Today, April 7th, marks six years since Luis Góngora Pat was killed by Ofc. Michael Mellone and Sgt. Nate Steger of the San Francisco Police Department. Six years later, his brother José Góngora Pat still seeks justice. “I want D.A. Chesa Boudin to charge the murderers of my brother Luis,” says José. “I am asking…
On the 5th Year Commemoration of Luis Góngora Pat, his brother José and his cousin Luis Poot ask community members to please call D.A. Chesa Boudin and demand an answer to his promise for justice: Will you charge the killers of Luis D. Góngora Pat?
Justice 4 Luis collaborated with a coalition of community-based organizations to develop a Community Plan to develop a compassion alternative response to policing homelessness. (C.A.R.T. for short) Our plan considered the results of a survey that collected input from impacted unhoused neighbors, and similar and successful projects like CAHOOTS in Oregon. Our plan proposes a…
The San Francisco Historical Society has named former San Francisco Chief of Police Greg Suhr to its advisory board, omitting in his bio his contentious history as Chief of Police (2011-2016). By naming Suhr an advisor and providing an uncritical biography, the SFHS provides a perfect example of how historical records are created for and by those in power, while burying their fraught involvement in class conflict and racial genocide and oppression.
In honor of the Indigenous, Black, People of Color harmed and murdered by those in power on stolen Ohlone land, Justice for Luis provides the missing chapters of Greg Suhr’s tenure as Chief of the SFPD that the SFHS deliberately omitted.
Officer Michael Mellone was the principal instigator in the killing of Luis Góngora Pat that took place on April 7, 2016. Within 28 seconds, he exited his patrol car and began shooting Luis who was simply sitting on the ground. Mellone shot 4 rifle bean bag rounds to Luis’s back as he crouched away and…
On Friday, September 4th, 2020 at 5 p.m. five young activists from the City of Antioch—Shagoofa Khan, Maria Brown, Michelle Parmenter, McKenna Peterson, and Lacey Brown—and Michael James, a former resident of the Mission District of San Francisco, now an East Bay resident, began a hunger strike to demand that local authorities meet their demands…
On Monday August 24, 2020, the Budget Committee of San Francisco held a public comment session on the budget which would be submitted for approval on Wednesday August 26. Cuts to the SFPD budget only amount to about a 4% decrease from the prior year’s 2019-2020 police budget, and a measly improvement to the 2.6% cut the Mayor London Breed had proposed. This is a far cry from the public demand to end the racist violent institution of policing that is the San Francisco Police Department. These are the videos submitted to public comment by Luis’s family and Justice4Luis.
The family of Luis Góngora Pat with Justice4Luis joins the call to #DefundThePolice, significantly. Mayor London Breed’s response to this public demand falls disappointingly short by maintaining a bloated police budget, which represents an insignificant -2.6% decrease from last year’s 2019-2020 budget. We oppose any cosmetic defunding of the police that will only result in the perpetuation of police violence and criminalization of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, transgendered, and homeless peoples in this City. We demand significant law enforcement funds be redirected to invest in the well being of BIPOC communities and alternatives to policing.
La familia de Luis Góngora Pat con Justice4Luis.org se suma al llamado para #RecortarALaPolicía, de manera significativa. La respuesta de la alcalde London Breed a esta demanda pública se queda decepcionantemente corta al mantener un presupuesto policial inflado, que representa una disminución insignificante del -2,6% con respecto al presupuesto del año pasado para 2019-2020. Nos oponemos a cualquier recorte presupuestal cosmético a la policía que solo resultará en la perpetuación de la violencia policial y la criminalización de las personas negras, indígenas, otras personas de color, transgénero y sin hogar en esta ciudad. Exigimos que se redirijan fondos significativos de las fuerzas del orden para invertir en el bienestar de las comunidades más discriminadas de esta ciudad y en alternativas a la vigilancia policial.
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Inolvidable: Un mensaje de recuerdo y gratitud de Rosana Góngora Pat de parte suya y su familia en Teabo, Yucatán. Unforgettable: A message of remembrance and gratitude from Rosana Góngora Pat, on behalf of herself and her family in Teabo, Yucatán. Un 7 de abril como hoy hace 3 años nos arrebataron a la persona…
Hace tres años, hoy, 7 de abril, Luis Góngora Pat fue brutal e insensatamente asesinado por agentes de la policía de San Francisco, el Sargento Nate Steger y oficial Michael Mellone. La presente contiene una declaración de José Góngora Pat y Luis Poot Pat, respectivamente el hermano y el primo de Luis Góngora Pat, en…
In December 2017, with support from the International Human Rights Clinic of Santa Clara Law, the ACLU and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Luis Poot Pat (representing the family of Luis Góngora Pat) and Adriana Camarena of Justice4Luis provided testimony to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights about Luis’s unjustified execution by SFPD and about…
CABILLO’s LONG AND SORDID HISTORY OF ABUSES AND IMPUNITY On June 9, 2018 Joshua Cabillo unlawfully shot Oliver Barcenas in the back. Miraculously, Barcenas survived despite the gravity of his injuries. Ofc. Cabillo has a long and sordid history of committing abuses while on the job, and getting away with it. In 2017, a grassroots…
On May 29, 2018, the families of Mario Woods and Luis Góngora Pat held a joint press conference to protest D.A. Gascón’s decision to not press charges against the officers who killed their loved ones. For today, Luis’s widow Doña Fidelia del Carmen May Can (Doña Carmen), who lives in Teabo, Yucatán prepared with her…
Justice for Luis Góngora Pat 