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Prison official witnesses
contradict themselves; more video proof.
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Lt Mozier testified
today that he did not order pepper spray and "no one was sprayed,"
yet the video of the debriefing after Andre Jacob's extraction, played just
after his testimony shows him saying, "OC [pepper spray] was applied to
the front and back of the cell."
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That and Lt Mozier
saying only "OK" twice, without issuing further orders leading up to
the extraction lends credence to Andre's defense that the cell extraction was
planned ahead and staged.
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The video of the
debriefing after Carrington Keys' extraction shows that nowhere does Lt Mozier
say that feces was flung, as previously stated by the 6 guards. Nowhere can you
see feces on the uniforms or shields of the same guards, and all the officers
report "no injuries sustained" and "no concerns."
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Lt Martin testified,
"I don't remember Captain Wilson asking to speak to the defendants" (during
the investigation into the "riot" charge) while Captain Wilson had
said in his testimony that the men told Lt Martin that they wouldn't "effing"
speak to him.
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Captain Bromsburg
contradicted himself and other testimony that cell extraction always happens
when prisoners refuse to comply with orders to remove the covers from the
windows when he said that "every situation is different, every lieutenant
is different."
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Bromsburg also said
he didn't remember that when he was at SCI Mahanoy, 17 inmates covered their
cell doors but none of them were extracted, that he had ordered only misconduct
charges.
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Those two statements
are significant because the prosecution is saying that the men knew that cell
extraction would be the result of their actions and that they were coercing
officials to extract them and therefore it is a "Riot".
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Robin Lucas, Asst
to the Superintendent, who herself was named in a lawsuit from Andre Jacobs,
read out loud a letter from HRC outlining the torture Andre experienced and his
request to be separated from named prison officials.
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Video from a fixed
camera during the cell extraction showed Dep. Superintendent Mooney making a hand
gesture which appeared to mimic firing a handgun, which he said was just to
signal that their fire suppression equipment needed attention.
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The prosecution produced
prison logs stating that in April the prisoners had been contacted by their
"counselors" and there were “no complaints”, that therefore the
prisoners hadn't utilized a complaint channel open to them, while the
defendants said they made official, written complaints directly to the
pertinent authorities every chance they got, that counselors don't have
authority over those matters and that one counselor serves 90-100 prisoners. Carrington raised that his mother and Pastor
had been calling on his behalf.
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Attorney Wiseman
got Deputy Mooney to agree that by asking to speak to an attorney, Duane Peters
was making an attempt at dialogue and the psychologist on their hostage negotiating
team could have responded to that and sought to break the impasse without cell
extraction/use of force.
ANYONE WHO CAN ATTEND THE FINAL DAY THE TRIAL PLEASE CONTACT US!
WE URGENTLY NEED AS MANY SUPPORTERS AS POSSIBLE TO BE PRESENT IN THE COURTROOM ESPECIALLY TO HEAR THE CLOSING STATEMENTS AND THE VERDICT.
WE URGENTLY NEED AS MANY SUPPORTERS AS POSSIBLE TO BE PRESENT IN THE COURTROOM ESPECIALLY TO HEAR THE CLOSING STATEMENTS AND THE VERDICT.
Now is the time to help these brave prisoner whistleblowers win a major victory for prisoners across Pennsylvania and across the US
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