So what was he doing in this country? Maybe this will scare folks into NOT coming here illegally?
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> From: "Gary" <garyrumor2@...>
> To: <Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 5:33 PM
> Subject: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Guatamalan Immigrant Shot Dead By
> LAPD
>
>
> Guatamalan Immigrant Killed By Los Angeles Police
> September 9th, 2010
>
> Today on KPFK, local Pacifica station, they were interviewing an activist
> who went to a community meeting last night to try to come up with an action
> plan regarding the shooting of Manuel Jamines. She said no resolution was
> made. I am not sure if she was talking about the meeting with the Police
> Chief or another meeting. Below are several local sources for information on
> the subject. It seems police murder of minorities with knives is becoming an
> epidemic. One witness who does not want to be identified claims that Manuel
> did not have a knife.
>
> "PSL demands justice for Manuel Jamines,
> Immigrant worker killed by LAPD
> Statement issued by the PSL in Los Angeles
>
> The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns unconditionally the LAPD for
> the murder of Manuel Jamines, a Guatemalan immigrant day laborer and father.
> We send our sincere condolences to his family, neighbors and friends.
>
> The LAPD claims it was called to the scene on Sunday, Sept. 5 because
> Jamines was allegedly drunk in public and had a knife. The LAPD is highly
> trained in "non-lethal" tactics, yet their first response was to shoot
> Jamines twice in the head. While the police version of events is in
> question-some witnesses said Jamines had no knife at all-there is no
> question that Jamines did not deserve to die. The cops killed Jamines on a
> busy street corner in the immigrant Westlake neighborhood near downtown Los
> Angeles.
>
> The killing ignited a firestorm of justified anger in the Guatemalan
> immigrant community. As hundreds protested the killing on two successive
> nights, cops beat and arrested over 20 people and fired rubber bullets
> indiscriminately, leaving many bloodied on the ground. The LAPD, along with
> the LA Times, tried to blame the protesters for the police violence against
> them.
> It is the same argument that LAPD brass and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made
> after Jamines was killed-they said that his death was somehow his fault.
> They presented the facts as though the cops had no choice but to shoot him
> at close range. This is what they are still saying, although, in a clear
> response to the community uprising, now the top cops and politicians are
> emphasizing the need for a "thorough investigation."
>
> To the police and their media apologists, maximum violence, including
> murder, is perfectly fine if carried out by the LAPD, but any violence or
> fight back by oppressed people is an obvious crime. This false view turns
> reality on its head. The Guatemalan community did not buy it for a moment.
>
> Organize and fight back
>
> Last night, Sept. 8, the LAPD held a "town hall" meeting. It did not go as
> the police planned. It was a clear effort to pacify the community anger. But
> LAPD Chief Charlie Beck was booed loudly by the crowd of 300 community
> members. He was forced to stop speaking several times as people yelled
> "justice" and called the police "assassins" and "killers" in Spanish. The
> Associated Press and other major media outlets covered the meeting.
>
> PSL member and community activist Marcial Guerra spoke at the event (see the
> photo above), railing at the police for their assassination of Jamines. "You
> will not quell the anger of our community with your lies and false promises.
> These racist killings, police raids and attacks on immigrants must end. The
> officers who assassinated Jamines must be brought to justice now," Guerra
> said to massive applause. Other community members spoke out bravely against
> the cops during the meeting as well.
>
> After the town hall meeting, hundreds of people gathered again where Jamines
> was killed, and the cops launched another unprovoked attack on the crowd by
> firing concussion grenades and rioting, chasing people in the now heavily
> militarized area.
>
> The brutally excessive use of force by the LAPD on oppressed people, like
> Jamines, is the norm, not the exception. This is the case not only in Los
> Angeles, but in poor communities across the country. It is not a case of
> just one or two "bad cops" or the result of "unfortunate mistakes."
>
> Cops are not in communities to solve problems or protect people. They exist
> to enforce the exploitation of the poor and protect and preserve the
> capitalist state. Police brutality is a preferred form of social and
> economic control in the United States.
>
> The officers responsible for the death of Manuel Jamines should be fired,
> arrested and held without bail, and tried for murder. This is how anyone
> else-other than a cop-would be treated by the capitalist state. But this
> will not happen on its own or after the LAPD's sham investigation.
>
> In this case, the killer cop is a repeat offender. LAPD officer Samuel
> Hernandez, who killed Jamines, has been put on forced leave twice before for
> shooting other people. But cops get promoted and rewarded for using deadly
> force, while their victims get branded as criminals.
>
> The only way there will be justice for Jamines, his family, and the
> community is if we organize together and demand it. For our part, the PSL
> will continue to work with the Guatemalan community and grassroots
> organizations to win this fight.
>
> Stop police violence! Jail killer cops! Justice for Manuel Jamines!"
>
> This is from the LA Times Opinion Page
>
> "Chief Beck's challenge
> Every LAPD chief, it seems, is tested by crisis. The shooting death of a day
> laborer is shaping up to be that test for new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.
> September 10, 2010
> Sooner or later, every chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is tested.
>
> For Chief Bernard C. Parks, the aftermath of the police brutality and
> corruption scandal in the Rampart Division was such a test. For Chief
> William J. Bratton, the May Day 2007 melee in MacArthur Park, and the
> shooting deaths of 13-year-old Devin Brown and 19-month-old Suzie Pena,
> provoked crises. For Chief Charlie Beck, the shooting of Manuel Jamines, a
> Guatemalan-born day laborer who police say was wielding a knife, is shaping
> up to be his first such test. Like his predecessors, Beck will be called on
> to find the right balance between crime-fighting and community relations,
> and to steer the evolving LAPD through the complicated politics of L.A.'s
> multilayered racial and ethnic cultures.
>
> Beck is no newcomer to such crises. As captain of the Rampart Division, he
> worked closely with business owners and residents to restore confidence
> after the scandal. Under his leadership, MacArthur Park was reclaimed after
> the fracas there, and a gang-plagued drug market was transformed into a safe
> community resource.
>
> That history did not help him, however, as he addressed an angry throng at
> John H. Liechty Middle School on Wednesday night. He was booed, denounced as
> the protector of a killer and as a chief of assassins. In response, Beck
> promised a fair and transparent investigation that would determine whether
> the shooting was within departmental policy. It was the right message, no
> doubt, but his words struck a clinical, dispassionate note to a crowd
> shouting for justice. To them, Beck did not seem to be addressing the
> fundamental question, which was not whether the shooting was justifiable
> according to the rules, but whether it was just.
>
> Still, Beck's assurance is important, because many questions about the
> incident remain: Was Jamines threatening or attacking passersby? Did he
> menace police officers with a knife? In the 40 seconds Beck says they had to
> make a decision, could officers have made one that did not involve deadly
> force?
>
> Even when those questions are answered, there will be grievances that go far
> beyond the shooting. One woman in Wednesday's audience tried to explain to
> the chief the conditions that force mass migration from Guatemala and El
> Salvador. Another begged Beck not to deport people arrested in the upheaval.
> Several residents spoke bitterly about racial profiling, and, after the
> session, others talked of an anti-Latino mood in California and nationwide
> that frightens them, and about soaring joblessness and economic desperation.
>
> Wednesday's gathering brought little satisfaction to either side. But Beck
> will have other opportunities to improve the dialogue. In one of Los
> Angeles' most familiar rituals, officials assured the crowd that before the
> case was closed, there would surely be other such community meetings.
> Copyright © 2010, Los Angeles Times
>
> Local ABC affiliate abc7.com has stated that a band of Anarchists joined the
> protests. Their website has a photo gallery of the protests.
> http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/gallery?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7657984&photo=1
>
> CBS affiliate is calling it outside agitators stirring the pot.
> http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/
> On their website they have this AP story.
>
> "LAPD Protesters Plead Not Guilty
>
> September 9, 2010 3:06 PM
> Man Watches As Police Put Out Fire
>
> LOS ANGELES (AP) -Two Los Angeles men have pleaded not guilty
> to illegally setting a fire during a violent protest over the
> police shooting of a knife-wielding man.
>
> The city attorney's office says 24-year-old Carlos Garcia and
> 25-year-old Fernando Aguila entered pleas Thursday to two
> misdemeanor charges each.
>
> If convicted, they could each face up to
> 180 days in Los Angeles County jail and a $1,000 fine.
> Both men have been released from jail and authorities did not
> immediately know whether they have obtained lawyers.
>
> Prosecutors claim the pair lit a bonfire and threw wood on the
> blaze Monday night in the first protest of the shooting of
> 37-year-old Manuel Jamines on Sunday.
>
> Police and the mayor have defended the actions of an officer who
> responded to a report that a man was threatening people with a
> knife.
> (© Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.)
>
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