Update Jan. 17: Due to a people’s campaign, Ms. Benjamin is now free.
We will be planning protests at the women’s detention and city jail every day until Sara Benjamin is released. We consider her arrest and jailing as racist and egregious and we will not rest until she is out.
Benjamin is one of the youngest activists who are consistently leading the Baltimore protests for #BlackLivesMatter. She traveled to Ferguson with her 5 year old daughter and was interviewed by CNN on national news. Just 3 hours before she was scheduled to MC the “Strike Against Racism” rally, she was targeted at a bus stop in front of the college that she was registering for classes and arrested on a year old warrant on a minor misdemeanor which she had already made arrangements through the Public Defender’s office to go to court on. She is also one of the social media coordinators for the Peoples Power Assembly and community organizer and a member of the FIST youth group. Her iPad, computer and cell phone were seized. This is highly unusual in Baltimore to have a wanted poster at a community college for a possible student, Sara Benjamin, on a misdemeanor charge. It is reprehensible that one of the younger activists who are Black would be the target of this kind of harassment.
Everyone that knows Sara can testify to her courage, tremendous dedication and love for her 5 year old daughter. The repressive state apparatus (police and courts, etc.) are stooping this low to try to preemptively disrupt a major protest and to target someone as beloved and cherished in our community as Sara.
We can’t stop, we won’t stop — till Sara is FREE!
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