AIDS Coalition Charges Harassment
A militant AIDS activist group that staged a boisterous sit-in at a Board of Supervisors meeting earlier this month charged Wednesday that its members have been harassed by sheriff’s deputies.
At a news conference outside the Hall of Administration in Los Angeles, members of AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power distributed a chronology of eight incidents of alleged harassment they said occurred between May 15 and 25.
“We’re being harassed because we’re activists and we’ve protested the Board of Supervisors’ AIDS policies,” said Connie Norman, a member of the group.
The Sheriff’s Department did not comment on the allegations.
The alleged incidents included members of the group being stopped in a car by deputies and searched for 40 minutes following an ACT-UP meeting in West Hollywood, and anonymous telephone calls to employers of ACT-UP members by callers asking questions about the employees’ involvement with the group.
Fifteen ACT-UP members were arrested May 16 after they disrupted a supervisors meeting.
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