(MediaQuicky) Since May, Los Angeles high schooler Jeremy Marks has been in jail facing felony charges—BASICLY for filming a school police officer who hit a 15-year-old student. An engineer who works at GOOGLE heard of the crazy ass story and decided to help.According to the LA weekly, the student caught on tape an LA Unified School District cop who scuffled with a 15 year old at the bus stop because the teen was smoking a joint. Jeremy Marks 18, had been sitting in an adult jail, since May 10. Bail was set at $155,000,
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley’s prosecution team says that Marks’ alleged calling out “Kick her ass!” amounted to an “attempted lynching” — defined under the law as trying to “incite a riot during an attempt to free a suspect from police custody.”
But videos shot and posted to YouTube by other students with cell phone cameras show that Marks was one of the quieter kids watching the incident. Marks can be seen in the YouTube videos using his cell phone camera to tape Robles as she repeatedly pushed the uncooperative 15-year-old smoker against an MTA bus.
On Dec. 2, the student was offered a new plea offer by the L.A. County District Attorney: If he pled guilty to charges of obstructing an officer, resisting arrest, criminal threats and “attempted lynching,” he’d serve only 32 months in prison. The previous offer on the table was 7 years in prison.
Thanks to a Google engineer in San Francisco the student has never met….the student was able to get out in time for the holidays.
Google engineer (seen in pic to right) Neil Fraser paid Marks’ $50,000 bond.
Google engineer (seen in pic to right) Neil Fraser paid Marks’ $50,000 bond.
Fraser explains, “When I was growing up, I spent several years in Germany — a country still traumatized by the Holocaust. One of the things I learned was that bad things can only happen if good people do nothing. I consider myself to be a good person, so I had no choice but to act when I saw something like this happening.”
Fraser also gave the fam $1,500 for Marks’ defense attorney costs, which was matched by Google.