Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:08:33 -0800
From: amandla_now@...
Subject: Service for Dontaze Storey and Victims
of Police Murder Set For January 10th
To: amandla_now@...

For Immediate Realase- January 5, 2009

Contact: Kokayi Kwa Jitahidi (714) 612-0366

Memorial Service for Dontaze Storey and Other
Victims of Police Murder Set For January 10th

Los Angeles – Family and friends of Dontaze
Storey, a 29-year old unarmed Black man who was
killed by LAPD officers Oliver Malabuya and
Daniel Bunch on Veterans’ Day, will have a
memorial service on Saturday, January 10th, at
KRST Unity Center (7825 S. Western Ave., Los
Angeles). The service will start at 12 pm.

Organizers of the memorial, which include
Storey’s family and the Coalition for Justice
Against Police Murder are also inviting other
families of police murder victims to attend and
provide testimony. Elected officials and
community leaders are being invited also.

“While we are grieving about Dontaze, we know he
was not the first unarmed victim of police
murder” stated Atun Re Baker, Dontaze’s uncle.
“Hopefully, we can work to make sure this doesn’t happen ever again.”

The officers that killed Dontaze Storey were from
the Rampart Division, which has been involved in
several incidents of murder and malpractice over
the years. Some of the examples include:

1. 1996 – Rampart Officer Perez shot 19 year
old Javier Ovando in chest and head while he was
handcuffed. Mr. Ovando became paralyzed

2. 1997 – Testimony revealed that Rampart
officers were involved in the shooting death of
Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace

3. 1998 – Rampart CRASH officer Brian Hewitt
beat a handcuffed Ishmael Jimenez – making the
victim vomit blood. Hewitt was later fired

4. 2007 – Rampart officers shot and kill 24
year old Matthew Powell while he was face down in a fetal position


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