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; Mexican Consul Criticizes
L.A. Killings by Law Officers
*"•"<**.£*■ B»
m Law enforcement: He
charges that police and
.sheriffs deputies
•repeatedly use excessive
force against immigrants.
By HECTOR TOBAR
TIMES STAFF WJUTER
Appearing at a press conference
! Tuesday with the relatives of several Mexican immigrants killed by
authorities, the Mexican consul
general in Los Angeles criticized
local law enforcement officials,
saying they repeatedly use excessive force against Mexican citizens.
Jose Angel Pescador Osuna singled out the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department and the Los
Angeles Police Department, two
agencies that he said were responsible for the deaths of six Mexican
citizens in the last 12 months.
"Sheriff and LAPD officers have
shot honest people with no criminal record," Pescador said. "Perhaps these Mexican citizens were
violating the law, but their actions
do not justify the loss of their lives
as punishment, a gross violation of
their basic human rights."
The most recent death, the consul general said, occurred Saturday
in Cudahy when deputies were
summoned to a domestic dispute at
the home of Emiliano Camacho.
Camacho, 40, was shot and killed
by deputies when he appeared at
the front door holding a "rifle-like"
object, authorities said. The object
later turned out to be a 2V£-foot-
long wooden club, a sheriff's
spokesman said.
Camacho's widow said she is
considering legal action.
"I hope there will be justice,"
Evangelina Camacho said in Spanish. "Why did they kill my husband
and leave my [three] children
without a father?"
Capt. Ramon Sanchez of the
sheriff's East Los Angeles station
said the deputies' actions were
justified because they feared for
their safety.
Sanchez added that he was irritated by Pescador's statements
linking the Camacho shooting to
other incidents involving Mexican
citizens.
"They're implying that there are
racial overtones and that's ridiculous," Sanchez said.
Pescador provided a list of 16
incidents throughout Southern
California in which the consulate is
investigating allegations of excessive use of force by law officers.
In response to one of those
incidents earlier this year, the
consulate sent a formal letter to
Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F.
Gates to protest the shooting death
of Nicolas Contreras in South-Central Los Angeles. Contreras was
shot by officers who said the
Mexican immigrant had threatened
them with a gun he was firing into
the air during a New Year's Eve
celebration.
The consul general said he was
not satisfied with the response that
police officials gave to his request
for an investigation into the shooting of Contreras and other Mexican
citizens.
"Until this date, all the petitions
for a thorough investigation . . .
have not obtained results," Pescador said. "It is not possible that
every death of a Mexican national
becomes just another file."
Los Angeles police spokesman
Lt. Fred Nixon declined to comment Tuesday, saying he had not
, reviewed the consul's statements,
which were made at a late-afternoon press conference.
Pescador also provided reporters
a copy of a letter he sent Tuesday
to the Mexican secretariat of foreign affairs. The letter asks that
the Mexican government request
through diplomatic channels a U.S.
Department of Justice investigation into alleged police misconduct
against Mexican citizens in
Southern cmenm,
Object Description
| Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991 |
| Description | Newspaper clippings (Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Daily News, New York Times, Sentinel) and magazine articles (U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek) documenting Los Angeles Police Department misconduct under Chief Daryl F. Gates, 1978-1991, compiled by Irving Kessler and Lynn F. Kessler. Includes: Introduction, Contents, Excessive force, Rodney King, Mexican nationality, Civil rights, Property, Silence, Discrimination, Accountability, Gates intolerance, Recommendations. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. |
| Coverage date | 1978/1991 |
| Creator |
Kessler, Irving, compiler Kessler, Lynn F., compiler |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Los Angeles Times; L.A. Weekly; U.S. News & World Report; Los Angeles Daily News; New York Times; Newsweek; Sentinel |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA; Washington, DC, USA; New York, New York, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991 |
| Date issued | 1978/1991 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 368 p. |
| Format (aat) |
clippings (information artifacts) articles summaries |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Independent Commission File List |
| File | Complaints, suggestions, and support |
| Box and folder | box 23, folders 7-9 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box23-07_09 |
Description
| Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991, p. 214 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | ; Mexican Consul Criticizes L.A. Killings by Law Officers *"•"<**.£*■ B» m Law enforcement: He charges that police and .sheriffs deputies •repeatedly use excessive force against immigrants. By HECTOR TOBAR TIMES STAFF WJUTER Appearing at a press conference ! Tuesday with the relatives of several Mexican immigrants killed by authorities, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles criticized local law enforcement officials, saying they repeatedly use excessive force against Mexican citizens. Jose Angel Pescador Osuna singled out the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, two agencies that he said were responsible for the deaths of six Mexican citizens in the last 12 months. "Sheriff and LAPD officers have shot honest people with no criminal record," Pescador said. "Perhaps these Mexican citizens were violating the law, but their actions do not justify the loss of their lives as punishment, a gross violation of their basic human rights." The most recent death, the consul general said, occurred Saturday in Cudahy when deputies were summoned to a domestic dispute at the home of Emiliano Camacho. Camacho, 40, was shot and killed by deputies when he appeared at the front door holding a "rifle-like" object, authorities said. The object later turned out to be a 2V£-foot- long wooden club, a sheriff's spokesman said. Camacho's widow said she is considering legal action. "I hope there will be justice," Evangelina Camacho said in Spanish. "Why did they kill my husband and leave my [three] children without a father?" Capt. Ramon Sanchez of the sheriff's East Los Angeles station said the deputies' actions were justified because they feared for their safety. Sanchez added that he was irritated by Pescador's statements linking the Camacho shooting to other incidents involving Mexican citizens. "They're implying that there are racial overtones and that's ridiculous," Sanchez said. Pescador provided a list of 16 incidents throughout Southern California in which the consulate is investigating allegations of excessive use of force by law officers. In response to one of those incidents earlier this year, the consulate sent a formal letter to Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates to protest the shooting death of Nicolas Contreras in South-Central Los Angeles. Contreras was shot by officers who said the Mexican immigrant had threatened them with a gun he was firing into the air during a New Year's Eve celebration. The consul general said he was not satisfied with the response that police officials gave to his request for an investigation into the shooting of Contreras and other Mexican citizens. "Until this date, all the petitions for a thorough investigation . . . have not obtained results," Pescador said. "It is not possible that every death of a Mexican national becomes just another file." Los Angeles police spokesman Lt. Fred Nixon declined to comment Tuesday, saying he had not , reviewed the consul's statements, which were made at a late-afternoon press conference. Pescador also provided reporters a copy of a letter he sent Tuesday to the Mexican secretariat of foreign affairs. The letter asks that the Mexican government request through diplomatic channels a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into alleged police misconduct against Mexican citizens in Southern cmenm, |
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