[FRIAM] Fwd: ALL OUT! Valente and Orlando were murdered by APD. Join their families TODAY to demand justice!

Thu Jun 25 15:17:18 EDT 2020

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Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:47 PM
Subject: ALL OUT! Valente and Orlando were murdered by APD. Join their
families TODAY to demand justice!
To: Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>

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March/Rally: Fire & Charge APD Killer Cops! Justice for Families! THURSDAY,
JUNE 25, 2020 AT 6 PM – 8 PM

*Gather at Albuquerque Police Department*
*Downtown, on Roma between 4th/5th Streets*

*CALL TO ACTION: FIRE, ARREST AND CHARGE THE APD POLICE OFFICERS THAT
MURDERED ORLANDO ABEYTA AND VALENTE ACOSTA-BUSTILLOS!*
*ENDORSED BY:*

   - The family of Valente Acosta-Bustillos, murdered by APD on March 30,
   2020
   - Valerie Abeita, mother of Orlando Abeyta, murdered by APD on Jan. 6,
   2020, on behalf of family
   - Mike Gomez, father of Alan Gomez, murdered by APD in 2011
   - Stephen Torres, father of Christopher Torres, murdered by APD in 2011
   - The Saiz Family; MargaretAnn Saiz, mother of Dominic Smith, murdered
   by APD in 2009
   - National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees (NUHHCE) District
   1199NM UNMH Chapter
   - Renee Toya-Bouvier Renato Estacio, LGBTQIA activist
   - Sally-Alice Thompson, legendary antiwar activist
   - Fonda Osborn, retired nurse and activist
   - Kevin Parkman, retired machinist industrial worker and activist

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The movement for Black lives has given rise to a nationwide revolt against
racism and police brutality and is raising new calls for justice for
victims of police terror. Here in Albuquerque, racist police continue to
get away with murder, keep their jobs and walk our streets! The families of
those whom the police murder and brutalize continue to be denied the most
basic justice!

*Earlier this year, Orlando Abeyta and Valente Acosta-Bustillos were
brutally murdered by APD. Orlando, a homeless Native youth, was gunned down
by police without warning for holding a BB gun. Valente, a Latino senior
with a known history of mental illness, was shot and killed because he was
holding a gardening shovel during a welfare check.*

*Join us this Thursday, June 25 at 6:00pm for a march/rally to demand that
the officers involved in these senseless murders are immediately fired,
charged and brought to trial! We demand justice for their families, and the
families of all victims of police brutality!*
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The Department of Justice reforms have not been able to bring justice. The
City Council and mayor’s reforms amount to biting-around-the-edges, and
have not been able to bring justice either. How do we know? Because even
though they rewrote the police rule book, the police are still shooting
people at the same rate and they are still getting away with it! Up till
today, no police officer in Albuquerque’s history has ever been sent to
prison for killing someone, even though New Mexico - in which Albuquerque
is the largest city - routinely has one of the highest rates of
“officer-involved-shootings” in the country.

The first victim of APD in 2020 was Orlanda Abeyta, 28-year-old Native
American man who grew up in To’Hajiilee. On Jan. 6, two undercover members
of the gang unit gunned Orlando down in broad daylight at a bus stop along
Central and San Pedro. He was holding a BB gun, talking with friends when
officers sped up and jumped out with assault rifles. Four seconds later,
without having moved a muscle, Orlando was shot 8 times. Orlando’s friend
cried out in complete shock and anger as the police gunman approached, “He
was just playing around!” But these APD officers were eager to use deadly
force because Orlando was Native and homeless.

Not long after that, on March 30, APD murdered 52-year-old Valente
Acosta-Bustillos during a “welfare” check. Valente was doing yard work when
two officers walked onto his property, shot and killed him, later stating
that his gardening shovel made them “fear for their lives.” (
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Valente had been diagnosed previously with a mental health disorder. APD
knew about it. They killed him anyway, just like they killed James Boyd in
2014.

In both cases, none of the officers were fired, arrested or charged!
Instead, they intend for these cases, like so many others, to “remain under
investigation” by a pro-cop District Attorney’s office for months and
months without any charges ever being filed.

*Compare APD’s escalation and use of deadly force against Orlando and
Valente with their calm and gentle treatment of the racist militia and
vigilantes that harassed and shot at anti-racist protestors demanding that
the statue of genocidal slave-trader Juan de Onate be removed.*

The same District Attorney’s office that has refused to charge the officers
that killed Orlando and Valante, has now also dropped the shooting charge
against the racist vigilante that opened fire on the protesters! Nothing
could better illustrate the relationship between cops and racist mobs in
the United States: they work hand-in-hand against the movement of the
people.

White supremacy is embedded in the fabric of this society and we must fight
together to change this system into one that puts dignity and human life
above all else.

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