{"article":{"id":16440,"heading":"Orange County Police Brutality Protest This TUESDAY MAY 7 at 5:00 PM!!!!!","author":"tbboycott@yahoo.com","created":"2002-05-05 17:29:30","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Violations of Civil and Human Rights Abuses <br><br> Protest &amp; Vigil Against Placentia Police Dempartment <br>  <br> Protest &amp; Vigil:  5pm <br>  <br> Press Conf:  5:30pm <br>  <br> City Council meeting: 7:00 PM <br>  <br> Tuesday May 7 <br><br> Contact: <br>  <br> Olga Vega - 714 996-1481 <br>  <br> Roger Nicanor - 714 557-2944 <br>  <br> OC Revolutionary Collective - 714-303-0004 <br><br> Placentia Police Dept. (corner of Chapman &amp; Kramer) <br>  <br> 401 Chapman <br>  <br> Placentia, CA <br><br> Take the 5 to the 57 North <br>  <br> Exit Chapman and go EAST <br>  <br> The police station is on the left hand side on the corner of CHAPMAN and  <br>  <br> Kramer <br><br> \"At times when we are under the hands of higher authority - as residents and  <br>  <br> citizens our rights can be diminished at any given moment\" <br>  <br>                          -Roger Nicanor <br><br> DEMANDS FROM PLACENTIA RESIDENT TO THE PLACENTIA POLICE DEPARTMENT <br>  <br> 1) Make public all statistics and numbers of complaints that are filed  <br>  <br> against Placentia PD on a regular basis <br>  <br> 2) Russle Rice who is chief of police needs to immediately meet with  <br>  <br> residents and victims of police abuse to discuss police harrasment,  <br>  <br> brutality, misconduct, and abuse <br>  <br> 3) Allow for a civilian police commission to be placed over the Placentia PD  <br>  <br> to be able to operate as a review board <br>  <br> 4) Investigate ALL police misconduct reports and complaints that are filed  <br>  <br> against the Placentia PD <br>  <br> 5) Stop the racial profiling, brutality, harassment, and targeting of South  <br>  <br> Placentia residents. Police abuse and misconduct targets South Placentia  <br>  <br> over North Placentia (South Placentia is a predominantly people of  <br>  <br> color\/working class community) <br><br> \"I have no idea why they are targeting us, I have no idea why I can't walk  <br>  <br> down the street, or my 10 year old brother can't go outside without having  <br>  <br> the police ask him what gang he belongs to\" <br>  <br>                                   Mishy Rodriguez <br><br> \"Even the children are scared of these racist cops, even they know that  <br>  <br> something is wrong in Placentia, because all they have to is wake up in the  <br>  <br> morning and look around and they can see what is happening in all over their  <br>  <br> neighborhoods\" <br>  <br>                                   Naui Huitzilopochtli <br><br>  <br>  <br> Olga Vega, a 45 year old Placentia Resident, will give testimony as she has  <br>  <br> witnessed the police brutality in her community for many years and now she  <br>  <br> speaks for those whom are unable. <br><br> Roger Nicanor, a 19 year old Santa Ana Resident, will give testimony in his  <br>  <br> recent incident with the PPD at a private gathering in Placentia which led  <br>  <br> to a police raid and arrest of many young men and women whose civil rights  <br>  <br> were violated. <br><br> Mishy Rodriguez, a 22 year old College Student from Placentia has repeatedly  <br>  <br> seen both young and old people in her community being pulled over and even  <br>  <br> as recently as 5 weeks ago has seen the beating of a young women in her  <br>  <br> neighborhood of South Placentia. She is sick of this happening, and believes  <br>  <br> that residents need to come together to only educate themselves but actually  <br>  <br> start empowering one another and themselves. \"There is no reason why we  <br>  <br> should be ashamed or scared like this\" <br><br> Others will speak upon how Immigrant and Indigenous Women do not feel safe  <br>  <br> in their communities in Orange County due to the INS' involvement with <br>  <br> the Anaheim Police Dept. <br><br> THIS EVENT IS A PEACEFUL POLICE BRUTALITY PROTEST, ONE ORGANIZED NOT BY ANY  <br>  <br> ORGANIZATION BUT ACTUALLY PUT ON BY THE COMMUNITY ITSELF FOR THE COMMUNITY.  <br>  <br> WE ASK THAT PEOPLE RESPECT THIS, AND KEEP THIS A PEACEFUL EVENT. THERE WILL  <br>  <br> BE CHILDREN AND MANY FAMILIES PRESENT, SO PLEASE KEEP THE DRAMA AND ANY  <br>  <br> PERSONAL IDEOLOGY AND WAYS OF BRINGING FORTH ACTION OUT OF THIS EVENT. THIS <br>  <br> IS A PEACEFUL EVENT TO BRING TOGETHER THE ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY AGAINST  <br>  <br> POLICE ABUSE. <br><br>  <br><br>  <br><br>  <br>  <br> \"I will say this, at the risk of sounding ridiculous, but a true  <br>  <br> revolutionary is motivated only by love.\" <br>  <br> ~~Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara~~ <br><br>  <br>  <br> \"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. <br>  <br> Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed <br>  <br> the dictates of the leaders of  their government and have gone to war, <br>  <br> and millions have  been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is  <br>  <br> that people are obedient all over the world in the face of  poverty and  <br>  <br> starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people  <br>  <br> are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while  <br>  <br> the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem.\" <br><br>                  Howard Zinn,  \"Failure to Quit\", p. 45 <br><br>  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"tbboycott@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"none","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"STOP POLICE BRUTALITY!!","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2002\/05\/orange_cou.txt","filesize":"4.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2002\/05\/16440.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}