Please support DV One and his daughter tomorrow (Wednesday, September 20th)
at the King County Jail on 5th & James in Courtroom #1. This is in Seattle, Washington.

This is at the King County Jail NOT at the King County Courthouse.

It is important that people know that we stand behind DV and won’t tollerate this type of behavior towards him or better yet his 14 year old daughter and any other person who unjustly a victim of a crime. I don’t know what the media criteria is for court, but if Seaspot, Music Inner City, Coolout Network, Hip Hop 101, KEXP, KUBE, KRIZ, Roc TV, On Blast Media, Soulsis Radio, What She Say?, and every other media outlet can get the word out, come down and support, it would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the statement that DV One released today of the incident:

On September 15, 2006 at around 7:30pm I went to memorial stadium to pick up my daughter (Andrea Christian) from her high schools football game at memorial stadium. Upon my arrival I quickly located Andrea and directed her to the car so we could leave. As my daughter walked away (toward the car) I
stayed behind and chatted with a friend briefly before being interrupted by one of Andrea’s friends, Adreianna Holmes.

Adreianna said “Toby, the police have Andrea!” and I should go see what was going on. As I went over to the scene I noticed Andrea being held by the police in an arm lock and being shoved repeatedly against a parked car by a police officer, while another officer stood guard. I approached the scene and was immediately stopped by the female police officer who said I couldn’t go over there with her hands outstretched blocking. I identified myself as the parent of the child being detained and the officer said “so what!”

The female officer then reached for her flashlight and pulled it out. I put my hands up, and backed off saying whoa, whoa, and she responded with “oh so you’re gonna hit me?” and immediately radio’d the all call “officer assaulted” after sending the radio to other officers she proceeded forward rushing in toward me swinging, the officer detaining my daughter pulled out his firearm as more officers swarmed in. I turned my back avoid being shot, hit, or grabbed. I was then slammed to the ground by two officers, handcuffed, kicked in the head (approx 20x), body and limbs repeatedly, berated and tazed at least twice, while already subdued on the ground.

The kicking and stomping of my head and body continued while I was being handcuffed, ridiculed, and humiliated in front of my daughter and many onlookers. Another officer grabbed my hand while I was cuffed pushing my wrist down and shoving my arms upward in some type of judo move, while
telling me he would break my arm for hitting his female officer. I was then left on the ground while being searched and stood over by several police. When I was brought to my feet my shoulder felt dislocated, my face was bloody, my eyes and head extremely swollen, and body bruised from the police beating.

The officers then asked me how I liked being tazed and if it “felt good”. They then told me “this is going to be another felony on your record” and “you’re going to prison now boy”. After that I was rushed to a nearby police car. I was sat down to watch the officer who originally detained my 14 year old daughter proceed to grab, slam, scream and continue to berate her, blame her for what happened to her father.

The situation culminated with Andrea and Adreianna being handcuffed and taken into custody. Andrea is a honor student who recently graduated from St. Therese School, and a first week freshman at Franklin High School. She has no criminal record, respects authority, and goes to school everyday with a big pink tinkerbell backpack. Andrea is clearly not a threat to anyone’s safety, especially the police.

What happened to us that night was an obvious abuse of power. It was unjust, brutal and an easy civil rights violation. My beating and most certainly the abuse received by my daughter was unprovoked and completely unnecessary.

The court date to determine if the prosecutor presses charges is WEDNESDAY 9/20/06 at 2:30pm in the King County Jail BLDG courthouse. Courtroom #1
PLEASE SHOW SUPPORT BY SHOWING UP.. THE PROSECUTOR NEEDS TO SEE THAT THE
COMMUNITY IS WATCHING AND WILL NOT TOLERATE POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACISM.
DONT LET THE NEXT VICTIM BE YOU!

PLEASE FWD THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE WHO YOU FEEL WILL SUPPORT

Those of you that are old enough may remember members of my old crew Ricoh 1 Productions being arrested and falsely accused of a similar crime. My two potnas Karim and Keith were just passing out flyers outside the Lakewood Community Center when they were arrested. The case was settled out of court
with Karim & Keith getting “some” money, and the officers were suspended for a period of time. Ironcially enough, the officer that claimed to have seen the whole thing is currently serving what I believe is a 15 year prison sentence for taking money that was involved in a drug sting.

So again, please support DV One tomorrow (Wednesday, September 20th) at the
King County Jail on 5th & James in Courtroom #1. This is in Seattle, Washington.

This is at the King County Jail NOT at the King County Courthouse.