ACLU of Northern California Statement on Killing of Sean Arlt

Mental health crisis is pretty fucking irrelevant and a NASTY RATIONALIZATION for the fact that two (?) police officers could NOT disarm a man with what's tantamount to a stick and killed him. Further, if all this happened within 20 seconds as the SCPD currently claims, they simply could not have given any effort to mace-dousing him, tasing him, and attempting to disarming him.

I mean, that's not even enough time to discern that he's not responding to orders and flying tackle him. What was he going to do anyway ... take the extra time to 'load' the stick? WTF was the hurry?

And IF he charged the officers with that fully cocked and loaded stick... Well I'd expound here on how incredibly easy it is to take a stick away from someone, but I'll save it and just refer to the officer(s) as cowards.

Instead of these pious comments, referring the whole matter to SCPD Internal Affairs and the police-happy D.A.'s office, how about the ACLU's funding a truly independent investigation itself?
There are plenty of P.I.'s who need work. Memo to Peter Geldblum and Steve Pleich: Let's stop passing the buck to the Northern California ACLU and finally do something at a local level.

...it's pointless to appeal to Pleich and Geldblum.

Geldblum had nothing but buck-passing to northern California's ACLU when I spoke to him Sunday night at the feel-good-do-little Vigil at the Town Clock.

Last Wednesday, Pleich shut down any comment by ACLU members not on the Board of Directors to matters on their agenda. And reportedly took the same attitude towards an actual Board Member trying to raise an issue before the meeting began.

i witnessed the entire thing. i was awake and this happened in front of my house.

an ambulence never came. his body laid in the street for at least 6 hours.

how do they know they could not have saved his life by rendering aid? why didn't they call an ambulence?

there were at least 10 cop cars, even ucsc police were called in, to barracade the road. we could not leave the entire 6-7 hours that he laid in the street with a tent around him.

this was covered up from the beginning and it continues.

i feel terrified. i feel the police are terrorists. these are actions of tyrants from third world countries.