Hold Hot Springs, Arkansas Officer Joey Williams Accountable

To:  Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department

We as a united global community are standing up firm against the Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department for their allowance of Officer Joey Williams to return and remain on the police force- despite what many in the global community are calling "police brutality" and "excessive force."


As you may already know or may have already heard, many peoples throughout the world have been, and are, appalled and outraged over the recent viral video which has been posted on youtube.com. Not to mention, many peoples throughout the world are also outraged at the Hot Springs Police Department's reaction of quickly returning to duty Officer Joey Williams despite over whelming dissent and calls for his immediate termination.

The popular youtube video shows clearly several Hot Springs, Arkansas youths plagued by what again many are calling "police brutality" and "excessive force". This event took place in what has historically been a popular down town tourist area in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

We as a united global community have therefore decided to demand the Hot Springs Police Department re-investigate the actions of Officer Joey Williams, and to hold him to a fair and fully accountable investigative trial.

This extremely popular series of youtube videos has set several amazing records for viewership, with a whopping and continuously growing 2,000,000+ views and growing everyday!

You can find this popular video by simply searching under skateboarders, skateboard, hot springs skateboarders, police brutality, and or other various search words and phrases. There are many versions and many different peoples commenting about this video on line.

In addition to the many versions of the video on the internet, the event has garnered a mass array of media coverage throughout mainstream television and other grassroots media sources- CNN, Fox, arkansas.indymedia.org, and the extremely popular activist myspace page www.myspace.com/unitedaid to name a few.


Here Is What Are We Demanding From You The Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department:

1. We hereby demand you the Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department to come forth with an official apology to the world via the skateboarders and their families and friends for whom have had to courageously go through this atrocious event.

2. We also hereby demand Officer Joey Williams to be re-investigated, and NOT to return to the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department for the general well being and welfare of our concerned Hot Springs, Arkansas citizens and united global peoples.


We as a community will NOT stop speaking out about this event till ALL these demands are carried out to the full. We also ask that these demands be carried out quickly and publicly, before the one year anniversary of this atrocious event June 21, 2008.



We will also be doing our part by exercising our freedom of speech rights via phone calls, emails, and even faxes to you the Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department.

We understand these to be your contacts:


Chief of Police: Bobby Southard
email: bsouthard@cityhs.net

Public Information Cpl. Means
email: mmeans@cityhs.net

Phone: (501) 321-6789
Fax: (501) 321-6708

Hot Springs Police Department
Chief of Police, Bobby Southard
641 Malvern Avenue
Hot Springs, Arkansas 71901


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Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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