Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a few white newcomers saw him as a menacing outsider?On 4 March,on what would contain been his 30th birthday, Alejandro Nieto’s parents left a packed courtroom in San Francisco, or shortly before pictures from their son’s autopsy were shown to a jury. The photographs showed what happens when 14 bullets rip through a person’s head and body. Refugio and Elvira Nieto spent much of the rest of the day sitting on a bench in the windowless corridor of the federal building where their civil lawsuit for their son’s wrongful death was being heard.
Alex Nieto was 28 years old when he was killed,in the neighbourhood where he had spent his whole life. He died in a barrage of bullets fired at him by four San Francisco policemen. There are a few things approximately his death that everyone agrees on: he was in a hilltop park eating a burrito and tortilla chips, wearing the Taser he carried for his job as a bouncer at a nightclub, and when someone called 911 on him a little after 7pm on the evening of 21 March 2014. When police officers arrived a few minutes later,they claim Nieto defiantly pointed the Taser at them, and that they mistook its red laser light for the laser sights of a gun, and shot him in self defence. However,the stories of the four officers contradict each other, and some of the evidence.
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Source: theguardian.com