself [in Los Angeles]."

But by Friday, stripped of the hero status he briefly held for bearing witness to Jackson's beating,
Crooks sounded vulnerable in a message he left for his friend Hanna.

"I'm really afraid," he told his friend in a call from jail. "I'm really scared. They're going to take me back
to Placer County so Placer County can have their turns beating on me.... They've already roughed me
up. I've got scars. I've got bruises."

Follow the link to an MSNBC overview, which includes a section on Michell Crooks.

• His warrant is four years in the past, and he appears to be reforming himself.
• Mitchell Crooks has allegedly already been abused by police, and future abuse is possible.
• The focus on him is an attempt to discredit the facts on tape.
• Whistleblowers need special protection from retaliation.

Send your letter of support to his attorney Dean Masserman, 8383 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 750, BH, CA 90211. http://www.vgme.com

I would think his attornery is already on his side. Is there contact info for ... his captures, D.A., chief o'police? Ya know, somebody that NEEDS an onslot of public oppinion.

So by your logic, the policeofficer should have been protected from arrest if he decides to become a whistleblower against the police department? Thats just plain stupid; a broken law is a broken law, just or unjust. Both the officer and Crooks knew they were breaking the law, both deserve punishment.

From 10/83 to 4/85 I was outrageously framed
[ Rigged to the hilt police lineup ] by over ambitious veteran police officers from the fashionable suburb of Schaumburg Illinois.

I was locked up for 5 mos. in the Cook County Jail
and nearly got sentenced to 60 yrs. in prison on what
turned out to be a very cruel " Hoax " by the police.

I carried the ball and exonerated myself in court with a free lawyer.

2 mos. later by chance encounter, I met the killer in a
Howard Johnson,s coffee shop near my home.

The Schaumburg police are telling everyone I, am a
rapist and a Murderer [ lies and nonsense ]

I,ve been after the Schaumburg Police for 16 yrs.

" Sue the Bastards Blind "

Willis Earl Wiilson former U S M C

Of course he needs to be helped, but I'm surfing trying to find the name of the fund that has been started to help with his legal fees...they need 7,000 in the next few days....What is this fund? How do I find it and donate....Usefull information instead of just inflamed rhetoric, no matter how heartfelt, would do a lot more good.

The "re-sentencing" of Mitchell Crooks will occur Tuesday 16 July at 1pm in Auburn, California at 2775 Richardson Drive.
Please anyone in the area come out and show your support!

This is from indymedia.org and I have verified that this information is correct. Thanks everyone.




You may send contributions to his defense fund to

Black Womans Forum
3870 Crenshaw Bl 210
LA CA 90008
323 292 3009
Checks payable to Black Womans Forum, put "Mitchell Crooks" in the memo field

They are a non profit, and I was referred to them by Congresswoman Maxine Water's office who are at 323-757-8900.

How do you or anyone else know that Mitchell Crooks "appears to be reforming himself"? He is an abconder from justice. After all, he did have an outstanding warrant for his arrest not just from Petty Theft, but also a HIT AND RUN while being intoxicated!!! I believe that perhaps the true motive for this man videotaping the police brutality lies in his desire to BENEFIT from the video footage, such as paid interviews, etc.

Why not use efforts to help true victims of crime instead of people who create their own problems (consequences) as a result of their actions (criminal activity).

If he is has not paid the time for his crime, he has to pay up!

Look, this guy is no fucking hero; he just wanted to milk the situation for everything that it is worth and in his GREED he happened to get caught for something he did in the past. If he wanted to help the kid in the video he could have made copies of the tapes and distributed them anonymously to television and news stations. But he did not do this, he asked for MAXIMUM PAYMENT in order to release the video, he did as many interviews as possible in order to get paid. This idiot got caught in his own greed. DUI and Petty theft are nothing to laugh at and I am HAPPY AS HELL that he was caught and will serve time.

It seems to me that Crooks did not know what to do with the tape except that it HAD TO BE SEEN BY THE PUBLIC and he was scared of getting beaten up for having it. The mass media sucks. CNN sold him out. Why do you think they just happened to arrest him within view of a CNN security camera? How can you not believe that he was not exploited by these morons? Why are you even reading anything on this website?
Why did the county of Los Angeles let the key witness to the most controversial issue involving excessive use of force by a police officer in the last ten years get extradited from there? Is anyone paying attention to this??

Anyone know what his DJ name was? It would be effective in gaining support in the rave community that he spun in.

finding out his DJing name would be tremendously helpful for drumming up support--if he was any good, anyway.

at any rate, i don't care if he's greedy.
i don't care if he's a shitty person, and i don't care what crimes he's committed.
i imagine police caught in the act of beating a young child will do whatever they need to to penalize and shut up a witness.

I would like to apologize for my son, he doesn't get out much.

>So by your logic, the policeofficer should have been
>protected from arrest if he decides to become a
>whistleblower against the police department? Thats
>just plain stupid; a broken law is a broken law, just or
>unjust. Both the officer and Crooks knew they were
>breaking the law, both deserve punishment.

In the words of Ramona Africa: "Legal has never been synonymous with right."

Where is the protest! I'll be there. I have already written both my Senators and sent copies to civil rights groups. THe viedeographer and the guy abused need to be protected from the "legal system"

Crooks a corageous man? I don't think so. A corageous man would have accepted responsibility for his actions and accepted the punishment he received instead of running from the law. The guy obviously only cared about himself and hoped to get his criminal slate wiped clean for turning over the tape. He could certain give a rats ass less about black men getting their asses beat by the white police. I hope Mr. Crooks is getting fucked up the ass by a large angry black man as I write this.

The Good Doctor

If it was a hit and run, how would they know he was intoxicated if he ran away? Sounds fabricated.

What difference does it really make whether Crooks' motives are "pure" or not? It's not up to us whether he gets into Heaven, and that's the only place where ethical perfection matters.

Would it have been more "pure" for him to NOT make the tape available to the public?

The tendency of some leftist activists to focus on individual moral/ethical perfection is a holdover from our Christian roots. It's a distraction from what really matters, which is creating positive change in our society. Better to applaud and support each other for the good we do in the world and leave the nitpicking about perfect motives to God, or if you're an atheist, just leave it alone altogether.

The main point is that people should feel safe videotaping police misconduct and then coming forward as witnesses. Lots of people who witness police misconduct are themselves on the wrong side of the law and have good reason to be scared to speak out against the police. Why? Because cops misbehave against poor people, in poor neighborhoods. In these same neighborhoods, you will find a lot of people who are down and out, desperate, already abused by police, already with warrants out for their arrest.

So poor and vulnerable people are both more likely to witness police misconduct, and more likely to suffer if they rat on the police. SO, social justice activists should be commited to making it safer for poor, marginal, not-squeaky-clean people to speak out against the cops.

In Crooks' case, yeah, a hit-and-run makes him look bad. But why not at least bail him out of jail and see that he gets a lawyer, then at least he'll get the same rights a rich person would, and won't get beat up in jail just because he can't afford bail. Also, who cares if he got money from TV stations for the videos? The guy was homeless!! Why shouldn't he get the fat cats at the TV stations to put him up in a nice place, treat him well, and give him some money? They can afford it, and it didn't keep the video from getting out to the public.

Anyway, apparently Crooks does have a political and moral consciousness and scruples, according to the LA Times:

"Still, some things counted more to Crooks than money.He told ABC he wouldn't give the network the videotape unless they put Bill Maher's recently canceled "Politically Incorrect" back on television, Hanna said. A Green Party supporter who adores Ralph Nader and hates President Bush, Crooks also withheld the tape from CBS because he said it "blew the [presidential] election" by calling a winner too early."

So, donate if you can:
You may send contributions to his defense fund to

Black Womans Forum
3870 Crenshaw Bl 210
LA CA 90008
323 292 3009
Checks payable to Black Womans Forum, put "Mitchell Crooks" in the memo field

Referred tby Congresswoman Maxine Water's office who are at 323-757-8900.

I'm sure glad I didn't locked up while video taping the many protests I've covered for "us".

maybe he's homeless (one account I read said he'd just got back from a multi city nationwide ... vacation... maybe he was DJing.. who knows. Homeless, maybe. Gypsey, probably. ) WHO CARES. IRRELEVANT.

Ok, so he's got a couple warrents.... Is there PROOF of a hit & run .. while intoxicated(?). Who supplied us with this info.... cops? Do we trust cops to give accurate info now? When did that happen; must of been asleep for the memo that said we should believe the cops. True or not.... WHO CARES. IRRELEVANT.

If you call making 300 bucks of a tape Profiteering, or unethical and deserving of getting reamed for exposing injustice..... We all know that's F'n small potatos in light of the crooks we're letting invade our country... The Bush Cartel. He must have NEEDED the money to risk being apprehended. He could have annonimously dropped of a tape. Fame, you say. Risking getting busted for 300 bucks and some very fleeting fame. Bullshit. WHO CARES. IRRELEVANT.

He's not "one of us" you say. He's no activist, just some dude that was in the right spot with a camera. well, maybe he wasn't. If he gets no support you can bet he won't ever be one of "us". Who the hell would want to be. If he does get our support; well that's a different story isn't it. Activist or not. WHO CARES. IRRELEVANT.

If this is how we protect those who come forward you can be sure the next time something like this goes down the whistle blower will be wondering... if I come forward will anybody step up to make sure I'm safe?

Most IMC regulars think there needs to be a lot of changes made to get back the freedoms that our founding fathers fought tyranny to ensure u.s. Do you think this a good way to go about it. Letting those who expose take the fall alone? How brave we are. How quick to find fault when it means we have to Do Something to help ourselves.

Can someone please post where Crooks is being held?

Is anyone there protesting?

When do we start? When we hear that he's been convienently murdered in jail? Is that what it would take before he get's our support?

I think it's time to show a little solidarity here.

How much is his bail and how close are WE to springing him?

I'm damn poor right now myself, but I'm wiling to chip in BECAUSE I WOULD EXPECT THE SAME CONSIDERATION IF I WENT DOWN WHILE PROTECTING YOUR ASSES AT A PROTEST WITH MY CAMERA.

latest info will be at: freecrooks.com

IMHO, Mitchell Crooks is a fuck up. He did some crimes. He screwed over his mother. I bet he was a drug abuser. And even today, it seems like he's some kind of vagrant/partyer. He's no angel.

But, he could have remained silent, and he didn't.

I imagine that most people who witness police abuse are marginal. After all, who sees the cops the most, but people who are in close proximity to law enforcement?

It took guts for a marginal person to finger the cops. I hope it means that m.c. is making some big change in his life. This is my "bleeding heart" talking. My instincts for "justice" say that he needs to pay some debts back to society (and his mother!).

M.C. is one guy, and he'll get punished by the system (legally, or illegally, if you know what I mean). No doubt about that. This inevitability, however, is external to the fact that the Inglewood PD has an internal problem that allows renegade cops to operate outside of the law.

In their quest to reduce crime in the city, the IPD has given the police free reign over the city. That must be addressed. You can't run a city with a militia of "Dirty Harry" cops that abuse their special privileges to intimidate and abuse the people they are supposed to protect. Power must extend from the people.

Protection for whistleblowers is one way for the community to create a balance of power between cops and people.

Read msnbc.com article...

This is in protest towards the organization "citizens for police" who are constant "trolls" on this site. This organization is formed by ignorant racist white people in favor of jeremy morse. Jeremy morse is the "cowardly" officer from inglewood california who is on trial for the chickenshit beating of an innocent child last july 6th 2002.

These images were captured by mitchell crooks who was present at a hotel nearby the gas station where, Coby chavis the father of 16 year old donovan jackson was parked pumping gas. Several LA county sheriff cars descended to a "parked car" and found a black man driving a "taurus" (found to be too good a car for a black man by racist police) with unregistered tags.

As mitchell crooks found in his young life, Cops have a hatred towards black people and whites who think about living in a unified world. This is how they (cops and law enforcement) infiltrate our way of being. Anyone who has ever been in prison knows how the cops keep order because of the hate they spread. They could not maintain control of the prisons or society's without spreading the racism. This is the ONLY reason they remain in control and corrupt.

So back to the incident. 16 year old special Ed student Donovan jackson purchases a bag of chips with the money left over by paying to fill his fathers tank. Meanwhile after drinking heinekens all 4th of july weekend, mitchell crooks is laying down in his hotel room. Donovan walks out of the small little convenience store to find his dad in a police car for unregistered tags on his car. All this time, a young man from New zealand is taking pics of the arrest from the balcony of the hotel. (this man was flown in by the jeremy morse defense to testify against Donovan jackson) After returning to his fathers car, a hothead pig asks donovan to get out the car and put his hands up. An innocent teen who goes to church and is respectful to all? Donovan was scared to death because he knew he did nothing wrong. But, when your black, pigs hate you regardless. This pig was threatened by donovans black skin. He ordered him to stand still and not move. Donovan then put his hands in his pocket. Having nothing to fear (why wouldn't he?) he reached for his pocket and thats when the inglewood PD showed up at the scene. 5 police cars total. For unregistered tags?

Inglewood PD had been briefed earlier that a "GANG" was planning a hit on a cop. And sadaam had weapons of mass destruction too? This is the excuse by the department for their actions this day. Donovan is NO gang member. His father had plates on his car, I m sorry a sticker on his car that was expired. (prolly due to the outrageous cost of registering a car which the majority is fully aware of. No officers in inglewood were "HIT" on that day or since?

So on this Holiday weekend, when amerikkka is celebrating it's independence from europe, A "terrorist" opens fire at the el al terminal at Los Angeles international airport (LAX) killing two people. He was shot and killed by airport security. The Homeland Security was on high alert since the terrorist attack on 912. Shouldn't we be more concerned about protecting the citizens from terrorists? An unregistered car is hardly a terrorist threat. All this time mitchell crooks is about to uncover a terrorist plot himself.

Alot of different stories about what happened after donovan put his hands in his pocket have emerged. first, nobody found a gun or a weapon on donovan. That is fact. Donovan did nothing wrong. In fact, his father was detained over an unregistered tag. That is fact. Now if donovan jackson was going to put a hit on a cop, i am the fuckin pope.

Donovan was "ATTACKED" by several officers and dragged by his "bling" (a necklace to the ignorant) across the ground by jeremy morse and bijan darvish. He was assaulted by carlos lopez (the sheriff sergeant on scene) as well as all the others. Donovan fearful For his life and knowing he was innocent, struggled to keep free from the Harassment of these pigs. He did nothing wrong. He was afraid of them. They were bigger and threatening HIM. Donovan was hit over the head with a flashlight and punched several times in the head. He was BEATEN by the LA sheriff and inglewood PD. All because his father did not fill some paperwork out at DMV.

This entire time, the man from new zealand (is that fag country) was taking pics of the arrest. Yet he was nowhere to be found once mitchell crooks started shooting the incident. A woman was watching the whole scene and was screaming and yelling during the whole scene. Now this woman is the true hero. She had the presence to yell the keywords out. "Dont resist" & "Stop hurting him" & "help"! she is the true hero of the day! Those keywords gave me the knowledge that pigs were hurting yet another human being. She was also not asked to testify during the trial of jeremy morse? Why? Because the District Attorney is in bed with the Police (fags). They are working together on many issues. Thats why we need a separate police prosecutor to get these pigs when they are out of line. PIGS NEED TO POLICE THEMSELVES! We need alot of extra shit like a police prosecutor and a new justice department. "You are so out bush it's not even funny". You can see my statements on that @ http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/Personal22.html at the october 22 2003 protest against police brutality http://www.october22.org/index.php

So as this woman was screaming I looked out my window and thought it was a fight at the hotel. When she said "RESIST" I knew it was my clue to grab my Sony digital8 camcorder from my backpack. The citizens for police org have stated "why do we pander to these lawless individuals?" I had been on a trip around the divided states of embarrassment. http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/edog/lyrics/2.html or watch the flash movie here http://www.sundanceonlinefilmfestival.com/animation01_15.html
I was traveling around the states to film a documentary about america and it's rave culture. I had no idea the project would turn into a political one.

I raced out to see this woman in panic. She was keeping her kids inside the hotel room so they couldn't see the police terror going on across the street. I flipped open the view finder on my camera and started filming the incident.

When I saw donovan laying there I just started to cringe. I thought "what could he have done to deserve that treatment?" I had no idea he was a child. I thought he was a 19 or 20 something. I was freaked out by the fact that if I was filming police doing wrong I would be targeted next. As I said on my Videotape. http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/iMovieTheater14.html I was told by the woman, you can hear on the tape, "they are not going to come after you". Huh I knew better!
You can see the video for yourself unedited at the above link or at www.noreversal.com

So, as I was filming this "terrorist attack" by police, I thought "they are going to arrest me and punish me for doing so". I was right. More on that later. I was shocked by the coward doing this in broad daylight! There were about 20 witnesses on scene and not one of them was asked to testify at jeremy Morse's first mistrial. The DA is in bed with pigs remember?

So after I videotaped the incident I gave the tape to friends cause I knew the cops would confiscate the tape and that would be the end of that. I also separated the camera from myself and changed my clothes. I knew these foreign backpackers only a little but they knew what they had seen on the videotape was wrong. The pigs came into the hotel and asked alot of people "who was the one who videotaped the incident?" Nobody snitched. Even though 90% of them knew I was the one. I grabbed a heineken and went down by the pool where people are still enjoying their fourth of july weekend. I sure as fuck did! After 912, police were regarded as heroes and shit cause a couple of the died at the trade center. So I reminded the entire world how fucked up our police Still are. haha.

I went to NBC 4 and showed them the tape. They were not interested. Because I had seen police brutality all the time in LA, I thought the media was not going to take on the situation. I went back to the hotel. Later that next day, I had an appointment to see a potential loft in downtown LA. I went to that and on the way back, I went to UPN and thought they would like a copy for the news. I was happy if they showed it. When they offered 150 dollars I was excited. The News director told me to keep the rights and sell it to as many news outlets as possible. Thats when the inglewood PD was informed. I sold this tape for 150 dollars to several local news outlets. Which is a rip-off considering that the guy who videotaped the rodney king video made 50,000 dollars initially. So to those who say I did it for money, "FUCK YOU" I did it cause it should be done. The world wind of media kept calling from all over the world and wanted the permission to show this video.

IF YOU WANNA BLAME SOMEBODY, BLAME THE "RIGHT WING" MEDIA. NOT ME. lol.

So as soon as the police did a search on me and my name they found a misdemeanor warrant for petty theft and Dui. What you do not know, is that the patriot act has been used so many times against people it was not designed to do. For instance, I was arrested in front of CNN for misdemeanor crimes out of placer county. I was staying in a hotel (leparc in west hollywood) when a DA (steve cooley) from LA tried to illegally supeona me on a radio show. He wanted the video. When I refused to give up my location to him he enacted the patriot act. Actually to be even more honest, FBI or "whoever" were parked outside my hotel room w/ headphones on, listening to me and a friend inside the hotel the night before. When I refused to accept this Illegal supeona to testify before the grand jury, I left the hotel for fear of what I saw the night before. I was appearing on BET w/ Ed Gordon That night (w/congresswoman maxine waters). Twice that night and in the morning, my friend was approached in the hotel, by plain clothes and actual officers demanding him to tell me where I was. How did they know where I was? They had to have illegally tapped the land line inside my hotel during the radio interview. I was not registered at the hotel? I then went to a different friends house in long beach when I noticed cops casing his apartment even before we got there! Tell me how they could know this? Later that night after going to a bar, two undercover cops sat next to me and my friend till we left. They left. I stayed at his house all night long and heard people outside his door all night. Then, the next morning I call my original friend on a cell phone and he is scared to death. I call from CNN inside the building on a land line. He had a cell phone. I told him to bring the tape to CNN and the camera because I was to go onto another BET show taping out of the CNN building.

As soon as he showed up, I mean within seconds, I was standing outside smoking. He dropped off the tape and 7 or so plain clothes officers assaulted me and threw me in a unmarked suv w/ tinted windows. CNN later came out and Showed the world my arrest for misdemeanor crimes that WERE NOT IMPORTANT UNTILL Capturing police doing wrong. At least 5 DOCUMENTED times, I was let go cause the warrant was not that big a deal. Now the whole world knows.

So many of these "PIG LOVERS & RACIST TERRORISTS" have pointed out that I stole VCRS from my mom and had a DUI. Why is that important? Because the LADA used this to arrest me. I refused to testify to the grand jury w/o a lawyer. These warrants were not a big deal until I came forward with the tape. That is FACT. I was stopped in sacramento (one county over from Placer county) Albakurkee NM and in New york and by LAPD in fall 2003 for jaywalking by ofc. v.perez. I was let go after being booked at the culver city police department. I have proof. He should be in jail according to DA steve cooleys explanation to the LA city council that it is illegal to let someone go with knowledge of a warrant. I was refused entry to canada because of the warrant and was let go? If this warrant for misdemeanor crimes was so awful then, why didn't they arrest me then? Cause I did not film police brutality till I returned to my home LA. The charges were so PETTY that my mother was upset about the focus being turned onto me and not the pig jeremy morse. I had pawned a VCR that was in my room at my moms house in 1999. The cops had found the pawn slips in my car and trumped the charges in order to secure giving me more time in placer county jail. See I was the victim of a police attack in placer county CA as a youth (16 too?) and they hated me for it. Since I was not at fault (and the officer) they had a deep-seeded hatred towards me. If I had a competent public pretender at the time I would have beat all the charges. I was duly convicted and plead guilty at the first court hearing. (never do that) My lawyers wanted to appeal the original plea to try it again cause the charges were so weak but that would take 6 months or more. I was sentenced to six months in jail for a 0.08% dui and a petty theft w/ prior.

Even tho the LA county jail had a program were they were kicking out inmates w/ misdemeanor crimes, a private jet flew me to placer county jail the day after the LADA and sheriff assaulted me for videotaping their own "terrorists". I was beaten severely by LADA's and handcuffed for 24 hours str8. That is illegal. That is fact. I was refused a visit from my lawyers and kept in a cell handcuffed to the outside of the cell all night. I was hospitalized for my injuries by the LADA.

I had to serve my six month sentence anyways. I was let go on Jan. 4 2003. I have no charges and no probation/fines/classes so that is good. It worked I am no criminal. I had been turning my life around since 1999. I appeared on the TV show 7th heaven 3 times and turned it around. (check out the episode when the oldest son left the show after getting hitched to a Jew.) Even though, the judge couzins wanted to give me 2 years for bringing attention to the most racist jail in amerikka. Placer county is so corrupt. http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/iMovieTheater15.html They have a 92 % white population and have the largest republican county in Califas. They were so pissed off to see the public focusing in me. Congresswoman maxine waters along with democrat candidate al sharpton called them and threatened them that if anything was to happen to me, they would be in serious trouble. So they put me on 23 hour lock-down for 6 months. They said they needed to protect me from White power inmates? These same white power inmates I got along with and were happy to see the pigs in trouble and sweat-in.

So jeremy morse was put on trial at the end of july 2003 (a year after) and was found basically guilty 7 to 5. The jury was not even given a good case but LADA's max huntsman and mikey petterson blew the case on purpose to satisfy the public. The trial was held in a courthouse nowhere near the crime scene in inglewood. The DA called all the defenses witnesses (the cops) and not a single other witness involved. they used the tape but did not supply the jury with ALL THE FACTS. The other officer Bijan darvish who beat donovan jackson was let off because the current footage does not show him beating him. He was charged with filing a false police report. That child abuser jeremy morse goes back on trial in january 2004. The trial was to start oct 22 but was moved yet again.

The media was hoping for a riot and thats the only reason why they even bought my tape in the first place. They were hoping for the bigger picture. They were disappointed that inglewood did not respond by burning their own businesses and homes. This is what the citizens for police (jeremy morse pig lovers) says is the reason for the retrial. "To award a community for not burning their homes down is crazy" is what they and jeremy morse attorney john barnett (defended the rodney king pigs) is saying? That is sooooo ignorant! Barnett argued that the one black man on the original jury resembled donovan too much to be included. What a racist! He thinks all blacks look alike? What a nazi! To think that a retrial is only important because of not burning a house down is so 20 century. You nazi fucks need to come to the realization that jeremy morse crossed the supposed line. He beat a handcuffed 16 year old defenseless child! He was not a danger to these pigs he was a 100 pound child. Jeremy morse is about 220#. WTF? You harping on me and my situation is so funny to me. I am going places and doing whatever the fuck I want. Don't be jealous cause in inglewood you will not get 5 white jurors who will refuse to convict jeremy morse cause of 912. Fuck You. You nazi racist people are so fuckin hilarious to defend such a coward! What's next Ok' in a priest to fuck little children? You fuckin nazi's are powerless http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/Personal22.html you have NO control. Jeremy morse is the one on trial not me.

The LADA might be overmatched (on purpose) by barnett but. not Johnny cochran and milton grimes. Oh yeah jeremy can't afford barnett for that. His mother lori pettit of torrance had to sell her home in Seattle just to pay for her nazi sons mistakes. Boo fuckin hoo. Jeremy morse will be broke and will have to hide in his home forever. I on the other hand have a lawsuit against the LADA and the media that will set me up for life. I have no worries. I am not a criminal. I have turned the corner and jeremy morse is just beginning to have his life turned around.

So to all those who support police no matter what (including the 5 old white jurors) who think that a cop can do no wrong, I say FUCK YOU. You mean shit to me.

You ain't seen nothing yet pigs.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Crooks

PS. Your assumption that donovan was a violent subject is based merely on your hatred towards blacks and young america. You do not know donovan jackson and you do not know what happened before I arrived (yet). You are truly ignorant and hate-mongers. People like you make me so happy I Came forward. The world laughs at you. I really could care less about you or your chickenshit army occupying OUR streets.

http://www.stolenlives.org/
http://www.copwatch.com/
http://refuseandresist.org/
http://www.geocities.com/capa_dfp2001/
http://live.axisofjustice.sparkart.net/
www.noreversal.com
FOR A GOOD LAUGH
http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/Menu1.html
ARTISTIC VERSION IN INGLEWOOD
http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/iMovieTheater11.html
MY WELCOMING BACK TO LA BY SOUTH CENTRAL
http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/iMovieTheater9.html
OCT 22 2003 MARCH AGAINST POLICE TERROR
http://homepage.mac.com/encyte/Personal22.html
THE ONION STATEMENTS
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/07/18031.php

I just came across your lil' rant crying about injustice and saying your gonna come out on top while Jeremy sits in his house cowering. How do you like him now bitch! Living in a fucking brand new huge ass house on a lake. What are you doing? Fuckin meth is what your doing hooked on the shit thats the only reason you were stayin at that crack motel in the first place you can lie to others but I know the truth dipshit. Rave DJ thats some hilarious shit, your talentless kid! You had your 15 minutes of fame because of Jeremy and thank you by the way because of you he doesnt have to work that shit job helping out the thankless peeps of Inglewood and he was offered his job back but said fuck that. Tried twice still walkin HOW YOU LIKE HIM NOW!! Your ass sat in jail longer than he ever did even when he got his dui. Sucks to be you by the way you will never be accepted by those black activist they just used your ass to make a fuss so they can keep recieving their fucking donations. Bitch!!!