An array of bicycles sits in one corner of the first floor at headquarters. Originally, said Danielle Redden, there were 138 skeleton puppets, each to represent a prisoner executed under then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush s administration. Those puppets were proof, she said, that the warehouse was used for props for political expression, not for acts of violence or obstruction a likely key point in civil-rights suits to come. R2K Legal is aiming for those suits. Justice, he said, would be to stop imprisoning poor minorities at the rate they are now.
People deserve financial compensation.
The city cares mainly about money, she said. They hired an insurance firm knowing there would be police brutality. They knew they were going to violate due process. I come from a very conservative Republican Catholic family, said the graduate of Cardinal O Hara High and Villanova University. She spent seven days in jail, then had all misdemeanor charges dropped last month.