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Jena Sheriff Seeks Revenge for Civil Rights Protests
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jordan-flaherty/jena-sheriff-seeks-reveng_b_575413.html
Catrina Wallace is the sister of Robert Bailey, one of the Jena Six. Along with her mother, Caseptla Bailey, she was one of the leaders of the campaign to free the accused youths, and she organized meetings and protests for months. Wallace says her political activism made her a target. "I'm a freedom fighter," she says. "I fight for peoples' rights. I've never been in trouble." Police found no drugs or any other evidence of wrongdoing in Wallace's home. Officers initially claimed they found marijuana on her kitchen table, but later discovered that they had collected broccoli stems, left over from dinner the previous night. Despite the lack of evidence, and the fact that she has lived her whole life in Jena and is raising three small children, she was held for a $150,000 cash-only bond. Her car, a 1999 Mitsubishi Gallant, was also taken by police, who continue to hold it in an impound lot, along with about fifty other vehicles seized that day. If she wants it back, Catrina will have to pay twelve dollars a day to the lot for every day since July of last year -- an amount already larger than the value of the car.
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