{"article":{"id":16480,"heading":"Bloomfield, New Jersey. Cop killling of Santiago Villanueva","author":"Victor Chernov","created":"2002-05-06 14:51:49","modified":"2002-05-06 16:00:13","last_modified":"Mon, 06 May 2002 23:00:13","article":"

Features from May 1 2002 until May 31 2002 POLICE BRUTALITY May 4 2002

Santiago Villanueva killed by Bloomfield cops

On Tuesday, April 16, Santiago (Chago) Villanueva, a community activist and

musician in an Afro-Dominican cultural\/music group, Pa' lo monte, was

murdered by police officers of Bloomfield, New Jersey. Chago was epileptic

and had a very strong seizure while he was at work. His co-workers called an

ambulance, but the police came first. They hand-cuffed him, shouted

profanities and said he was a drug addict, demanded that he and his

co-workers speak English, and then forced him to the ground and sat on top

of him until he stopped breathing. All this took place while his co-workers

demanded that the police stop and tried to explain to them that he was

suffering from a seizure. Chago lived in Washington Heights,NY.

For more information, please call the Center for Immigrant Families at

212-531-3011

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