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Black Lives Matter Pasadena Organizer, Convicted of One Felony and Awaiting Trial for Two Misdemeanor Charges, Addresses City Council

Published on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | 5:30 am
 

Jasmine Richards speaks before Pasadena City Council on Monday, June 28, 2016.

 

Monday’s Pasadena City Council budget discussion was bookended by a small procession of public speakers who spoke out beforehand to demand that convicted Black Lives Matter Pasadena leader Jasmine Richards’ remaining untried misdemeanor charges be dropped and later to criticize budgeting more money for the Pasadena police.

Richards also appeared and spoke on her own behalf, accusing the Council of “being on the wrong side of history.”

Pasadena resident and broadcast journalist Sonali Kolhatkar said, “This is an over-policed community. Northwest Pasadena needs Jasmine Richards.”

“You’ve targeted her, you’ve made her a scapegoat,” Kolhatkar continued. “Pasadena needs someone like her to challenge you. The City is failing us. The whole world is now watching. You’re doing the exact opposite of what you should be doing. She knows what the community needs. You’ll make yourselves look like fools.”

Following the budget discussion, Richards spoke up again, and criticized the budget for adding money to the police.

“I’m saying more community programs, and less police,” she said.

Richards was recently convicted and sentenced in a separate widely-publicized felony case for “attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police custody” during an incident last August, 2015 in Northwest Pasadena.

She was released after serving only 12 days of a 90 day sentence, but is due to return to court July 14 for pre-trial hearings in the two unrelated pending misdemeanor cases.

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