Modesto Police shot and killed Sammy Galvan, for having a Swiss
Army knife during a domestic call. According to witnesses, he possed no
threat to law enforcement.
*Note, this event is not being organized by the DAAA Collective, but we will be supporting it.*
When: Saturday Jan 15th
Time: 10am
Where: Graceada Park, Needham Street
What: Rally against police brutality and shootings in Modesto. March to protest the Modesto Police Department
Since 2000, 8 people have died at the hands of the Modesto Police
Department. All but one have been a white person, (a shoot out with a
jewel thief, in which the only partial injuries to police happened),
and have all taken part in Modesto's poorer areas.
The most recent victim of the Modesto Police Department has been Sammy
Galvan, who was shoot to death in August 2004. Police responded to a
domestic disturbance call in which Sammy and his girlfriend had been
fighting, and Sammy according to police came out with a small Swiss
Army knife. According to the two police officers, he attacked them,
(although no officers were hurt), and Sammy was then shot in the chest,
and then died.
But neighbors tell a very different story, according to a Modesto Bee
article in August 26th, 2004. "They came out of the car. They saw him
there. He just sat there, and all of a sudden they shoot him," Tony
Martinez said. Galvan was holding a small Buck pocketknife, Martinez
said, but made no threatening moves at all: "This guy was standing
there in one spot." According to Tony, about 15-10 people watched the
event happen, although police claim there were hardly any onlookers.
This isn't the first time police in Modesto have murdered. In 2001 they
shot a 11 year old boy in a house that was suspected of producing meth,
(but was later found to have none), by a officer that had left the
Stockton Police after shooting a person in a raid, who had "already
committed suicide". This officer is still working on the force.
In April of 2003, two officers killed Eustolio Aguilar after the
22-year-old Modesto man was stopped by police and reached for his cell
phone, and was then shot to death. After the police searched the body,
they "found" a gun on his person.
This is not counting of course the continued harassment of homeless
people, anarchists and other activists, and youth in the downtown area
of Modesto.
8 dead since 2000 is enough! End the brutality, end the harrassment,
end the murder! Protest and march against the Modesto Police Department!
DAAA Collective - Modesto CA
www.modanarcho.tk
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