Subject: account of arrest at port
From: nikki miller
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 01:35:49 -0700 (PDT)


I was one of the people arrested at the port today. In fact I was the first one 
arrested, as I was crossing the cross walk. I was in motion moving toward the 
sidewalk as the officer snatched me. We were peacefully and lawfully protesting 
the military shipments by holding signs while crossing a crosswalk that had no 
pedestrian traffic signals on marine drive. We did not break any laws!
 
During our arrests, Holly and I were manhandled by officer Watkins of the Olympia 
Police Department, resulting in injury. When I was being arrested, I sat down on 
the ground. Holly put her body over mine and held onto me. Instead of simply 
removing her hands, two police officers proceeded to use cruel and unusual tactics 
to remove her. A thurston county sherrif put his boot on Holly's back. Officer 
Watkins proceeded to pinch the underside of her arm. She has a massive bruise which 
is getting worse than what you will see in the picture. I was drug to the car and 
thrown up against it by Officer Watkins to be searched. Once the back of me had been 
searched by a female police officer, she told him to roll me over. He slammed the 
other side of me onto the police car. He proceeded to do this one more time when 
the search was complete. I have a dull pain starting in my shoulder and continuing 
down into my elbow.
 
We were held for several hours. We were told that we were being held until the 
military convoys had finished coming through. We were never charged or issued a 
ticket.  We were told that we had to give our physical address so that we could 
recieve a summons to court at a later date.
 
We believe we have to stop this war, we have to show our complete rejection of 
the American Empire, we have to show our support for the lives of U.S. troops by 
making it harder for them to be deployed to Iraq, where they will face death, and 
permanent mental and physical scars and at the same time commit crimes against 
humanity.