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2016-10-15 01:14 PM
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pfont size="4"Family of Luis Demetrio Goacute;ngora Pat, a Mayan, indigenous father,nbsp;/fontfont size="4"husband,/fontfont size="4"brother, son and uncle,refute the biased autopsy report released by the San Francisco Medical Examiner on the six month anniversary of his murder by SFPD officers. They also plan a march to celebrate his life./font/p
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ldquo;It is unjust that my cousin was killed so cruelly by SFPD. The police should be here to help, not to destroy, but the greatest concern is that he was killed within less than thirty seconds. My cousin spoke Mayan. He could not understand the commands given by the officers, said Luis Poot Pat, one of Luis Demetrio#39;s cousins who spoke in response to the San Francisco medical examiner#39;s report on the murder by police of his unarmed, unhoused cousin Luis Demetrio Goacute;ngora Pat released on September 29th.nbsp;br /
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On the 6th month anniversary of Luis#39;s killing, and in response to the biased and untrue statements in the autopsy report, the family and their supporters in the Justice Honor for Luis Goacute;ngora Pat Coalition feel it is necessary to hold a press conference to set the record straight and refute the insults about this innocent, unarmed, peaceful father, brother, husband who was unhoused and unarmed at the time of his brutal murder by police.nbsp;/div
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span class="m_-6262327262886080178m_-6282921914050080973m_5467033011463433083m_-6834345449292812944m_-5539523642332939540gmail-im"bBackground on the Medical Examiners Report/bbr /
The Office of the Medical Examiner of San Francisco released an autopsy report on September 29th related to the killing by SFPD officers on April 7th, 2016 of Luiacute;s Goacute;ngora Pat. The report confirms that Luisrsquo;s cause of death was homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds intentionally inflicted by Sergeant Nate Steger and Officer Michael Mellone. The body showed bean bag bruises and bullet wounds to the back, followed by an execution style shot to the head with a steep downward trajectory (Luisspan class="m_-6262327262886080178m_-6282921914050080973m_5467033011463433083m_-6834345449292812944m_-5539523642332939540gmail-m_-3694079393914391194gmail-m_6191157176584530127gmail-text_exposed_show"nbsp;was on the ground). They murdered him./spannbsp;Considering the standing practice of the Medical Examiner of maligning victims of police brutality, the Family and Coalition feel obliged to set the factual record straight and show how the autopsy report supports our claim that Luis was unlawfully and unnecessarily murdered by SFPD officers. In summary and by all eyewitness accounts, the victim never posed any threat to the officers who killed him. Police officers involved acted unlawfully by killing Luis within less than 30 seconds of their arrival. They broke protocols by leaving no time for any reasonable reaction other than panic on behalf of the victim. Officers inflicted several wounds with a bean bag weapon and shot seven bullets, which inflicted six bullet wounds. Only one of those bullets proved fatal; the downward trajectory execution shot to Luisrsquo;s head. Luis Demetrio Goacute;ngora Pat did not have to die.nbsp;
p ldquo;The small amount of drugs detected in his body does not change the fact that he was shot by officers who immediately escalated the violence against Luis and shot him six times within seconds after arriving on the scene.rdquo; said Laura Guzmaacute;n a member of the Justice Honor for Luiacute;s Goacute;ngora Pat Coalition and expert on homelessness health and policy issues in response to the report. The Medical Examinerrsquo;s report also leaves up to public speculation the meaning of trace amounts of drugs found in Luisrsquo;s body. According to an official NHTSA reporta data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=enq=https://justice4luis.org/2016/10/01/response-to-the-report-of-the-office-of-the-medical-examiner/%23_ftn1source=gmailust=1476651029856000usg=AFQjCNEFI7QkNCs3Wi_Qw1l0qswMc5Atsw" href="https://justice4luis.org/2016/10/01/response-to-the-report-of-the-office-of-the-medical-examiner/#_ftn1" name="m_-6262327262886080178_m_-6282921914050080973_m_5467033011463433083_m_-6834345449292812944_m_-5539523642332939540_m_-3694079393914391194_m_6191157176584530127__ftnref1" target="_blank"[1]/a, the amount of drugs in Luisrsquo;s system can only be considered recreational.nbsp;/p
p Luisrsquo;s other cousin, Carlos Poot Pat, stated ldquo;The police is destroying families, when they should be helping to save lives. This is a great injustice. Luis was part of a tight family, despite the border separating him from his wife and children.rdquo; Joseacute; mdash;Luisrsquo;s brothermdash;, added, ldquo;He was my companion and they have taken him away from me. My brother needed shelter, food, and medical care, instead of receiving assistance from the City, he was executed by the police.rdquo;nbsp;/p
p ldquo;This autopsy report is an insult to the family, as it supports the police cover-up of a murder of an innocent indigenous Mayan father, son, brother, uncle and husband who was houseless and therefore unable to protect himself from the ongoing race and class terror perpetrated on poor people of color by police and supported by the system.rdquo; saidnbsp;Tiny Gray-Garciacute;a, a member of the Justice Honor for Luiacute;s Goacute;ngora Pat Coalition and author of the book Criminal of Povery Growing Up Homeless in America ,/p
p Adriana Camarena, another Coalition member pointed out that ldquo;The 2016 Report of The Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement found that reports by the Office of the Medical Examiner of San Francisco lsquo;did not represent truly independent conclusions.a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=enq=https://justice4luis.org/2016/10/01/response-to-the-report-of-the-office-of-the-medical-examiner/%23_ftn2source=gmailust=1476651029856000usg=AFQjCNFYtYlDvifnhckFsGM8Xf2CCIYtHg" href="https://justice4luis.org/2016/10/01/response-to-the-report-of-the-office-of-the-medical-examiner/#_ftn2" name="m_-6262327262886080178_m_-6282921914050080973_m_5467033011463433083_m_-6834345449292812944_m_-5539523642332939540_m_-3694079393914391194_m_6191157176584530127__ftnref2" target="_blank"[2]/arsquo; Again, we see the Medical Examiner framing hard facts within a biased narrative of events supplied by SFPD. This office needs to be investigated for tampering with evidence and reformed alongside SFPD.rdquo;/p/span/div
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pspanCoalition member Flora Campoy added, We expect D.A. Gascoacute;n to criminally charge the officers who killed Luis. The evidence is clear that this was a vile murder of an innocent man./span/p
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