WTF?! Please keep us updated. This is outrageous. DV is as upstanding a citizen as the make.

We just got back from DV One's hearing. There was an amazing turnout from the Seattle Hip Hop community. Here's what we learned - DV One is being prosecuted for Assult 3, a felony assult charge. His next court date is next Wednesday Sept 27th at 8:30 am at the King Country Courthouse room E1201, 516 3rd avenue, downtown Seattle. Please show up to support. We have seen this type of abuse more than too often. We need to draw the line NOW.

We have also heard that Mayor Greg Nickels has already requested an investigation of the case by the Office of Professional Accountability. This is good, but it will go nowhere unless we demand action.

Please get active. Write to the emails below and

Demand the charges against Toby Christian (DV One) are dropped.
Demand that felony assult charges are brought against The Officers involved in beating Toby and his daughter.
Demand more public oversight of the Seattle Police.

King County Prosecutor (norm.maleng@metrokc.gov); Tom Carr (thomas.carr@seattle.gov); Asst. Chief of Police James Pugel (james.pugel@seattle.gov); David Della (David.Della@Seattle.gov); Nick Licata (Nick.Licata@Seattle.gov); Richard Conlin (conlin@speakeasy.org); Peter Steinbrueck (peter.steinbrueck@seattle.gov); Jean Godden (Jean.Godden@Seattle.gov); Jan Drago (jan.drago@seattle.gov); Richard McIver (richard.mciver@seattle.gov); Sally Clarke (Sally.Clark@seattle.gov);

write the Mayor Greg Nickels at http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/citizen_response.htm

What is Toby's and Andrea's last name? I'm working on emails to Meinert's listed government folk, andI want to be able to refer to him by a name they can track down, rather than his DJ moniker....thanks to whoever can help, and yeah, this is fucking outrageous.

Well, there's my instant answer....thanks, Meinert.

completely fucking outrageous.

forgot one crazy story from the courthosue today. There were about 50-60 DV One supporters there, many African American, some Asian, a few white. As people were walking in, one of the security gaurds sais to the other "we must be giving away something free in there today".

Did the earth's plates shift, and somehow Seattle landed in Mississippi? What the fucking fuck?!??

Musta had it comin to him...

It sounds like there were witnesses to this incident. What are they saying?

Witness accounts of the attack and pictures from today's hearing are currently being compiled. We can probably expect an update from Meinert or other DV-One supporters soon.

This is sickening.

Who was the female officer who started the whole thing? She needs to be fired.

DV called me with this news yesterday and i am still horrified by what he told me. there are many folks in this community that will attest to his character (myself included) and it is encouraging to see a quick mobilization within the music community already taking place.

i hope the stranger will stay on top of this story. my email (detailing DV's story and offering contact info) sent to your news writer, editor, and publisher early this morning went unanswered.

i only hope that means you already had the information needed and that a reporter had been sent to cover the hearing.

Uh-Oh… here’s the dilemma… was the female cop incompetent or was the black man “askin for it”? How will the politically correct community resolve this…

(For me the answer is obvious… what do you expect when you give a woman a gun?)

maybe she was a kc sheriff's deputy?

bu dum ching!

Kerri- Larry Mizell is on it and any further information you or others have can be directed to him at:

hiphop@thestranger.com

A better email for Larry: gatsby360@yahoo.com.

larry is the guy. i am confident he will get the story. thanks, fellas.

I'm guessing a lot of the cops who patrol the city of Seattle didn't grow up in Seattle. They are recruited from many small Washington towns and end up serving in the “big city”. I would love to know the actual recruitment stats. A couple weeks of “sensitivity training” is not enough to overcome years of small town/small minded bigotry. Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse as to why the Seattle police department behaves time and time again like they are afraid of black people. I spent the last year living in Bed-Sty Brooklyn and I never saw anything as ridiculous as this go down there.
Maybe it's because Nickel's goes to bed at night dreaming of ways he can make Seattle the best city ever for rich white people. Ugh

Oh and hey Dave, what's up?

what was the daughter originally detained for?

"You're going to prison now boy"
--Birmingham, 1963 or Seattle, 2001! Maybe they do recruit young rednecks from the small towns.

By the way, have the local news stations been notified about this police brutality incident? I haven't seen anything on the news about this incident.

An SPD beatdown of an unarmed African American male in Seattle is not news, it happens too often for it to be news. If it was news on any of the major outlets, it would be about how DV assaulted a female officer, not how multiple armed thugs beatdown a 14 year old girl and her dad.

Just be sure to write to the politicians. They can do something about this, but need to know they have the political cover. The Police Union is a very, very powerful political force in Seattle. They are probably the most influential single lobbying group. But if the community bands together we should be able to see some justice here, and end up with better public oversight of the SPD.

If Norm Maleng does not drop these charges I think we should promote a serious write-in campaign challenging him in the upcoming election.

First violation of rights are the violation of Andrea's right to have a parent present while being quesitoned by an officer.

If this had been a white Dad approaching the cops talking to his daughter, the cop would've gave the daughter one of those, "Oooh, here comes your dad, let's see what he has to say about this. I'll bet you're in real deep shit now, kiddo." then he would've greet ed the dad, maybe even with a handshake and the father's question of, "What's going on" would've been met with something like, "Andrea, care to tell your father what's going on?" or a prompt and professional summary of the events.

The fact that Toby was immediately taken out of the scenario as a parental figure and treated like a cohort speaks volumes about the humongous chasm that exists between SPD and the city's disproportionately small black population. The cops involved in this incident, particularly the female cop and the one questioning Andrea are clearly undertrained and undereducated. They responded to a simple, harmless situation with fear, insensitiviy and an overreaching abuse of authority.

I'm sure we all want these charges against DV dropped and an investigation into the responging officers misconduct to set an example once and for all. True this happens all the time, but it could be a blessing in disguise that this happened to someone as respected and loved throughout the city if Seattle if it draws proper attention and results in a positive outcome.

If not, it's just one more step towards making this place Valhalla.

Once again, Meinert provides no facts or details, just hyperbole, paranoia and unsubstantiated allegations (how ironic).

The latest step in his long march towards becoming the next Richard Lee. Check out the links below (one from the voters guide and one from the Stranger). The parallels are stunning.

http://www.seattle.gov/ethics/el05a/report/vpp/leeric.htm

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=12653

That's pretty mild for Richard Lee. He almost sounds sensible. To get the full experience you really need to see his swiveling head and his incredible foot-and-sky focused camera work, and hear his whispery conspiracy voice. My all time favorite was a segment on his show where he was interviewing fellow lunatic Stan Lippman oustide the Council chambers, both of them with eyes bugging out, both of them looking as if they were SURE that giant flying insects were going to swoop down and carry them off to Courtney Love's secret mountain redoubt any second.

Meinert's got a LONG way to go to get to there.

Police in Seattle taught me all of my life to never respect authority. I am a 31 yo white woman and have seen and been involved with many police incidents in my life. Protect and serve MY ASS, more like BEAT and BELITTLE, females shouldnt be cops anyway way too many emotions and no knowledge on how to handle situations.