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Over the course of the nearly four-hour townhall meeting held by the San Francisco Police Department on March 12, the crowd gathered at Cesar Chavez Elementary School repeatedly expressed its outrage and disgust at the footage of 10 officers shooting at 19-year-old Jesus Adolfo Delgado-Duarte 99 times as he lay inside the of trunk of a car.<\/p>\n
Police Chief William Scott, Mission Station Captain Gaetano Caltagirone and Captain Valeria Matthews of the SFPD Major Crimes Unit addressed the crowd, discussing in detail the fatal incident, which occurred March 6 at Capp and 21st streets. The officers presented their facts as they showed the footage from that evening. The shooting took place after two officers were flagged down by two victims of a robbery a little after 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
In a video presented by SFPD, Delgado-Duarte could be seen running on foot and jumping into the trunk of a black Honda Civic. <\/span><\/p>\n According to Capt. Matthews, law enforcement pulled in behind the Honda Civic and activated their emergency lights and conducted a traffic stop. Officers ordered the driver, 19-year-old Victor Navarro-Flores out of the car and then noticed Delgado-Duarte in the open trunk of the vehicle and was ordered to show his hands. The passenger and second suspect in the robbery is Cristina Juarez, a 17-year-old female who remained in the vehicle during the altercation. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Delgado-Duarte refused to comply as officers spoke to him in English and Spanish, at which point one officer discharged a bean bag shotgun. Then the 19-year-old allegedly pointed a gun and fired from inside the vehicle toward the officers. The 10 officers fired back, with 25 rounds striking Delgado-Duerte. A 9mm handgun was later recovered by SFPD in the trunk of the black Honda Civic.<\/span><\/p>\n Friends and family of Delgado-Duarte say that he hid from police because he was afraid of being deported to Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOn behalf of my family I would like to ask you to stop saying you\u2019re sorry because after this, nobody\u2019s going to believe that you\u2019re sorry,\u201d Delgado-Duarte\u2019s older brother, Victor Torres, told the SFPD after they offered their condolences to the grieving family in their initial statement. \u201cYou are nothing but murderers, you killed him. If he did something wrong, okay, judge him for it, but he did not deserve this. He was a scared 19-year-old. You guys took him from my mom and you don\u2019t know how bad she\u2019s suffering, so please don\u2019t tell me that you\u2019re sorry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get harder than this\u2014especially meeting Adolfo\u2019s mom,\u201d said an emotional Hillary Ronen, the Supervisor for District 9, which includes the Mission District. \u201cI\u2019m a mom of a 5 year old. There\u2019s no way you could prepare yourself for looking a mother in her eyes and just saying \u2018I love you and I\u2019m so sorry.\u2019 I doesn\u2019t get harder than this. And the pain of this community is so deep and it\u2019s based on so many different factors; police violence being one of those factors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Delgado-Duarte, an undocumented teenager who grew up in the Mission District and attended John O\u2019Connell High School, was a founding member of the Boys & Girls Club program at Alabama and 21st streets. After graduating he began working at the local Metro PCS store in the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe was a funny kid,\u201d said Corado. \u201cHe\u2019s a jokester. He enjoyed being at the club. His mother and father would have to come get him at the end of the night and pull him out because he didn\u2019t want to leave. He was one of those kids that just wanted to stay and enjoy the opportunity he had to be at the center.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Family members didn\u2019t speak after the meeting, but a few friends shared their memories of Delgado-Duarte.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe was very kind, he was cool with everybody,\u201d said Marjory Rodriguez, who was a close friend. \u201dHe was nice with everybody. He was really kind and always had a smile on his face. He was very involved in his community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The 10 officers who fired at Delgado-Duarte have been placed on paid administrative leave. They are Loren Chiu, Stephen Cassinelli, Juan Gustilo, Corbyn Carroll, Nicholas Nagai, Joshua Tupper, Colby Smets, Sean O\u2019Rourke, John Ishida and Ari Smith-Russack.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere is no bigger reform than keeping people with guns accountable,\u201d said Frank Lara, a teacher and activist, who suggested during a news conference prior to the town hall meeting that the involved officers should be fired. \u201cIf they actually want a reform, they should send a message.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Delgado-Duarte is among a growing list of Black and Brown people who have been killed by San Francisco law enforcement in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [su_carousel source=”media: 37211,37212,37213,37214,37215,37216,37217,37218″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Over the course of the nearly four-hour townhall meeting held by the San Francisco Police Department on March 12, the crowd gathered at Cesar Chavez Elementary School repeatedly expressed its outrage and disgust at the footage of 10 officers shooting at 19-year-old Jesus Adolfo Delgado-Duarte 99 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":37214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16258,16252,16246,16238,16256,16250,16244,16240,16248,8871,16260,16254,3593,16242],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-37210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ari-smith-russack","tag-colby-smets","tag-corbyn-carroll","tag-jesus-adolfo-delgado-duarte","tag-john-ishida","tag-joshua-tupper","tag-juan-gustilo","tag-loren-chiu","tag-nicholas-nagai","tag-officer-involved-shooting-en","tag-police-chief-william-scott","tag-sean-orourke","tag-sfpd-en","tag-stephen-cassinelli","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n