#FreeSiwatu!

http://solidarity-us.org/atc/195/siwatu/
Date Written:  2018-07-01
Publisher:  Against the Current
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23343

Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.

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Although Michigan has a Stand Your Ground Law that covers those acting in self-defense, Siwatu was convicted for pointing her unloaded, registered gun at a woman who rammed her car while Siwatu's two-year-old was inside. The police branded her as "the aggressor" because the woman filed the police report first.

Apparently the jury did not believe that Siwatu was scared for the life and well-being of her family, and therefore convicted her of felonious assault. While the law requires a mandatory two-year sentence for the conviction, the jury was unaware of that reality.