The arrest of Black Live Matter organizer Tianna Arata in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on July 21 is drawing fire from some of the biggest names in hip-hop and entertainment who are expressing outrage at officials who want charges brought against the 20-year-old model and activist.
has reportedly asked District Attorneyto charge Arata with four felony counts of false imprisonment and felony conspiracy, along with three misdemeanor accounts of resisting peace officers, starting a riot and unlawful assembly. The severity of the potential charges have outraged supporters, who say police have no basis to single her out for arrest for any of the charges.
“The police made a decision to arrest her and get her off the street because she was effective at what she was doing,” says Bay Area defense attorney, trial lawyer with the law firm Seville Briggs who successfully defended and won an acquittal for one of the two defendants in the deadly 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Briggs accuses the San Luis Obispo Police Department of making up charges after Arata after she had been arrested.
"Our investigation has already obtained witnesses to suggest that the police have been fabricating these charges, fabricating the vandalism and fabricating victims," Briggs says."This may be one of the few protests in the nation where the organizers were fully cooperative and communicative with the police chief in real time. But because the police chief didn't like the message and that [Arata] was protesting and demonstrating against local police, she decided to retaliate.
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