"Chainsaw Wielder is Taken to Court"

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"Chainsaw Wielder is Taken to Court"

Bay Area Reporter (12/22/88) Vol. 18, No. 51, P. 14
Wockner, Rex

Abstract: An employee of the Acme Tree Service in Rockville, Md., was scheduled for a December day in court as a result of an incident during the October civil disobedience at the Food and Drug Administration in which he allegedly threatened AIDS activists with a chain saw. Louis Kola reportedly became so angry when an AUtomobile that was trying to circumvent activist pickets crossed the curb onto Acme property that he threatened two of the protesters with a chainsaw. One of the complainants in the case, Steven Martelli of ACT UP/Chicago, said Kola "came out from the tree service and started going after protesters with a chain saw. I was a peacekeeper and got between Kola and the protesters and tried to explain nonviolent civil disobedience to him while he continued to rev his saw." Martelli and John Ryan of Washington, D.C., asked police to arrest Kola, but they refused, saying they had not seen Kola--who allegedly shut off the saw when they appeared--threaten anyone. After Martelli and Ryan filed separate complaints, lawyers from the D.C. group Oppression Under Target, or OUT, convinced Montgomery County, Md., to file simple assAUlt charges.
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