Please spread the word! Hope to see you at the Press Conference! Let's stop
these cops! Help us spread the resolution that we passed at the South Central
Neighborhood Council meeting last night! Thanks to all of the community members
who came to the meeting last night to back us up! Venceremos!
Ron Gochez
Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer
Union del Barrio
Southern California Immigration Coalition
South Central Neighborhood Council
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F O R I MM E D I A T E R E L E A S E PRESS CONFERENCE: Neighborhood
Council and Southern California Immigration Coalition to denounce the Los
Angeles Police Department and Mayor Villaraigosa for stealing cars from
Immigrants; especially during Christmas
December 23, 2010
The Southern California Immigration Coalition and the South Central
Neighborhood Council will denounce the increasing wave of LAPD and Sherriff’s
“Sobriety” Checkpoints which continue to be strategically used to legally steal
thousands of cars from undocumented immigrants. Stealing cars from Immigrants
has become a multimillion dollar industry that is now being used to alleviate
the city’s budget deficit. In 2009, the state of California shamefully profited
$40 million from these checkpoints. This is being done at the expense of the
undocumented community and is particularly shameful during this holiday
season.
Under the pretext of looking for drunk drivers, the LAPD and Sherriff’s
Departments are specifically racially profiling Latinos by strategically
placing “Sobriety” checkpoints in predominantly Latino communities. These
include “Sobriety” checkpoints on Tuesday mornings in strictly residential
neighborhoods. These are obviously traps to catch unlicensed drivers. Both of
those departments acknowledge that the GREAT majority of the cars impounded are
NOT from drunk drivers but from unlicensed drivers; most of whom are
undocumented.
Because Mayor Villaraigosa has publicly stated his opposition to the racial
profiling that is taking place in Arizona, we call on him and the City Council
to end this same type of racial profiling and attacks on immigrants here in Los
Angeles. Elected representatives of the South Central Neighborhood Council will
present a resolution (attached) which they are spreading to other Neighborhood
Councils and eventually to the LA City Council that calls for the end to the
confiscation of vehicles at Sobriety Checkpoints for drivers who are simply
unlicensed.
The central objectives will be:
1) To call for an IMMEDIATE halt to the impounding of vehicles at
sobriety checkpoints for people who are NOT under the influence
2) To make a call for our communities to defend themselves from the
Police and Sherriff’s Departments by resisting the Checkpoints
3) To publicly present the resolution that was approved by the
South Central Neighborhood Council that calls for an end to the confiscation of
cars of unlicensed drivers and the campaign to bring this to the City Council.
Organizers will be available for interviews
Contacts: Ron Gochez (English/Spanish) [email protected]
Julia Wallace (English) [email protected]
What: Community organizations to denounce Villaraigosa, the
LAPD and the Sherriff Department for stealing cars from Immigrants, especially
during Christmas
Where: LA City Hall, 200 North Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90012
When: Thursday, December 23, 2010 Time: 4:30 P.M
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