Mission Local reports:
Protesters have blocked traffic with street theater and chained themselves to Mission Police Station as part of an action against officer-involved shootings in the city and in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The roughly 100 activists began arriving at about 7 a.m. to mark the one year anniversary of the police shooting of Alex Nieto. They were joined by Nieto’s parents and the youth rhythm and dance ensemble Loco Bloco.
10 of the protesters joined hands through tubing and chained themselves to the Valencia street exit of the Mission Station parking lot. Public Information Officer Albie Esparza said the action is not interfering with their ability to respond to calls for service with the vehicles they already have out and about. Esparza said the police do not currently have plans to take action against protesters and are simply monitoring their “First Amendment rights activity.”
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How hard is it for these morons to understand that if you flash a gun, act crazy, ignore the police things will NOT end well?
Where was this support for Nieto when he actually needed help?
Sad to take advantage of his poor soul.
Not surprising that you’ve chosen to lie about the circumstances of Nieto’s death.
How is this lying?
http://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/
Shot 14 times for carrying a legal work issued taser which was never raised or pointed at the police.
Maybe if the second round of shots were not fired, he might be alive today…
We know witnesses called police to report a person behaving “erratically” with a “gun”. That isn’t in question. We know the taser was not in its holster, and that it was discharged.
After the fact, we know he had a history of mental illness, including attacking a friend of his. We know he had marijuana in his system at the time (but it’s unclear if he was actually under the influence of it).
There’s no huge leap to believe the official version of events based on facts that are indisputable. It’s unfortunate, but I can easily believe the cops thought he had a gun and was about to shoot.
Thats right the cops just itching to kill any person of color! Fucking killers! Killers killers killers!! All they thinking about day and night is killing peopel. Kill em bad. Fuck the police
@of course: well you can (and will) believe whatever you want, but this story has obviously become more about certain people’s political agendas than the facts (which are well established and don’t support your views)
Well said.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. The Nieto shooting was a bad shooting. The fact that the killers have not been fired and prosecuted is an egregious miscarriage of justice.
“Esparza said the police do not currently have plans to take action against protesters and are simply monitoring their “First Amendment rights activity.”
IE- we just had had shift change and don’t need them to move for another 11 hours
And of course the usual group of gentrifiers protesting gentrification.
So ten young women illegally chain themselves to the gate of a police station, but face no serious consequences as a result of their actions. The only thing they demonstrated today was the privileges bestowed upon them as white Americans.
Fo shizzle