Update from Marty, South Dakota

I am Oitancan Zephier, a former police officer of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, combat veteran of Afghanistan and a father. Last week I quit my job when the protests started over the building of a hogfarm by a corporation on private land surrounded by tribal lands. I quit because the Bureau of Indian Affairs will not help us. They stand and watch us get tossed in jail. The filth of the pigs will effect every part of our indian people here.

There is a headstart school 2 miles away from the hog farm. There is a kindergarten through 12th grade school 4 miles away. There is a day care a couple miles away from the site. It is a prejudice act granted by the state of South Dakota to these pigfarm owners. We need your help. If this is completed they will assume jurisdiction of all that surrounds them. The already began taking our tribal road, which we have intensely fought for 2 weeks now.

I have been thrown in jail while on our indian land by a state officer. That is wrong! I am begging you for your help. If you can, please publish the cry for help below in any way you can.

Contact me if you can help; or please forward this on to anyone who can help us.

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People! We need your help! Come to Marty, SD now! Help us fight the
Longview Farms Hogfarm and the State of South Dakota.

We need the help of every nation that is willing to help us! Don't wait for an invitation. Please! Come help us now! We're too busy with things here to think of everyone that can help us.

We have our hands full with whats in front of us. Call us. Make suggestions. Give us advice! Whatever it is, help us! We need bodies.

We need people! people! people! We need people willing to fight! We need people willing to go to jail by a state officer on indian land!

Doesn't that seem wrong to you? I went to jail while standing on a tribal highway by a South Dakota state deputy, while the Bureau of Indian Affairs watched.

That's what is happening! It is wrong! We need money for bail. Many more of our indian people will be going to jail.

If we don't fight this, Indian people will continue to lose land. Next time it will be your people. Remember when a cry for help came out what "reason" or "excuse" you gave.

You'll get it right back when you need help. The system keeps us locked in place. It keeps us working, paying bills and plugged into society.

In that mindset we're all robots programmed to do what the government wants us to do pay taxes! Give them money! "I gotta feed my family," you're thinking.

I know it. I was too but overcame it. Tunkasina (the grandfather) knows that our fight is right and honorable. Better things will follow for us.

This is really not about a hog farm! This is about the racist state of south dakota moving in the middle of Indian country and saying, "This is our road!"

Tomorrow it will be "this is our land!" We need to fight! We need your help!

Oi Zephier
Ihanktonwan Dakota
Yankton Sioux Tribe
Marty, SD 57361
Zephiero@hotmail.com
(605) 454-8355 (Cell)

NYC: Police officers who murdered Sean Bell acquitted

A judge in New York has acquitted three police officers who shot dead an unarmed man hours before his wedding.

Sean Bell, 23, who was black, was shot as he left a strip club in the suburb of Queens in November 2006.

Two detectives, Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora, faced charges of manslaughter. A third, Marc Cooper, had been accused of reckless endangerment.

The case had generated accusations of police racism and brutality, and there were angry protests outside the court.

Bell's fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell, walked out of the packed courtroom as soon as Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman cleared the three officers of all charges.

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Kentucky: Police officer "accidentally" draws pistol instead of taser

Nicholasville Police report a officer accidentally shot a man while trying to break up a domestic disturbance. A written statement from Nicholasville Police says Lieutenant Bill Jones thought he was drawing his taser but instead drew and firedhis sidearm. A man was wounded and taken to the UK Hospital for treatment. The man's name and condition not being released.

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Ohio: Police taser, kill man

A hospital spokesman said a man has died five days after he was subdued outside a bar near Miami University by a police officer using a stunning device.

University Hospital spokesman Don Crouse said 24-year-old Kevin Piskura of Chicago died shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday at the Cincinnati hospital.

Police said Oxford Officer Geoff Robinson used the device early Saturday morning as he tried to break up a fight. Police said Piskura argued with police after a friend was escorted from a bar.

Piskura was heard screaming as police shocked him outside the Brick Street restaurant.

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NYC: The Police State comes to the subway; If you thought the police presence was bad now, just wait

The NYPD is pulling out all the stops to beef up safety of the subways. On Thursday it launched a new anti-terror effort called "Operation Torch," but the cost of the program is raising some eyebrows.

The NYPD's new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

"Times Square, Grand Central, Penn Station … the locations you would expect, but not only those locations. The assignments will vary and will be following no discernible pattern," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

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