Event: Family & Friends to Hold Rally for Mitrice Richardson on Saturday, November 28
BIKE RIDE AND RALLY IN SUPPORT OF FINDING MITRICE RICHARDSON
FROM: http://www.jasmynecannick.com
Over 100 Bikers to Ride 65 Miles from Marina Del Rey to Malibu and Back to South L.A. on the 72nd Day into the Disappearance of Mitrice Richardson
WHO:
Michael Richardson, father of Mitrice Richardson, over 100 bikers and two-dozen African-American motorcycle clubs, supporters, volunteers, friends, and family members of Mitrice Richardson, various community leaders and elected officials.
WHAT:
Bike Ride and Rally in Support of Finding Mitrice Richardson
WHEN:
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Rally – 11 a.m.
Ride – 12 p.m.
WHERE:
Rally – Bartels’ Harley-Davidson
4141 Lincoln Blvd. Marina Del Rey
Ride Route – Bikers will leave from Bartels’ Harley-Davidson via Lincoln Blvd. to Pacific Coast Highway and travel to Malibu Canyon Road. Bikers will then travel Hwy 101 to the I-110 Freeway to South Los Angeles. The entire route is 65 five miles.
MORE INFORMATION:
LOS ANGELES – Saturday, November 28, day 72 into the disappearance of Mitrice Richardson, who mysteriously disappeared following her September 17 predawn release from a sheriff’s substation near Malibu where she was booked for allegedly failing to pay a restaurant bill, family, friends, and supporters of Mitrice Richardson will hold a rally in support of finding her. In addition, over 100 bikers from various South Los Angeles motorcycle clubs, will caravan to Malibu where Mitrice first went missing.
A Cal State Fullerton graduate who was living with her great-grandmother in South Los Angeles, Mitrice Richardson mysteriously disappeared following her September 17 predawn release from a sheriff’s substation near Malibu where she was booked for allegedly failing to pay a restaurant bill.
A $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to her safe return.
www.bringmitricehome.org
Rally Regarding Policy & Procedure of Releasing Mitrice Richardson
On August 24th 2009 Mitrice & I were to attend a Motorcycle Class together at Fullerton Junior College. I was offered a new position and asked could she wait to the following week. She was so anxious and couldn't wait because she had received her income tax and was ready to buy her bike. I regret not being able to take the class with her, but know she would love this biker rally. If you are unable to attend, be there in Spirit, and Faith. Write about it, Talk About it, Blog, Tweet, Text and Broadcast about it! Just show your support as it provide me the Strength, and Courage I need to continue in her search
-Michael Richardson, Father
11 a.m.
Bike Ride and Rally for Mitrice Richardson
Bartels’ Harley-Davidson
4141 Lincoln Blvd.
Marina Del Rey
Over 100 bikers and two-dozen African-American motorcycle clubs, supporters, volunteers, friends, and family will will take off from Bartels’ to Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu Canyon Road to Hwy 101 to 110 Freeway to South Los Angeles. The entire route is 65 five miles.
To get involved and volunteer at this event, please email mvrichardson@bringmitricehome.org
Download Flyer For Rally
http://www.bringmitricehome.org/Downloads.html
-Michael Richardson, Father
11 a.m.
Bike Ride and Rally for Mitrice Richardson
Bartels’ Harley-Davidson
4141 Lincoln Blvd.
Marina Del Rey
Over 100 bikers and two-dozen African-American motorcycle clubs, supporters, volunteers, friends, and family will will take off from Bartels’ to Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu Canyon Road to Hwy 101 to 110 Freeway to South Los Angeles. The entire route is 65 five miles.
To get involved and volunteer at this event, please email mvrichardson@bringmitricehome.org
Download Flyer For Rally
http://www.bringmitricehome.org/Downloads.html
L.A. Times: A missing woman and the law’s lost compassion
From Jasmyne Cannick
http://www.jasmynecannick.com/blog/?p=7481
* November 23, 2009 | 51 Views |
L.A. Times: A missing woman and the law’s lost compassion
The disappearance of Mitrice Richardson after being released from a sheriff’s substation underscores the need for better procedures to ensure suspects’ safety.
November 23, 2009
Twenty-four-year-old Mitrice Richardson of South Los Angeles walked out of the Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff’s station in the wee hours of Sept. 17 and has been missing ever since. Sheriff Lee Baca insists that deputies followed procedures to the letter: Richardson, who was accused of refusing to pay her bill at a high-end Malibu restaurant and possessing a small amount of marijuana, insisted on leaving after being booked and released, despite invitations to spend the night in an empty cell or in the station’s lobby. Deputies at the station had declared her safe to go because she didn’t appear to be a threat to herself or anyone else. Nevertheless, the fact remains that she was 40 miles from home in the dead of night with no purse, cash or cellphone, no buses available for hours, and her car locked in a garage she couldn’t pay.
If that’s following procedures to the letter, something’s wrong with the procedures. Even if deputies acted as reasonably as Baca asserts, the implication is that the department’s responsibility to “safely” release people it takes into custody ends the moment they leave its property.
That’s certainly a pragmatic stance. As Baca’s report to the Board of Supervisors notes, deputies process 180,000 prisoners a year for release — that’s nearly 500 a day — and detaining someone for too long carries “tremendous liability.” Special steps are taken only for those “deemed to have medical or mental disabilities.” But as Richardson’s disappearance demonstrates, the department’s blithe lack of concern about people after they walk out the door may be creating new and unnecessary dangers.
The Orange County sheriff’s approach may not be a model for L.A. County, given the differences in size, but it’s still instructive. Rather than taking people to the closest station to be booked and released, Orange County deputies bring everyone to a jail with easy access to public transportation. And unlike their counterparts in L.A., they have health department workers on hand around the clock to look people over before release. That might have been useful in Malibu, considering reports that Richardson had sounded “crazy” and was acting erratically.
The Sheriff’s Department can’t be a taxi service, and the people it arrests have to be responsible for their own welfare once they’re released. Yet the department shouldn’t ignore the difficulties imposed on those it hauls off for booking. Policymakers should explore ways to ensure that people booked after hours with no way to get home, like Richardson, have options — for example, a shuttle to a public transportation hub or easy access to their car. In limited cases, such as when witnesses see signs of mental illness, it may even be wise to hold suspects until morning. A few extra hours of inconvenience is a reasonable trade-off for avoiding tragedy.
http://www.jasmynecannick.com/blog/?p=7481
* November 23, 2009 | 51 Views |
L.A. Times: A missing woman and the law’s lost compassion
The disappearance of Mitrice Richardson after being released from a sheriff’s substation underscores the need for better procedures to ensure suspects’ safety.
November 23, 2009
Twenty-four-year-old Mitrice Richardson of South Los Angeles walked out of the Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff’s station in the wee hours of Sept. 17 and has been missing ever since. Sheriff Lee Baca insists that deputies followed procedures to the letter: Richardson, who was accused of refusing to pay her bill at a high-end Malibu restaurant and possessing a small amount of marijuana, insisted on leaving after being booked and released, despite invitations to spend the night in an empty cell or in the station’s lobby. Deputies at the station had declared her safe to go because she didn’t appear to be a threat to herself or anyone else. Nevertheless, the fact remains that she was 40 miles from home in the dead of night with no purse, cash or cellphone, no buses available for hours, and her car locked in a garage she couldn’t pay.
If that’s following procedures to the letter, something’s wrong with the procedures. Even if deputies acted as reasonably as Baca asserts, the implication is that the department’s responsibility to “safely” release people it takes into custody ends the moment they leave its property.
That’s certainly a pragmatic stance. As Baca’s report to the Board of Supervisors notes, deputies process 180,000 prisoners a year for release — that’s nearly 500 a day — and detaining someone for too long carries “tremendous liability.” Special steps are taken only for those “deemed to have medical or mental disabilities.” But as Richardson’s disappearance demonstrates, the department’s blithe lack of concern about people after they walk out the door may be creating new and unnecessary dangers.
The Orange County sheriff’s approach may not be a model for L.A. County, given the differences in size, but it’s still instructive. Rather than taking people to the closest station to be booked and released, Orange County deputies bring everyone to a jail with easy access to public transportation. And unlike their counterparts in L.A., they have health department workers on hand around the clock to look people over before release. That might have been useful in Malibu, considering reports that Richardson had sounded “crazy” and was acting erratically.
The Sheriff’s Department can’t be a taxi service, and the people it arrests have to be responsible for their own welfare once they’re released. Yet the department shouldn’t ignore the difficulties imposed on those it hauls off for booking. Policymakers should explore ways to ensure that people booked after hours with no way to get home, like Richardson, have options — for example, a shuttle to a public transportation hub or easy access to their car. In limited cases, such as when witnesses see signs of mental illness, it may even be wise to hold suspects until morning. A few extra hours of inconvenience is a reasonable trade-off for avoiding tragedy.
IN THE CASE OF MITRICE RICHARDSON: Black People: It's Time to Nut Up or Shut Up! (November 12, 2009)
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IN THE CASE OF MITRICE RICHARDSON: Black People: It's Time to Nut Up or Shut Up!
(November 12, 2009)
http://eurweb.com/story/eur57373.cfm
*On any other occasion, had the Los Angeles Police Department arrested and booked a young Black female and then let her go in the middle of the night without her purse, car, or cell phone, in the middle of nowhere never to be seen again-Black people would be screaming off with their heads.
We'd probably be ready to burn down police headquarters if the same law enforcement agency then took its sweet ass time in providing a police report-a police report that was clearly altered and amended-that would normally take 24 hours to secure and refused to provide video of the young Black female either entering or leaving the police station-only to tell the media 8 weeks later, that a tape doesn't exist.
So then can someone please tell me why the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department continues to get a pass for the mishandling and mistreatment of 24-year-old missing Mitrice Richardson?
The facts in the case are simple. On the evening of September 16 Mitrice Richardson was in Malibu at a restaurant. A call was made to the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's station that she was acting "crazy" and couldn't pay her bill. The sheriff's searched her car and found some marijuana for personal use and arrested her. She was allegedly released from the sheriff's station a little after midnight on September 17 without her car, purse, or cell phone never to be heard from again.
In the past 55 days since Mitrice was last seen, the family has repeatedly made attempts to secure any video proving that Mitrice actually left the sheriff's station. Because quite frankly, it's just the sheriff's word that Mitrice left the station and I've watched enough "Law & Order" to know that the first suspect is always the last person known to be with the victim. In this case, that would be the Malibu-Lost Hill's Sheriff's Department.
Now if I were Sheriff Lee Baca, agenda item number one would be clearing my deputies of any wrong doing. So if that meant furnishing the videotape of Mitrice entering and/or exiting the Malibu-Lost Hill's Sheriff's station, well then so be it. If the video in question didn't exist, what I wouldn't do is string along the family for weeks allowing them to think there was a video. And I certainly wouldn't let the news of there being no video appear in a small Malibu newspaper before telling the family. But that's exactly what the sheriff's did.
So here we are nearly two months later and there are more questions than answers as it relates to the disappearance of the Cal State Fullerton graduate who lived in Watts with her great-grandmother. And yet nothing from a community that normally looks for police brutality and mistreatment in the same way our Mayor looks for news cameras- on a daily basis 24/7.
There's been no outcry from the NAACP, SCLC, Urban League, or other community advocate organizations that we typically see and here from in the media when an injustice has been committed against African-Americans. And I find myself asking why?
I mean if there was ever a clear case of police misconduct all wrapped up with a bow on it just waiting to be exposed, the disappearance of Mitrice Richardson is it. This is a case that went from Mitrice being released because the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's station was overcrowded to her being released because there was no reason to hold her after it was proven that the jail was nowhere near being overcrowded.
I would hate to think that our collective silence has to do with the fact that Mitrice is a young Black female or that because she is a lesbian, her disappearance is somehow not important or related to Black people. This is a young lady who was doing everything right. A college graduate on her way to becoming a substitute teacher. A clean record. She is just 24-years-old. 24.
As the holiday season approaches the Richardson's carry the burden of keeping the torch lit in the search for Mitrice. A torch that is often dimmed when compared to other local and national news stories. Plainly put-the family needs the support of the collective community to call attention to this injustice.
Mitrice Richardson is our JC Dugard. Similar to the way in which California's parole officers failed JC Dugard, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's failed Mitrice Richardson and are continuing to hamper efforts to find her and answer questions about her disappearance.
Mitrice could have been your daughter, sister, aunt, mother, or friend. If the sheriff's did this to Mitrice, imagine who else they've done this too and will do it too unless policies are changed and attention is called to Mitrice Richardson's disappearance.
History has shown that when we collectively ban together as Black people to call attention to an issue, we all win. This is one of those situations that is going to require all of us to do our part. Whether it's downloading and passing out flyers at your job, participating in local search efforts for Mitrice, or calling out the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, now is the time.
We can't afford to solely focus on the LAPD while overlooking the atrocities committed by the sheriff's department on Black people. In other words, Black people, it's time to nut up or shut up.
www.bringmitricehome.org.
How to Nut Up
- Visit www.bringmitricehome.org and download flyers to put up at your job, nail shop, carwash, and anywhere else you think people will see it.
- Sign up to receive Twitter updates from the Richardson family directly on the situation.
- Join the Find Mitrice Facebook fan page.
- Add "For the latest information on Mitrice Richardson log onto www.bringmitricehome.org" to your email signature.
- Sign the petition calling for a Federal Investigation into the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's handling of Mitrice Richardson.
- Email the website to your address book and ask others to do steps 1-6.
Based in Los Angeles, at 32, Jasmyne A. Cannick among other things is a syndicated columnist who writes about the intersection of race, politics, and sexuality. She can be reached via her website: www.jasmynecannick.com.
http://tiny.cc/IrRz5
IN THE CASE OF MITRICE RICHARDSON: Black People: It's Time to Nut Up or Shut Up!
(November 12, 2009)
http://eurweb.com/story/eur57373.cfm
*On any other occasion, had the Los Angeles Police Department arrested and booked a young Black female and then let her go in the middle of the night without her purse, car, or cell phone, in the middle of nowhere never to be seen again-Black people would be screaming off with their heads.
We'd probably be ready to burn down police headquarters if the same law enforcement agency then took its sweet ass time in providing a police report-a police report that was clearly altered and amended-that would normally take 24 hours to secure and refused to provide video of the young Black female either entering or leaving the police station-only to tell the media 8 weeks later, that a tape doesn't exist.
So then can someone please tell me why the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department continues to get a pass for the mishandling and mistreatment of 24-year-old missing Mitrice Richardson?
The facts in the case are simple. On the evening of September 16 Mitrice Richardson was in Malibu at a restaurant. A call was made to the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's station that she was acting "crazy" and couldn't pay her bill. The sheriff's searched her car and found some marijuana for personal use and arrested her. She was allegedly released from the sheriff's station a little after midnight on September 17 without her car, purse, or cell phone never to be heard from again.
In the past 55 days since Mitrice was last seen, the family has repeatedly made attempts to secure any video proving that Mitrice actually left the sheriff's station. Because quite frankly, it's just the sheriff's word that Mitrice left the station and I've watched enough "Law & Order" to know that the first suspect is always the last person known to be with the victim. In this case, that would be the Malibu-Lost Hill's Sheriff's Department.
Now if I were Sheriff Lee Baca, agenda item number one would be clearing my deputies of any wrong doing. So if that meant furnishing the videotape of Mitrice entering and/or exiting the Malibu-Lost Hill's Sheriff's station, well then so be it. If the video in question didn't exist, what I wouldn't do is string along the family for weeks allowing them to think there was a video. And I certainly wouldn't let the news of there being no video appear in a small Malibu newspaper before telling the family. But that's exactly what the sheriff's did.
So here we are nearly two months later and there are more questions than answers as it relates to the disappearance of the Cal State Fullerton graduate who lived in Watts with her great-grandmother. And yet nothing from a community that normally looks for police brutality and mistreatment in the same way our Mayor looks for news cameras- on a daily basis 24/7.
There's been no outcry from the NAACP, SCLC, Urban League, or other community advocate organizations that we typically see and here from in the media when an injustice has been committed against African-Americans. And I find myself asking why?
I mean if there was ever a clear case of police misconduct all wrapped up with a bow on it just waiting to be exposed, the disappearance of Mitrice Richardson is it. This is a case that went from Mitrice being released because the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's station was overcrowded to her being released because there was no reason to hold her after it was proven that the jail was nowhere near being overcrowded.
I would hate to think that our collective silence has to do with the fact that Mitrice is a young Black female or that because she is a lesbian, her disappearance is somehow not important or related to Black people. This is a young lady who was doing everything right. A college graduate on her way to becoming a substitute teacher. A clean record. She is just 24-years-old. 24.
As the holiday season approaches the Richardson's carry the burden of keeping the torch lit in the search for Mitrice. A torch that is often dimmed when compared to other local and national news stories. Plainly put-the family needs the support of the collective community to call attention to this injustice.
Mitrice Richardson is our JC Dugard. Similar to the way in which California's parole officers failed JC Dugard, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's failed Mitrice Richardson and are continuing to hamper efforts to find her and answer questions about her disappearance.
Mitrice could have been your daughter, sister, aunt, mother, or friend. If the sheriff's did this to Mitrice, imagine who else they've done this too and will do it too unless policies are changed and attention is called to Mitrice Richardson's disappearance.
History has shown that when we collectively ban together as Black people to call attention to an issue, we all win. This is one of those situations that is going to require all of us to do our part. Whether it's downloading and passing out flyers at your job, participating in local search efforts for Mitrice, or calling out the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, now is the time.
We can't afford to solely focus on the LAPD while overlooking the atrocities committed by the sheriff's department on Black people. In other words, Black people, it's time to nut up or shut up.
www.bringmitricehome.org.
How to Nut Up
- Visit www.bringmitricehome.org and download flyers to put up at your job, nail shop, carwash, and anywhere else you think people will see it.
- Sign up to receive Twitter updates from the Richardson family directly on the situation.
- Join the Find Mitrice Facebook fan page.
- Add "For the latest information on Mitrice Richardson log onto www.bringmitricehome.org" to your email signature.
- Sign the petition calling for a Federal Investigation into the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's handling of Mitrice Richardson.
- Email the website to your address book and ask others to do steps 1-6.
Based in Los Angeles, at 32, Jasmyne A. Cannick among other things is a syndicated columnist who writes about the intersection of race, politics, and sexuality. She can be reached via her website: www.jasmynecannick.com.
Mitrice Richardson's Girlfriend to Ask LGBT Community for Help in Finding Mitrice - From Jasmynecannick.com
Mitrice Richardson’s Girlfriend to Ask LGBT Community for Help in Finding Mitrice
http://www.jasmynecannick.com/blog/?p=7111
25 year-old Tessa Moon of San Francisco, the girlfriend of Mitrice Richardson, will make a plea to the Los Angeles area LGBT community on Monday, November 2, 2009 for help in finding her girlfriend of two years who recently went missing.
Members of the LGBT community are asked to attend a special community meeting Monday, November 2 at 6 p.m. in the community room of Jewels Catch One located at 4067 Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90019. Along with Tessa, Mitrice’s father and other family members and friends will be on hand with flyers and information on Mitrice’s last whereabouts.
A Cal State Fullerton graduate who was living with her great-grandmother in South Los Angeles, Mitrice Richardson mysteriously disappeared following her September 17 predawn release from a sheriff’s substation near Malibu where she was booked for allegedly failing to pay a restaurant bill. In addition, to her studies and career, Mitrice was also one of the dancers at the Long Beach club Ripples.
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to her safe return.
WHAT:
Community meeting in support of finding Mitrice Richardson
WHO:
Tessa Moon, girlfriend of Mitrice Richardson, family, friends, community members
WHEN:
Monday, November 2, 2009
6 p.m.
WHERE:
Jewels Catch One
Community Room
4067 Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90019
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