{"id":16350,"date":"2020-08-09T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/2020\/08\/09\/defend-stamford-activists-justice-for-steven-barrier\/"},"modified":"2020-08-09T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:10:21","slug":"defend-stamford-activists-justice-for-steven-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2020\/08\/09\/defend-stamford-activists-justice-for-steven-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Defend Stamford activists! Justice for Steven Barrier!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17672\" style=\"width: 920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17672 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/workersvoiceus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/stebven-barrier-demo.png?resize=723%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stebven Barrier demo\" width=\"723\" height=\"519\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice for Steven Barrier protest in July. (Stamford Advocate)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>By ERWIN FREED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of protesters were arrested while peacefully demonstrating on Saturday, Aug. 8, in downtown Stamford, Conn. The activists were calling for justice for Steven Barrier, a 23-year-old Stamford resident who died in police custody in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on social media shows Stamford police officers punching, pushing, and throwing protesters to the ground. These officers come from the same department as those responsible for Steven\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>At least seven activists were detained. Bail was set between $1000 and $10,000, and all attained release by the evening. The organizers are asking that donations to the bail fund be sent to the Connecticut Bail Fund or @Maria-Altamura on Venmo.<\/p>\n<p>For more reporting on Steven\u2019s case and the movement for justice, see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/socialistresurgence.org\/2020\/07\/12\/justice-for-steven-barrier-stamford-park-occupied\/\">https:\/\/socialistresurgence.org\/2020\/07\/12\/justice-for-steven-barrier-stamford-park-occupied\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ERWIN FREED A number of protesters were arrested while peacefully demonstrating on Saturday, Aug. 8, in downtown Stamford, Conn. The activists were calling for justice for Steven Barrier, a 23-year-old Stamford resident who died in police custody in October last year. Video posted on social media shows Stamford police officers punching, pushing, and throwing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882114,"featured_media":15248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30821,30850],"tags":[30228,30231,31198],"class_list":["post-16350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-liberation-racism","category-police-and-prisons","tag-connecticut","tag-stamford","tag-steven-barrier"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/workersvoiceus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/stebven-barrier-demo.png?fit=920%2C661&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdQxqk-4fI","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13882114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}