UCPD And Feds Ransack Berkeley Activist Community Center

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, August 27, 2008

<http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/27/18530389.php>UCPD and
Feds Raid Long Haul Infoshop
Wed Aug 27 2008

UCPD And Feds Ransack Berkeley Activist Community Center
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/27/18530407.php
<http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/27/18530389.php>
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  At around 10:30am, 5-6 Officers made there way into the Long Haul
Infoshop and broke down every door and stole every single computer on
the property. Computers taken including those used by the
<http://slingshot.tao.ca/>Slingshot collective and
<http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=317722886>East
Bay Prisoner Support. The police also raided cabinets, cut locks and
scattered sorted mail.

People arrived after being informed of the situation, and demanded
that the police show a warrant. The police said they would show one
once they were done, and they did. Both
<http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/>CopWatch and
<http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/>The Berkeley Daily Planet were
there to cover the incident. The departments involved were 4 UC
Berkeley cops, 1 Alameda County Sheriff, and 1 Federal agent. The
police never explained the reason for the raid other than that the
computer equipment "may have been used to commit a felony". This is
the first time the infoshop has been raided.

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