Tag: police shooting
Mission protest marks one-year anniversary of Alex Nieto’s death
March 23, 2015
Demonstrators shut down a section of Valencia Street Monday morning and chained themselves to the gate of the Mission police station to protest the March 21, 2014 police shooting of Alex Nieto in a Bernal Heights park. Last month, prosecutors cleared the four officers involved in Nieto’s death of wrongdoing.
Officer involved shooting on Valencia Street
January 5, 2015
SECOND UPDATE: 8:33 p.m., Jan. 5. Police have released a suicide note they said was found on the dead man’s phone. Beginning with “Dear officers,” it reads: You did nothing wrong. You ended the life of a man who was too much of a coward to do it himself. I provoked you. I threatened your […]