In support of Jesse Archer

[reviews_and_ramblings]

I was pretty shocked yesterday night to read of how Jesse Archer, an actor and screenwriter I had the chance to know online and then meet in NYC this last September (that is him in the picture, with director Casper Andreas, Jesse and Casper are screenwriter and director of Violet Tendencies, my adopted movie), was injured and arrested Friday night at Grand Central Station.

It was not even so late, for a Friday night, 1.30 a.m. and passing through the main room, he did a cartwheel. A nearby policeman wanted to ticket him for "disorderly conduct", and when Jesse, not to the policeman, but to the friend he was too, uttered an expletive about the cops, several of them tackled him, causing an injury at the head and he passed out. He awoke in a prison's cell, naked if not for his underwear.

In the end they ticketed him and he was out at 3.30, but I bet they were 2 very long and painful hours.

I can't even imagine something like that happening to someone I know, when I met Jesse he was so gentle and kind, thinking at how he was treated make me shake. I'd like to be near him to help and comfort, I can only forward the link of the blog he wrote, hoping that something like that doesn't happen anymore. Impossible I know, but from somewhere we have to start.

http://jesseonthebrink.blogspot.com/2009/10/police-brutality-new-yorks-finest.html

Comments

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

and he passed away

Goodness; for a moment I thought he'd died. I wonder if he was checked for concussion because he passed out. What a horrid experience and another example of those whose have some authority abusing it.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

He is contacting some organization, lucky for him, he has some contacts near him. He is also a columnist for Out Magazine, so I hope he will have the right advice. Elisa

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's absolutely awful! I'm glad he was alert enough to blog about it.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

He blogged yesterday night, Monday, and actually he usually blogs at list once a day, so three day without him blogging was a long period. Elisa

[cornflake2912.livejournal.com]

That's terrible :(

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, and probably there was also a racism reason behind it, that is even more terrible. Elisa

New York, New York

[(Anonymous)]

That's New York for you, they cleaned it right up into a Fascist state, Sieg Heil!

Mick

www.mykoladementiuk.com

Re: New York, New York

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I'm reading some very bad thing in the comment section of his blog. I didn't know it was like that, when I'm travelling, I avoid to be out late at night, but simply since I prefer to wake up early. So I didn't notice that, but I know Jesse couldn't possible have done nothing to justify that behavior. Elisa

[kirby-crow.livejournal.com]

They knocked him UNCONSCIOUS and then stripped him? Did they get no medical attention for him at all??!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Apparently not. He said that when he was free he had a sheet in hand saying that he refused medical treatment, but he didn't remember that. Elisa

[ryan-field.livejournal.com]

An awful shame.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, and even worst was to read some comments people left at his blog and somewhere else, comments more or less saying that, since Jesse is has a "loudy" personality, in a way he derserved that. I think that, if you are not harming anyone, and not causing real trouble, a reaction like the one the Metropolitan Police Dep had was way too much, even if Jesse was "loud", a ticket is fine, but all the rest? Way too much. Elisa

[ryan-field.livejournal.com]

I agree, Elisa.