Mmmmm, sounds rather extrange...

9/20 Laguna Beach, CA: Cops Arrest--Then Release--The Day Labor Attackers, But Still Pursuing Charges Against Anti-Minutemen Protester!



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We Suggest you to contact Susan Schroeder Orange County District Attorney's Office, ask the:



1) Why they release these two attackers when the Laguna Day Labor Center had been repeatedly attacked and harassed by Minutemen/KKK Groups? Why they actively file charges against the peaceful anti-Minutemen protester Kurt Isobe? (see above)



2) If they will file any charges against the attackers?



County District Attorney's Office, Tel: (714) 834-3600







D.A. Delays Decision On Filing In Laborer Attack

September 20, 2006

CBS News



http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_263190407.html



(CBS) LAGUNA BEACH , Calif. Prosecutors have delayed a decision on whether to file charges against two young men arrested for allegedly assaulting several day laborers at a Laguna Beach hiring center, an official said Wednesday.



"We sent it (the case) back for further investigation," said Susan Schroeder of the Orange County District Attorney's Office.



Artem Soloviev, 23, and Dennis Kaptilniy, 18, were arrested Sunday and booked at the Orange County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and a hate crime, police said.



The delay in filing charges meant the pair were released from jail.



Prosecutors normally have 48 hours, or two court days, to file charges if arrestees do not post bail and remain behind bars, Schroeder said.



If no charges are filed within that time, arrestees are released and an arrest warrant is issued if and when charges are filed, Schroeder said.



Additional investigation can take weeks, but at the maximum, prosecutors have as long as a crime's statute of limitations, which is about three years for many felonies, Schroeder said.



Soloviev and Kaptilniy allegedly assaulted several day laborers at a hiring center and then plowed their car through the parking lot of the Day Labor Hiring Site at 1690 Laguna Canyon Road , hitting two workers while shouting

racial insults, police said.



Several people called Laguna Beach police around 9:12 a.m. to report the men driving the black Toyota , police said.



Witnesses said the men pulled into the hiring center parking lot and tried to hire a worker. When the worker rejected the terms of the job, he and a friend were allegedly assaulted by Soloviev and Kaptilniy, police said.



The suspects then fled the scene, only to return moments later speeding through the area. Witnesses were forced to jump out of the vehicle's path as the suspects continued to circle the parking lot, striking two workers as well

as metal lunch tables and a chain-link fence.



The initial assault victim was taken to a hospital for treatment.



Day laborers and their supporters gathered at the center Tuesday to denounce the alleged attack.











9/15: Orange County D.A. Seeks to Prosecute Garden Grove Demonstrator Found Innocent (LA IMC)

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/178739.php


Kurt Isobe, one of the Garden Grove 5, who was found innocent of charges of throwing cans, is still stuck in the court system for allegedly resisting arrest and interfering with police officers. He is due back in court on Sept 18th.

Others arrested and charged at the Garden Grove demonstration against the Minutemen were found not guilty, or took plea bargains for lesser charges, but Isobe decided to fight the false charges, in the name of justice. The system, however, has pursued charges against him, despite the jury's clear finding that Isobe did not commit the most serious and concrete acts charged against him.

To help defray legal expenses a benefit concert on Sept. 16th from 2 to 5 pm will be held at Union Center for the Arts, 120 Judge John Aiso St., featuring Warren and Lisa Furutani, George Abe, Kiyoshi Graves, Miwa Lyric, the Afro-Cuban All Stars from J-Flats, and Kyoko. Donations can be made to the Kurt Isobe Support Committee.





Recent News on Laguna Beach Day Labor Center



7/17: Laguna Beach: Minutemen drop their mask (LA IMC)

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/168944.php



LAGUNA BEACH, 15 July 2006--The minutemen were mean. Just sheer, ugly, dog-biting mean. One of them had discovered the Laguna Beach Day Labor Center was on state land but, just days later, on July 11, the City of Laguna Beach leased the land from the state to keep the center open. The minutemen came to Laguna Beach to protest their defeat, at a day labor center that has been a hotspot over the past year between immigrant supporters and deportation mongers. But the City had already made up its mind. And the minutemen had lost before they even began.....





7/1: Laguna Day Labor Center Ordered Closed (LA IMC)
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/166846.php





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