BROTHERS AND SISTERS
Now is the time to come together,many have worked very hard investing their time and heartfelt energy,we strongly encourage you to support this families of many that are suffering painfully the loss of their loved ones,this about our sons,daughters.grandchildren.geat grand children,it is about our youth and being their with them,in support and in solidarity,we understand that a Saturday is your free time,but just think what if as some of the families are saying "it could be one of my own !" or "it could of been me !",so join us on this very important day of "Unity",I also speak to our brothers and sisters of "Color" we are of the same body we are one people,together we are stronger !,not only that the walk will do us some "Justice" we all need to walk together.
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AL ROJAS
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Labor Council for Latin American Advancement AFL-CIO
Frente de Mexicanos en el Exterior (FME)
Candle light Vigil Luis Gutierrez ! INVITATION !!
Justice for Luis Gutierrez !
Candle light Vigil Luis Gutierrez !
On april 30th 2009 twenty five year old Luis Gutierrez was walking home from the Woodland DMV after taking his Driver license test when he was approached by 3 undercover gang suppression Yolo County Sheriffs officers who shot 6 bullets one hitting him in the back killing him in(2:00 pm) broad daylight. We all ask why he was stopped? and killed, we get no answers! Join the community in standing up and asking WHY? And for transparency from Yolo County.We cannot allow the selective killing of our sons and daughters,ya basta !!!
WE DEMAND A INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION,STATE OR FEDERAL ATTORNEY GENERALS.
A COMPLETE HALT FOR ALL "GANG SUPPRESSION ROUTINE CHECKS"
PROSECUTE THOSE IF FOUND GUILTY TO FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.
Saturday June 6th 2009
7:30pm to 9:30pm
Department of Motor Vehicles
825 East Street
Woodland CA
Coalicion por la Justicia
**Bring a Candle and Wear a white T-shirt in unity**
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VIGILIA Y PROCESION POR LA JUSTICIA DE LUIS GUTIERREZ!!
En Abril 30,2009 el joven de venia de tomar el examen de manejar del DMV de Woodland cuando aproximadamente a las 2 de la Tarde fue valaziado por 3 Sheriffs encubiertos.Aun no se sabe porque fue asesinado y valaziado por la espalda. Es por eso que exigimos:
*Una investigacion independiente
*Transparencia y claridad en los hechos ocurridos
*Un ALTO a los programas de supresión de pandillas contra nuestros hijos/as y nietos/as
SABADO 6 DE JUNIO 2009
7: 30p.m. – 9:00 P.M.
DMV 825 East St.
WOODLAND CA
El Consejo Sindical para el Avance del Trabajador Latinoamericano AFL-CIOLabor Council for Latin American Advancement AFL-CIOUnion Civica Primero de MayoOrganizacion de Trabajadores Agricolas de California OTACYolo County American Friends Service C ommittee (AFSC)Chicano ConsortiumYouth Liberation MovementBAMNFrente de Mexicanos en el ExteriorJustice Reform Coalition,La Raza Network,Sac Civil Rights NetworkEl Organizador (Organizer)CAIR-Sacramento Valley,Yolo County League of United Latin Amercan Citizens (LULAC),CLUW,Peace and Freedom Party of Sacramento (Partido Paz y Libertad de Sacramento),
DAILY DEMOCRAT
Meeting attendees : From left, Mark Merin,Al Rojas,Rev.Rev. Ashiya Odeye,Frank Gonzalez,Desiree Rojas,Luis Magana Albert V. Rojas,Efren Guttierez
Family supporters to march June 6
Created: 05/30/2009 02:31:04 AM PDT
Supporters of Luis Gutierrez, Farm Worker,who was shot and killed by Yolo County Sheriff's deputies April 30, plan to march through part of Woodland in his memory.
The June 6 march will start at 7 p.m. beginning at the Woodland Department of Motor Vehicles office at 82 5 East St., according to Al Rojas, an immigrant rights activist and former UFW organizer who is supporting Gutierrez's family. The march will travel east on East Gum Avenue until it reaches the Highway 113 overpass, where Gutierrez, 26, was killed.
The march will then turn into a candlelight vigil scheduled to last until 9 p.m.
Participants are asked to wear a white T-shirt, Rojas said. All are welcome to attend.
The news came out of a community meeting held Thursday night at the Community & Senior Center at 2001 East St. The meeting was billed as a question-and-answer session for the community, though few questions were asked.
Rojas said th e county's gang task force, made up of Woodland police officers and Yolo County Sheriff's deputies, should not be able to violate the civil rights of the community. He accused the unit of stopping people of color to justify crime statistics and protect federal grant money.
"We're going to investigate that," Rojas told a crowd of about 100 people.
Mark Merin and associate Josh Kaizuka, civil rights attorneys from Sacramento, said Gutierrez might have been laying down on his belly when he was shot. He cited the full autopsy report that stated bullet
fragments were found the exit wound of Gutierrez's face, and hypothesized the fragments could have ricocheted from the ground.
"We want an independent investigation at the highest level," Merin said. "I don't know who would be responsive to this type of investigation, but it should be someone outside of Yolo County. They shouldn't be doing it themselves."
The shooting of Gutierrez has been under investigation by the Woodland Police Department, with the Sheriff's Department doing its own internal probe. The Yolo County District Attorney's Office will ultimately review the findings.
Rojas also asked for a fully independent investigation by either the state Attorney General's Office or the regional U.S. Attorney's Office.
Rojas cracked jokes about some of the evidence found by Woodland Police Department detective Dallas Hyde in Gutierrez's room. Several CDs were listed in a department report as "having gang affiliation." Rojas said the CDs had Norteno-style country music on them and had nothing to do with the Norteno street gang.
Woodland police suspect Gutierrez was a Sureno, the Norteno gang's rivals.
Rojas also asked why the Sheriff's Department had=2 0not returned Gutierrez's wallet to his mother.
Gutierrez was shot and killed by plainclothes deputies on his way home from taking a driver's license test.
The WPD's findings state Gutierrez was stopped near the 113 overpass. Gutierrez reportedly ran from the deputies for about 200 feet, then turned and attacked Sgt. Dale Johnson with a knife. Johnson dodged the attack, and fellow deputy Herman Oviedo drew his service pistol and fired two rounds at Gutierrez. Johnson then fired four rounds at Gutierrez.
One of the rounds hit Gutierrez in the back of his right shoulder; the bullet exited through the left side of his jaw.
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