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Another Police Killing of an Unarmed Youth in Los Angeles County—WTF!!
April 28, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Hector Morejon with his mother
On Thursday, April 23, 19-year old Hector Morejon, who was unarmed, was shot and killed by the Long Beach Police in an area known as "Cambodia Town," 24 miles south of downtown Los Angles. The cops shot Hector through a window of an apartment they thought was being "vandalized." It was right next to Hector's home, where his mother came out after hearing gun shots to see Hector laying in an ambulance and crying out, "Mommy, mommy, please come, please come,"
The pigs are justifying their killing, as they usually do, by claiming they thought Hector had a gun, and now they are vilifying Hector by claiming that he had gang affiliations, just because there was some sort of graffiti they labeled as "gang graffiti" close by to where he was killed. His family said that Hector had no gang affiliation or ties.
Hector's mother is calling for an investigation into the cops shooting and killing of her unarmed son that does not include the Long Beach Police Department.
The Los Angeles Times reported that "from January 2000 to Monday, 41 people have been killed in officer-involved shootings in Long Beach, which is in Los Angeles County. (See http://homicide.latimes.com/neighborhood/long-beach)
How many more of our beautiful children are going to be killed by the pigs before we put a stop to this? From Baltimore to Ferguson to Long Beach people have to be out in the streets putting their bodies against the gears of this society in protest against this genocidal program that is murdering and incarcerating our youth. There is nothing legitimate about the police killing the masses of people in this country and we have to do something about it. We have right on our side and we need to build this into a massive struggle that will sweep this system and its murdering thugs in blue uniform out of here and bring into being a new society where the lives of our youth are respected and where those who are actually "serving and protecting" the people would rather be harmed, themselves, than to harm the people.
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