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March 13, 2021
The 2nd District Court of Appeal determined this week that the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Appellate Division will hear the Attorney General and District Attorney’s appeals of Judge Matthew Guerrero’s recusal of all county prosecutors in the cases of a group of Black Lives Matter protestors who detained people on Highway 101 last July.
In early January, state and local prosecutors filed two appeals each, one in the felony case against Robert Lastra the protester who allegedly smashed a car window onto a 4-year-old boy and one in the misdemeanor filings against the remaining six defendants. Generally, the 2nd District Court of Appeal hears felony appeals while a panel of three SLO County Superior Court judges rules on misdemeanor appeals.
By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo activist Tianna Arata made her second national television appearance since her arrest following a protest last July, this
We All Bleed Photographs by Richard Fusillo, as well as local activists voice recordings and a collage of protest signs, are currently on display at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in the We All Bleed exhibit, which can be toured virtually on sloma.org. The exhibition will be up through Sunday, May 2, and was created in collaboration with R.A.C.E. Matters SLO. A SLO Motion Film event on Saturday, April 24, features
SNCC, a documentary about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Tickets are available at slomotionfilm.com. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died in police custody after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he lost consciousness. Floyd had been arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 to purchase cigarettes. His death was another in a long list of officer-involved deaths of Black men, and it ignited the long-simmering Black Lives Matter movement that traces its inception to the 2013
On Feb. 23, a portion of an email I wrote to then San Luis Obispo Police Department Chief Deanna Cantrell was quoted in
The Tribune. This was part of a story regarding the community s reaction to the arrest of Tianna Arata and Elias Bautista following a protest on July 21, 2020. While the quote is accurate, it does not tell the whole story. The quote has led to some social media posts that have given an inaccurate portrayal of me and of my leadership of the San Luis Obispo United Methodist Church, which I serve. It is important to me to put this quote into context so as to more clearly reflect my beliefs, values, and teachings.