Zoe Strauss: Why I Got Arrested
We got all excited and thought it was for upskirt photography. No such luck: She was really just documenting things. Too bad — get a load of the ass on this demolished building!
I was arrested last week for defiant trespass at the
civic center demolition
site. I had apparently walked into the no
trespassing area and was
surrounded by 4 police cars as I went to drive home.
I had a full arrest
with the statement, “You’re locked up, you’re locked
up” made to me many
times and then was handcuffed, frisked, put in the
back of the car and
driven to my holding cell at 40th and Walnut. The
arresting officer was very
pleasant and called Ms. Bloom to tell her that I had
been arrested and she
should order a pizza for dinner since I would be a
while.
The officers were perfectly friendly. Except that
they went through the
entire process of actually arresting me. After close
to 2 hours in my
holding cell, I was released and was informed that I
had to go to court the
next day at 8:30am as I had been charged with
trespass. I mean, are you
fucking kidding me?
Yours in the struggle,
ZS
