Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 19, 2007

Minutemen pepper spray migrant activist at sanctuary church

Minutemen Provoke, Pepper Spray, in Simi Valley
by Marcus
Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2007 at 11:45 AM

SIMI VALLEY, California, Sunday, September 16, 2007: At 10 a.m., 40 pro-immigrant supporters and about 80 Minutemen and their supporters gathered on each side of the driveway leading to the parking lot of the United Church of Christ on Royal Avenue where Liliana took refuge from the Immigration Services. During the protest, a small group of three Minutemen came on the pro-immigrant side apparently to provoke. Pro-immigrant supporters complained to the Simi Valley PD, but to no avail. Despite the angry protests of immigrant supporters, the police didn’t force the Minutemen to move, Half an hour later at 11: 12 a.m. a Minuteman pepper sprayed Naui Hutizilopochtli, an immigrant activist, so badly that he had to be taken to the hospital by paramedics. The protests went on until 1 p.m. without further incidents.
More photos:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/09/207304.php

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