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Brian Buckley

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:2000s
State:Georgia
Time Imprisoned:
3 Months 3 Days
Support
Anti-War School of the Americas Watch
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Biography

Brian Buckley crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / WHINSEC. Sentenced to 3 months.

Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.

Cases

Charges: Trespass at U.S. Army School of the Americas, Fort Benning
Arrested: Nov 22, 2003
Incarcerated: Nov 22, 2003
Released: Feb 22, 2004
Sentence: 3 months
Charges: Pretrial detention following a Hiroshima commemoration protest at the National Air and Space Museum
Arrested: Aug 7, 2004
Incarcerated: Aug 7, 2004
Released: Aug 9, 2004
Sentence: Posted bail on Monday, August 9, following the Saturday protest.
Charges: Disorderly conduct during the August 7, 2004 Enola Gay protest at the National Air and Space Museum
Sentenced: December 2004
Released: Jan 4, 2005
Sentence: Two months with credit for time served; released from the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.