Drone Protester Found Not-Guilty
| 17 Sep 2014: posted by the editor - United States | |
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Report by droneaction.org Ms. Tetaz had been arrested on 28 April 2013, along with 30 others as she stood reading aloud Preamble to the UN Charter and the First Amendment of the Constitution on the edge of the driveway leading into the Hancock Reaper drone base on East Molloy Rd., Town of De Witt. The prosecution’s video of Ms Tetaz’ arrest showed the arresting officer grabbing those documents from her hands and tossing them aside. When police ordered her to stop, Ms Tetaz continued her reading aloud, facing the base, thereby expressing her First Amendment right to peacefully ‘petition my government for redress of grievances’— i.e. the war crimes being committed by the weaponized Reaper drone robots piloted over Afghanistan by the Hancock Attack Wing. Ms. Tetaz’ trial is one of the ongoing series of trials of those arrested on 28 April 2013 scheduled through spring of 2015. Many will be jury trials due to the misdemeanor charge of obstruction of government administration. The next jury trial—that of Bronx Catholic Worker Mark Colville—will begin at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, 18 September. Tags: anti-war protest, drones, Hancock Air Base |
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