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Just arrived in our inbox (a remarkably short, or circular, voyage…)
For Immediate Release:
WORKING-CLASS ANAHEIM NEIGHBORHOODS SAY “ENOUGH”
TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND HARASSMENT.
WHEN: Wednesday May 22, 2013, 11 AM – directly following the weekly Los Amigos meeting
WHERE: Jägerhaus German Restaurant, 2525 East Ball Road at 57 Fwy, Anaheim, CA 92806
WHO:
- Donna Acevedo, mother of Joel Acevedo
- Genevieve Huizar, mother of Manuel Diaz
- Theresa Smith, mother of Caesar Cruz
- Sonia Hernandez, sister of Martin Hernandez
- Yesenia Rojas, Anna Drive neighborhood activist
- Alex Salazar, former LA policeman and civil rights investigator
- Cynthia Ward, citizen watchdog
WHAT DO WE WANT:
- At the minimum, for the officers who have killed to be re-assigned to other areas of the City.
- A respectful dialogue with the new leadership of the department.
- Respectful treatment from the police assigned to our neighborhoods.
- An end to certain practices geared toward snaring young Latino men into the system.
- More details to be provided Wednesday!
Contact: Donna Acevedo, acevedo_donna@hotmail.com
This is an encouraging step to address one of the serious problems in our city. I hope that the new APD leadership will listen to these ladies and Alex.
Ricardo. I have faith in the residents of Anaheim. They are becoming more organized and more focused. They need to avoid all mob mentality though and focus on their network of educated activists. Encourage those that support dedication to the cause and those that understand the media manipulation for or against them.
At the very least there are serious legal ramifications for allowing the continued contact between potential defendants (Kelly Phillips has not yet been cleared by the DA) and witnesses. Not to mention contact between a hostile City funded resource and a known litigant (civil suit). Why has the City Attorney not reduced taxpayer exposure to liability?
Digging into this I have found a number of policy and procedure issues that are shaky at best, and an invitation to disaster and continued lawsuits. And that is just the stuff we can SEE because clicking on “Policy Manual” at the APD website shows a link under construction. I have been promised a copy of their P and P manual via PRA request and will report later.
Recent reports of ugly behavior from APD staff are now met by their official spokesperson with “there is no official policy preventing it”….so much for professionalism. Yeah, it is time to say ENOUGH!
That is one very interesting point, Cynthia.
Wait a second. You’re not really Jesus are you.
Nah: he/she/they/it has a “christ.com” email address; everyone knows that it should be christ.org or christ.net. (Or, if you’re MAGA, christ.us.)