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Jacksonville Hemp Fest Marred by Police Violence,
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Officer Jerry Dearing of the Jacksonville Police Department has been accused of police brutality by event organizers. |
Christopher Largen, coauthor of the soon-to-be-published "Prescription Pot" and caregiver for federal medical marijuana patient George McMahon saw the whole thing. Once Duby tossed the tin, said Largen, "two uniformed officers push in on Roland without stating that he’s under arrest. Roland backs up and the cops tackle him from behind using a chokehold. He sputters as he tries to pull the choking arm away from his neck and restore his airflow," Largen told DRCNet. "He is thrown to the ground and begins screaming, "You’ve broken my leg." The tattooed bald undercover officer [Jerry Dearing] steps forward and reaches in front of Roland’s face and sprays him with mace. Roland’s glasses block a direct shot and he’s squeezing his eyes shut, so the bald guy lifts his glasses and directly blasts his eyes with mace."
[For Jacksonville residents and others who want a better sense of how scary Duby’s attacker and other Jacksonville narcs are, visit the Jacksonville Hemp Fest web site — http://www.jaxhempfest.com — which has posted pictures of them.]
Not surprisingly, the violence perpetrated against an event speaker by the Jacksonville Beach police did not play well with the crowd or with Bledsoe. The crowd swarmed toward Duby’s tent, where the police had him under guard, yelling "Shame, shame," "Nazis," "Pigs," and generally expressing their disapproval. "People were very angry and yelling at the cops, but there was no violence, there was nothing thrown. Still, the cops were freaking out," said Bledsoe.
Bledsoe added to their worries by ascending to the stage, telling the crowd what was happening, and notifying them that there were narcs in their midst. "I told the crowd there were four narcs out there, that they had arrested Duby because he refused an illegal search, and that one of them was a bald-headed guy wearing earrings. I told the crowd to watch out for those people, to stay away from them. I did not incite violence," he emphasized, adding that the entire oration, as well as Duby’s arrest, had been captured on videotape.
Jacksonville Beach police told local media that "the crowd became a problem, and we could no longer conduct our operation," arguing that Bledsoe’s identification of Dearing endangered the narc and prevented him from doing his job, thus meriting a charge of obstruction of justice against Bledsoe.
"It was the police conduct that incited the crowd, not anything I said," Bledsoe retorted. While Bledsoe is not exactly thrilled at having to deal with the warrant — it will cost time and money, he said — he is eager to once again skewer the local gendarmerie in court, and it looks like he’s got a very good case. Florida legal precedent is on his side. In a handful of cases, the most recent only three years ago, Florida appeals courts have ruled that "a person whose speech identifies an undercover police officer and frustrates the officers’ attempt to make a drug buy is not guilty of obstructing the officer in the lawful performance of a legal duty."
"I don’t know what’s wrong with these people, why they want to start this crap up again," said Bledsoe. "We already sued both Jacksonville and Jacksonville Beach over ordinances they wrote to try to block us — and won — and now they’re sending in the police to disrupt a peaceful festival. There was no violence, no drunkenness, not even any cursing on stage. We run a class act, a family-oriented event. After all, we are out here not only to celebrate our culture but also to educate the public. And this arrest warrant is a big joke. It’s just harassment, but I’m not worried, I have the law on my side."
Bledsoe will give himself up for arraignment at an appropriate time, he told DRCNet. "Sometime in the next week or two, once we get the media lined up and can make a real show of it," he said. "The cops could have avoided all this controversy if they had just left us in peace. Now we will get more publicity, they will get more scrutiny, and the taxpayers of Jacksonville Beach will pay. They’ll pay because I fully intend to sue the city for violating my First Amendment rights with this warrant."
As for the Rev. Duby, he is reportedly recuperating back home in Kentucky after friends posted a $15,000 bond for him. He is charged with resisting arrest. "I thanked God for my eventual release into blessed America and asked him to forgive my kidnappers, for they know not what they are doing," said Duby.