Police terror in a sanctuary city
NOVANEWS
By Erika Hidalgo
Activist Adriana Camarena and the family of Luis Gongora speak outside Mission Police Station. Photo credit: Erika Hidalgo
For Mayan immigrants, Luis Gongora Pat and Amilcar Perez-Lopez, San Francisco’s status as a “sanctuary city” did nothing to protect them from murder at the hands of the San Francisco Police Department.
The morning of Friday, April 7, a year to the day of Luis Gongora’s death, family, neighbors, and activists gathered at the site of his murder, in the heart of the gentrified Mission District. Opening with a traditional Indigenous Mexican ceremony for the slain man, people took to the streets to march, stopping at key sites like the Mission Police Station, the apartment Luis lived in ...