Organizers launch #FreeTia campaign with hopes to remove Long Beach activist from jail

. A coalition of organizations came together, Sunday morning at Harvey Milk Equality Plaza, to call for the release of a Long Beach organizer charged with attempted murder after she drove her car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Yorba Linda, last month. The Urban Organizers Coalition (UOC), a collective of more than 25 organizations, maintain that Tatiana “Tia” Turner, who was helping lead what was intended as a March4Equality , drove her car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring two people who were hospitalized. But, they said she did so unintentionally while attempting to escape a hostile environment and believed her life was in danger. “Nobody in their right mind gets out towards a lynch mob,” said Jai Hudson, from the organizing group, Carry On Threads , referring to the counter-protesters seen demonstrating in support of President Donald Trump. Anthony Bryson, director of the Urban Organizers Coalition, speaks during a press conference at Harvey Milk Equality Plaza, Sunday, Oct. 11, calling for the release of Tatiana “Tia” Turner, a fellow organizer in jail, […]

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