Calendar You can post trial dates, events, meetings, etc. on the R2K calendar . R2K Legal Court Update Motion arguments continue concerning the van case and the puppet cases. These motions concern outrageous police misconduct, prior restraint and possession of an implement of crime. Today we heard testimony from Lt. Bivens who was coordinating the undercover operation and the director of License and Inspections who was in conducted the massacre of the puppets and the destruction of property following the police raid.
Tomorrow there is likely to be other testimony from the other undercover agents.
Hopefully by Friday the defense will present it's argument. One of the major tactics of the prosecution is to portray us, the activists who came to Philadelphia to protest the RNC and the criminal injustice system, as a group with no message. They continue to try to discredit our activities as having nothing to do with the first amendment. The undercover state troopers are testify that even while being in the puppet warehouse they were unaware of any purpose to our day of direct action. With the motion argument today two defendants went on trial who were arrested at the puppet warehouse on August 2nd.