{"article":{"id":204224,"heading":"Defend free speech! Attend Coyot Tezcatlipoca's criminal trial, Aug. 15th","author":"Civil Liberties","created":"2007-08-13 13:32:13","modified":"2007-08-13 23:09:17","last_modified":"Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:09:17","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>==================================== <br>  <br> SUPPORT COYOTL TEZCATLIPOCA AT HIS <br>  <br> CRIMINAL TRIAL STARTING AUGUST 15TH <br>  <br> ==================================== <br><br> At the Tuesday, January 3, 2006 meeting of the Costa <br>  <br> Mesa City Council, Mayor Allan Mansoor, a Minuteman <br>  <br> supporter and a proponent of merging local law <br>  <br> enforcement with immigration duties, abruptly cut off <br>  <br> Coyotl Tezcatlipoca, a critic of that proposal, during <br>  <br> public comments, even though he had about 40 seconds <br>  <br> left to speak. <br><br> Although Mayor Mansoor claims he did this because <br>  <br> Tezcatlipoca violated \"rules\" that forbid speakers <br>  <br> from asking members of the audience to stand up, he <br>  <br> allowed Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist <br>  <br> to do the exact same thing early on at the same <br>  <br> meeting: in fact, video footage shows that Mansoor <br>  <br> thanked him for what he did! <br><br> Shortly after Tezcatlipoca was cut off, then-Police <br>  <br> Chief John Hensley ordered his officers to <br>  <br> forcibly remove Tezcatlipoca from the room while <br>  <br> the meeting was not legally in session -- this <br>  <br> despite the fact he was fully complying with their <br>  <br> orders asking him to leave. <br><br> Video footage shot of the incident and numerous <br>  <br> witnesses allege that Tezcatlipoca was choked, hit, <br>  <br> kicked, and sat upon by several policemen. Then, after <br>  <br> they finished physically assaulting him, the cops had <br>  <br> the audacity of booking him on a charge of resisting <br>  <br> arrest! <br><br> Although the Orange County District Attorney's Office <br>  <br> declined to file any criminal charges against <br>  <br> Tezcatlipoca, the Costa Mesa City Prosecutor has <br>  <br> charged him with violating two provisions of the <br>  <br> municipal code, both misdemeanor criminal offenses <br>  <br> punishable by up to six months in jail and\/or a $1,000 <br>  <br> fine. <br><br> This case highlights the absurdity of Orange County's <br>  <br> backward system of criminal justice in the era of <br>  <br> Minutemen: Tezcatlipoca is facing prosecution for <br>  <br> offenses that were committed against him by police and <br>  <br> government officials! <br><br> Defend the right of free speech! Show your solidarity <br>  <br> with Tezcatlipoca by attending his upcoming criminal <br>  <br> trial! <br><br> REMEMBER: AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! <br><br> WHEN? <br><br> Wednesday, August 15, 2007 <br>  <br> 8:30 a.m. <br><br> WHERE? <br><br> Harbor Justice Center <br>  <br> 4601 Jamboree Road <br>  <br> Newport Beach, California <br><br> Please arrive early for good seating. <br><br> Check the court calendar for the name, \"Benito <br>  <br> Acosta,\" to find out which courtroom Coyotl <br>  <br> Tezcatlipoca's trial will be held in. <br><br> See following map for directions: <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=4601\">http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=4601<\/a>+Jamboree+Road,+Newport+Beach,+CA+92 <br><br> For more info, please contact: <br>  <br> <a href=\"mailto:libertad200797@gmail.com\">libertad200797@gmail.com<\/a> <br><br> =============== <br>  <br> INFO ABOUT CASE <br>  <br> =============== <br><br> See article entitled \"Criminal Trial for Costa Mesa <br>  <br> Activist\" on the front page of the August 2007 issue <br>  <br> of The Orange Coast Voice. <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocvoice.com\/OC_VOICE\/Home\/OCV%20-%20August%202007.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ocvoice.com\/OC_VOICE\/Home\/OCV%20-%20August%202007.pdf<\/a> <br><br> See video shot by a Minuteman Supporter of Coyotl <br>  <br> being forcibly removed by police from Costa Mesa City <br>  <br> Council Chambers at the January 3, 2006 meeting: <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrationwatchdog.com\/media\/costamesa\/bad_2.wmv\">http:\/\/www.immigrationwatchdog.com\/media\/costamesa\/bad_2.wmv<\/a> <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrationwatchdog.com\/media\/costamesa\/bad_2.mov\">http:\/\/www.immigrationwatchdog.com\/media\/costamesa\/bad_2.mov<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"This case highlights the absurdity of Orange County's backward system of criminal justice in the era of Minutemen: Tezcatlipoca is facing prosecution for offenses that were committed against him by police and government officials!","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2007\/08\/113340.jpgqwfhmv.jpg","filesize":"22.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2007\/08\/204224.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2007\/08\/113340.jpgqwfhmv.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2007\/08\/113340.jpgqwfhmv.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":204242,"heading":"God damned honkey pigs","article":"These hate filled pigs are the same piles of Christian shit that smashed &quot;upity niggers&quot; in decades past.  Now the current cause of all of America's economic problems is the brown skinned once again in the eyes of god damned pigs across the country.\r\n","author":"Fredric L. Rice","parent_id":204224,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-08-13 23:12:14","modified":"2007-08-13 23:12:14","fileurl":""}]}