Oakland: Seed Pods and 8 Felonies. A set-up?  by Sue Basko
Update:  This is a comment
from: http://hellaoccupyoakland.org/how-a-seedpod-led-
to-400000-bail-and-eight-felony-charges/  Govinda, who was
arrested,  thanks Kevin Seal for writing such a good article
about his plight, and tells of the great work by his lawyer in
getting the ridiculous charges reduced. And -- I'm still asking
- Who were the two girls?  Thank you for writing this wonderful
article. About me. To update you…. I’m free. My wonderful Pro-
bono lawyer Howard Williams, got my charges reduced to one
misdemeanor assault. And I took the deal. So, I’ll have
probation for 3 years, which is not So bad. Anyways…..hope to
see you all at GA tomorrow.  A story out of Oakland has it that
a man named Govinda was at the January 28, 2012 protest that
resulted in hundreds of arrests.  Govinda's mother says that he
told her that at the protest, he met two girls.  Police were
firing tear gas.  Govinda showed seed pods he had in his hand to
the girls.  He thr