Luis Gongora Pat

End Gascon’s Double Standard! Try Amilcar’s Killers!

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Thursday, January 5, 2017
12Noon – 1:00pm

 Hall of Justice (Steps)
850 Bryant St.
San Francisco

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District Attorney George Gascon says he’s about to decide whether to file charges against the officers who killed Amilcar Perez Lopez in February 2015 by six bullets to his back.

This Thursday, the Justice for Amilcar Coalition will once again demand the DA charge the officers with murder. And we will join Public Defender Jeff Adachi in calling out the DA’s double standard of consistently exonerating officers who kill civilians while relentlessly prosecuting civilians who allegedly harm an officer.

Whenever a civilian allegedly harms an officer, DA Gascón files every charge in the book, often with little evidence. But when a police officer harms or kills a young black or brown person like Amilcar, the DA not only refuses to bring the officer to trial but even tries to paint the victim as the criminal.

Despite many officer-involved shootings since he took office, many of them fatal, DA Gascon has charged not a single officer. By contrast, young Mission District Latinos committing relatively minor crimes are often prosecuted and punished severely. If the law is applied so harshly in one instance, why not the other?

We’re calling out the DA’s double standard. We want justice for Amilcar, Luis Gongora Pat, Mario Woods, Jessica Williams, and all the other victims of police violence.

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Check out this recent article in 48hills.org. Although the DA can’t seem to charge the officers who killed Amilcar, he relentlessly pursues a young black man who defended himself from wrongful arrest by BART police–even after a jury had found the young man innocent.

Memorial and March for Amilcar: Reporting Back

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This past Friday marked one year and a half since Amilcar was killed.

In addition to remembering and honoring Amilcar and the other victims of police violence, we called upon California Attorney General Kamala Harris to take over Amilcar’s case and file the murder charges herself.

Read our press release announcing the event and explaining why we are taking these steps.

At the site where he was killed, we remembered and honored him and his family:

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At the site where Amilcar was killed, we remembered and honored him and his family

We marched to the site where his and our neighbor, Luis Gongora Pat, was also killed by SFPD:14102230_10207123329062064_7173232076176825848_n

We then proceeded to Mission Police Station:14141893_10207123328142041_4570245433660378963_n

A few of the news reports….

Leading up to the event, KGO-TV ran this:

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Later that night, KGO followed up:

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Univision 14 covered the event:

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And our friends at Mission Local ran this:

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City of San Francisco Giving Human Rights Awards While Continuing Human Rights Abuses

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[Below is a joint press release from an alliance of community groups, reposted to the J4Amilcar website]

For Immediate Release:

City of San Francisco Giving Human Rights Awards While Continuing Human Rights Abuses

An alliance of community organizations in San Francisco that have been working to hold the City of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department accountable for the deaths of brown and black people who have been killed by the police have been called to receive a human rights award by the City of San Francisco.

These groups, including the Idriss Stelley Foundation, Amor for Alex Nieto, Justice 4 Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Do No Harm Coalition, Justice for Luis Gongora Pat, and Justice 4 Jessica Nelson-Williams express deep concern at the actions of the City which seeks to praise their activism while failing to address any of the systemic issues that lead to the disproportionate killing and economic displacement of people of color with no mechanism in place for justice. In response to the lack of justice from the City of San Francisco, the SFPD, its District Attorney, the Attorney General of California and the lack of any binding investigation from the Department of Justice, these groups have contacted the UN Committee on Torture and will be filing a complaint with the International Court of Justice, seeking assistance now from the international community to respond to the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the City on people of color and the economically disadvantaged in San Francisco which continue. In light of the findings of the damning Blue Ribbon Panel and the community’s call for justice, it is crucial that the City acts immediately to suspend the ongoing intimidation by the SFPD, to allow for the prosecution and removal of killer cops from its force, to cease evictions that are destroying the cultural integrity of neighborhoods of people of color and to stop its intimidation and harm of the unhoused.

With the police killings of Idriss Stelley, Mario Woods, Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez Lopez, Luis Gongora Pat and Jessica Nelson, we see a City that is unable to guarantee the protection of human dignity and justice for all of its citizens.

Dr. Rupa Marya, professor of medicine with the UCSF Do No Harm Coalition: “When the body is fighting cancer, you need medicine, not awards. And the body of San Francisco is suffering from the cancer of disparity in income, safety and respect. The medicine here is justice.”

Please join us to document the Human Rights Awards Ceremony where each of these groups will voice their respective thoughts on this award and the state of Human Rights in San Francisco. Immediately following, there will be a press conference to answer specific questions from the press.

San Francisco Human Rights Commission Hero Award Ceremony

San Francisco City Hall

Room 250

Thursday, July 28th at 5:30pm

Media Contact:

Rupa Marya rupa.marya@ucsf.edu

May 22 River of Sorrows: Invitation to walk with families hurt by police to Mission Dolores

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Justice 4 Amilcar is co-sponsoring this community event for the family of Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat and family and friends of other loved ones killed by SFPD.

When: May 22, 2016

What: Walk with families hurt by police from site of SFPD killings from Bernal Heights to Mission Dolores for mass for Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat at noon

Where:

9 a.m. – Start at Alex Nieto Memorial Site on Bernal Heights Park

Noon – Mass at Mission Dolores

1 p.m. – Potluck picnic in Dolores Park

Description:

The family of Luis Góngora Pat invite us to walk with them to the Mission Dolores, where a mass will be held at NOON for Luis.

At 9AM, we will begin walking with Elvira and Refugio Nieto and Justice 4 Alex Nieto supporters from Bernal Heights, down Folsom Street to meet friends and supporters of Justice 4 Amilcar near 24th, then continue on Shotwell Street to 19th to meet up with family and friends of Justice 4 Luis Góngora Pat. From there we will continue in procession to the Mission Dolores. After mass, a potluck picnic will be held at Dolores Park. If you don’t want attend mass, please meet us at Dolores Park and help set up a picnic spot!

Event co-sponsored by Justice4Luis, Justice4AlexNieto, PoorMAG/PrensaPobre, Mission Neighborhood Resource Center.

Note:

May 22 is also the Malcom X Day and there is a festival in the Bayview, where Mario Woods, Kenny Harding Jr, and Idriss Stelley are also being honored.

Wherever you go, walk with us in resistance.