It almost sounds too ridiculous to be true, but a recent tip given to Counter Current News by activists in Sandusky, Ohio has checked out.
Police accountability activists in Sandusky have been hard at work shedding light on Erie County police officers who have a generally totalitarian approach to protesters.
While Sandusky and Greater Cleveland Cop Block chapters have been hard at work exposing police injustices, brutality and abuses of power, a glimpse behind the scenes has revealed that Erie County Police Officers have been privately comparing “Cop Block” activists to ISIS terrorists.
See one example we were able to verify and screen capture on the Police Facebook page in question…
Sandusky activists tell us that this is a response to their local Cop Block chapter standing together at a joint rally in front of the city building with Stockett Toledo Cop Block and Greater Cleaved Cop Block, in solidarity with victims of police brutality. This, the Erie County police have essentially equated with “terrorism.”
Community activist Robert Medley explained “I have made it clear that Sandusky Cop Block stands firm on making sure Officer Denny be held accountable for his actions.”
Medley is referring to an incident where a citizen was recently threatened by police who said they would have Child Protective Services take his baby away if Andre Stockett did not show identification to the officer who had pulled over the car in which he was a passenger.
“Officer Evan Estep was the K9 officer who threw a dog treat up against the vehicle to ‘justify a hit’ and proceed to conduct an illegal search,” Medley tells us.
The police, of course, found no drugs in the vehicle.
For their crime of standing strong against this illegal and, in Medley’s words, “racist” police abuse of power, these activists have been branded “terrorists” on a police support page with comments that even the Police Chief John Orzech and his family have acknowledged and “liked.”
If standing up to police brutality and abuse of power is seen as “terrorism” in the eyes of the police, then what do you think that means they are willing to do to activists?
Help us spread the word to shine the light on these disgusting police comments.