American Native and A.I.M. cofounder Clyde Bellecourt's mistrial

[annm4peace]

( I couldn't believe that the city of Minneapolis is wasting tax dollar's trying Mr Bellecourt. It is shameful and stupid)
(and shameful and bigoted by the Pioneer Press to use the mugshot instead of regular photo of him)

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_24114648/mistrial-declared-american-indian-activist-clyde-bellecourt?source=pkg


After toiling more than nine hours over three days, a jury in Minneapolis failed to reach a verdict Tuesday in the trespassing trial of American Indian activist Clyde Bellecourt. The judge declared a mistrial.

A prosecutor said the city would retry the 77-year-old man.

Bellecourt said he didn't believe a second jury would fare any better than the first.

"People I talk to can't believe it went this far," he said. "I'm sure this cost thousands of dollars."

The co-founder of the American Indian Movement and veteran of the 1973 siege at Wounded Knee was on trial on a misdemeanor count of trespassing. Minneapolis police arrested him Dec. 24 after he refused a security guard's demand that he leave the IDS Center.

Bellecourt had gone there to lend support to a group gathered in the skyscraper's Crystal Court to perform a ceremonial "round dance" honoring a Canadian chief staging a 40-day hunger strike.

It is rare for misdemeanor cases to go to trial in Hennepin County; this one lasted seven days.

[gopiscrap]

1. Fucking cops, and courts

this is all about vengeance..they'll keep trying him til they get a verdict and it's a guilty one they will will give this poor man the maximum sentence they can hand out.

[annm4peace]

2. the local Vets for Peace chapter are behind Mr Bellecourt

I wanted to say they are pissed.. which they are.. but all kinds of people are calling the Mayor and the City attorney's office.

[raging moderate]

3. This is outrageous! Kudos for Clyde Bellecourt!

This is getting spooky! Can't all these white people just admit that their ancestors were wrong and enter the new century? Look, some white people back then were sadistic monsters, and the rest of us were craven cowards! Let's just admit it and move on, okay? Punishing Native Americans who tactlessly mention it won't change the facts!