Police Violence in Houston (janitors strike)

[Omaha Steve]

Run time: 03:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2yelJZ3XRA   Posted on YouTube: April 17, 2015 By YouTube Member: YouTube Help Views on YouTube: 6895150   Posted on DU: November 20, 2006 By DU Member: Omaha Steve Views on DU: 484

 

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4681

Tension between janitors, management, and the police officers that are forced to come between them reached a new level in Houston as four janitors were injured by police horses during a protest. A video on the file sharing network YouTube and also posted on the laborradio.org website, shows a line of workers and their supporters being broken up by police and the workers being pushed to the curb by mounted officers. One thousand seven hundred janitors are entering the fifth week of a strike in Houston protesting low pay and seeking benefits. They clean the office buildings for some of the countries leading companies, such as Chevron Corporation. Chevron and the other companies have been silent and ignored calls from the workers cleaning their buildings to put pressure on the five cleaning companies to pay more than the average of $5.35 per hour with no benefits. The result has been increasingly heated exchanges between city police officers and the workers committing acts of non-violent civil disobedience. Forty-four janitors and their supporters were arrested on Friday. Of the four workers injured by horses, one was an 83-yar-old janitor.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. followup info

The 44 people arrested had a total bond set at $39.1 MILLION

Yup, $39 plus SIX zeroes.

Comes out to $888,888.00 per person.
They were all arrested on a Class B Misdemeanor.

Yet you can kill someone, be charged with murder (5 to 99 years or life) and be out on only $30,000 bond.