Fwd: THE LARGEST WORKING CLASS UPRISING IN US HISTORY (AND YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER EVEN HEARD OF IT)

[David Morris]

Zeitoun's still here, but not in a good way.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/zeitoun-domestic-battery-792315

JANUARY 31--The New Orleans man whose post-Hurricane Katrina heroics
and tribulations were chronicled by best-selling author Dave Eggers in
the book “Zeitoun” was convicted last year of battering his wife, who
told police that she had received several prior beatings, but never
called cops on her spouse.

According to a New Orleans Police Department report, Abdulrahman
Zeitoun, 54, was arrested last March after officers responded to a
domestic battery call at the Uptown home of his wife Kathryn and the
couple’s five children.

Upon arriving at the Dart Street residence, cops found Kathryn face
down on the living room floor holding an ice-filled cloth to her
forehead. Three of her children were nearby “crying hysterically,”
police reported.

Kathryn Zeitoun, 40, told officers that she was separated from her
husband “due to finances,” and that he was living next door in a home
on Dart Street. She said that after her estranged husband entered the
home around 6:30 PM on March 2, they got into a “heated verbal
argument” that quickly became physical.

Zeitoun told cops that her husband pushed her to the living room
floor, “mounting her and hitting her in the back of the head with a
closed fist.” She added that, “her face was smashed into the floor of
the residence several times during the battery,” police reported.

The assault ended when the couple’s 15-year-old daughter--responding
to her mother’s screams for help--kicked her father in the neck,
causing him to fall off Kathryn and flee the residence. The teen said
she observed her father “beating her mother.” A second daughter
interviewed by cops corroborated statements by her mother and sister
(the child watched the entire assault from the kitchen).

Before an ambulance arrived to transport her to Tulane University
Hospital, Kathryn told officers that she has “received beatings from
her husband several times prior,” but that she “never reported them to
the police out of fear.” The police report does not include further
details of these alleged prior attacks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: THE LARGEST WORKING CLASS UPRISING IN US HISTORY (AND
YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER EVEN HEARD OF IT)
To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>


seem to remember a good movie with sean connery and richard harris:
The Molly Maguires or sth like that.

Saw it when it came out in the 70s, great impact.

By the way of impact, what about Zeitoun, is he still living there?

Best wishes to you,

J

2012/8/30 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpyJtBl0-w4&feature=player_embedded