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Students Organize for Fellow Student Victim of Allegedly Racist Prosecution

Date: 9/30/2009 1:51 pm

Students, organized through a grassroots group Justice for Jason, are calling for all charges to be dropped in what they believe to be a racially motivated prosecution of UMass-Amherst student Jason Vassell. Vassell, an African American, faces a 30 year prison sentence for using a pocketknife to defend himself against two drunken assailants.

Justice for Jason was founded shortly after Vassell’s arrest, and is calling for all charges to be dropped. The committee has organized many events to raise awareness for Jason’s predicament, including a national call-in day to Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel. The group also has an organizing tool-kit posted on their website and is now working with the ACLU to advocate for Vassell.

According to Vassell and his advocates, he was asked by two inebriated white men outside of his first floor window to be admitted into his dormitory building on the Amherst campus in the early morning hours of February 3, 2008.  The two men, Jonathan Bosse and John Bowes, were not UMass students and began verbally attacking Vassell with racial slurs when he refused to let them into the building.  After they broke his nose, Vassell used a pocketknife to defend himself.

The arresting officer reported that “It look[ed] like a drug deal."

Neither Bosse nor Bowes was critically injured and their testimonies to the police were inconsistent.  Additionally, Bowes changed his story twice over the course of the investigation.

Vassell was charged with two counts of attempted murder which was later reduced to two counts of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon.

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Issue: Social Justice


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