Biography
Eric King was an anarchist and local artist known to Kansas City police for doing unauthorized politically charged murals on the exteriors of vacant buildings, which got him arrested for vandalism on a number of occasions. In September 2014 someone threw a brick through the window of a congressional office along with a lit rag that failed to ignite and caused no damage besides the broken window. Police claimed they used a partial fingerprint on the shards of glass to match it to King despite speculative partial fingerprint matching being proven to be inaccurate. King had already been named as the prime suspect solely for his pro-anarchism views before police even tested the shards of glass for fingerprints. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison. While in prison a guard with far-right views who was affiliated with the prison's Aryan Brotherhood brought King into a supply closet where the guards knew the cameras weren't working and brutally beat him. Despite having no injuries the guard claimed he acted in self-defense and that King who was a pacifist had attacked him. King was charged with attacking the guard and the prosecution wanted another 20 years added to his sentence. He was acquitted of the charges and in retaliation the DOC had him transferred to ADX Florence, the supermax prison. Eric G. King attempted to firebomb Congressman Emanuel Cleavers Kansas City office with Molotov cocktails on September 11, 2014 as a form of anti-government protest. The cocktails failed to ignite. Sentenced to 120 months federal prison.
A November 8, 2019 message reproduced by NYC ABC describes King’s prolonged segregation, interrupted by short periods at Grady County and McCreary, and separation from his family since August 2018. The quoted fourteen-month description concerns restrictive conditions during existing imprisonment; it is not added as another consecutive prison term or a complete custody total. Source: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/updates-12-nov-2019-1.pdf#page=8
The 2021 prisoner-list biography dates King’s underlying Kansas City office incident to September 2014, his non-cooperating guilty plea to March 2016 and the completed ten-year sentencing hearing to June 28, 2016. Its quoted statement from King describes his work organizing Food Not Bombs and anti-Klan rallies. The source’s statutory citation is not used to replace the legal charge without checking the actual judgment.
A December 2020 solidarity notice reports that King’s mail ban was temporarily lifted and describes solitary confinement and communication restrictions. These were historical conditions during his existing sentence, not a new custody period or current restrictions.
New Observations’ 2023 compilation reports that King spent six months in segregation at CCA Leavenworth during pretrial detention.
The August 23, 2019 update reports transit toward Colorado; the later address lists FCI Englewood. The threatened twenty-year assault prosecution is not an imposed sentence or actual extra time served. His supporters dispute the government’s description of the incident; those claims are attributed.
