Daily Democrat: Family supporters to march June 6 (laying down on his belly when he was shot)

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_12484488

By JAKE DORSEY
Created: 05/30/2009 02:31:04 AM PDT


Supporters of Luis Gutierrez, who was shot and killed by Yolo County Sheriff's deputies April 30, plan to march through part of Woodland in his memory.

The June 6 march will start at 7 p.m. beginning at the Woodland Department of Motor Vehicles office at 825 East St., according to Al Rojas, an immigrant rights activist and former UFW organizer who is supporting Gutierrez's family. The march will travel east on East Gum Avenue until it reaches the Highway 113 overpass, where Gutierrez, 26, was killed.


The march will then turn into a candlelight vigil scheduled to last until 9 p.m.


Participants are asked to wear a white T-shirt, Rojas said. All are welcome to attend.


The news came out of a community meeting held Thursday night at the Community & Senior Center at 2001 East St. The meeting was billed as a question-and-answer session for the community, though few questions were asked.


Rojas said the county's gang task force, made up of Woodland police officers and Yolo County Sheriff's deputies, should not be able to violate the civil rights of the community. He accused the unit of stopping people of color to justify crime statistics and protect federal grant money.


"We're going to investigate that," Rojas told a crowd of about 100 people.


Mark Merin and associate Josh Kaizuka, civil rights attorneys from Sacramento, said Gutierrez might have been laying down on his belly when he was shot. He cited the full autopsy report that stated bullet fragments were found the exit wound of Gutierrez's face, and hypothesized the fragments could have ricocheted from the ground.

"We want an independent investigation at the highest level," Merin said. "I don't know who would be responsive to this type of investigation, but it should be someone outside of Yolo County. They shouldn't be doing it themselves."

FULL story at link.

"The autopsy report found that Gutierrez had been struck by one round, and the "entrance wound was reported to be at the right posterior upper back."

LaBrash has said the bullet likely entered his back because he was spinning as he swung at one of the deputies with the knife."

If you persist in portraying every case of a criminal's death as some conspiracy by the police, you will not make the police departments of the nation more accountable, you will simply make the public less interested in the cases which might have merit.

No way will this young man get any real investigation of his death done by the corrupt kops in that rich-boy, white farmer's county. Thankfully I don't live there anymore. The cops will be all over these protesters like hicks on a dog.I hope they bring video cameras.

I posted the story and an opinion in the title.

There are however many cases where local police do wrong: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10641921

Keeping an eye on police is a duty as well as a right.

Sorry.