Sisters and Brothers,

Be prepared for a MASSIVE letter writing campaign to protest the
horrendous treatment that has been happening to Oso Blanco! Oso filed
legal action for a June 24th assault and a week later on November 7th
he was brutally assaulted and tortured. This is horrific and
unacceptable! His Native rights were broken and he was humiliated in
an unprovoked act of prison terrorism, along with his cell mate.

PASS THIS STATEMENT AROUND EVERYWHERE AND BE PREPARED FOR A LETTER
WRITING CAMPAIGN.

JUSTICE FOR OSO BLANCO!

-Sinapu, Mapache,
Arcata Anarchist Black Cross
Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross

The following is Oso Blanco's account of what happened:

On Nov/07/09 at Hour of 11:00am myself and my cellie were assaulted by
Lt. Galletta and Lt. Sassaman and many staff. We were shot, gassed
with a Rapid Fire pepperball gun – same as a paint ball gun but with
pepper agent powder inside not paint. Then we were sprayed with
ocaagent alot. I cuffed up and was being shot and gassed anayway. My
cellie coyote hardly had time to cuff up and they started shooting us
in the cell. Its very painful then they stopped shooting so my cellie
came to the door and cuffed up. They put us in a freezing cold cell
and they then cam and rushed in(goon squad) the cell and took us to a
mop closet where they forced my head back as the guard was digging his
fingers under my side jaw bone, pulling my head back, and 7 or 8 were
holding my arms, legs – they squirted hot water on my face and up my
nose. I let out a native war cry scream and yelled to all the men here
to stay strong! This was all on camera. They then took me on camera to
the four point cell where its very cold and stripped me naked and put
very, very, very tight restraints on me. Locking the bellie chain and
black box cuffs down to the bone. I told Lt. Sassamen what, “What
you're doing to me is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a
violation of my human rights! It's wrong and evil what you are doing
to me!” All on Camera. Sovereign Cherokee Nation citizen have the full
protection of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Then they held
me down on the cement table and PA Potter cut off 4 inches of my
ponytail braid. This is and illegal act and crime committed against an
enrolled Natie American! To cut off part of my ponytial. And a great
insult!

We were left in separate freezing cold cells in tigh restraints
cutting into our wrists for 9 hours. After the 4th hour a dark Lt. a
Spanish Lt. came and told my cellie across the hall we were being
charged with assaulting Lt. Galletta, that he was in the hospital and
the FBI would be coming to see us. And he gave me a flase charge –
writeup for a weapon.