Report WTO Incidents:

Report Police Misconduct to the ACLU

 

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is closely monitoring police treatment of WTO protesters and residents of Seattle. We are looking for incidents of police action against citizens that have occurred during the WTO conference.

We need personal reports of any of the following activities - if they happened to you or if you were a witness:
  • Unprovoked physical aggression by police: shoving, kicking, hitting with billyclubs, overly forceful restraint
  • Use of pepper spray, tear gas, CS gas, shots of rubber bullets against non-violent protesters or onlookers either without warning or in excess
  • Being pursued or chased by police when trying to flee or disperse
  • Encountering any of these activities as a bystander or within an area that is NOT a designated "no-protest zone"
  • Or other unreasonable restrictions on your civil liberties

We need details on what happened to you or what you witnessed. Please contact the ACLU of Washington right away:

Fill out an online complaint form at WWW.ACLU-WA.ORG

If no web access, call the ACLU Complaint and Referral Line 206-624-2180
ACLU of Washington
705 Second Avenue, Suite 300

Seattle, Washington 98104

Call for Declarations

Following the outrageous examples of police misconduct that occurred, National Lawyers Guild, (the group that had legal observers at every demonstration) has begun collecting declarations. If you witnesses or experienced police misconduct or abuse, please take a moment to fill out one of our forms. They are available on the web at :

www.infosubway.org/infosubway/wto/index.html
or

www.nlg.org/wto

You can leave email messages at paulr@u.washington.edu

phone is (206) 621-5820, or (206) 988-8881

National Lawyers Guild
PO Box 9550
Seattle, WA, 98109

If you're interested in tabling please contact therivel@u.washington.edu.

Thanks,
Paul Richmond
National Lawyers Guild