Law enforcement organization files a formal request for the Department of Justice to conduct a civil rights investigation into the Oceanside, Long Island bias assault of Aloysius Staton and Oswaldo Rivero
For Immediate Release
Press Briefing: Members of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care and the National Latino Officers Association along with the family and supporters of bias attack victims Aloysius Staton and Oswaldo Rivero will file a formal complaint with the United States Department of Justice-Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section in response to the prosecutorial apathy of the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. Since the June 1, 2007 bias assault of both Mr. Staton and Mr. Olivero, both the Nassau County Police Department and the Nassau County District Attorney’s office has ignored video evidence and refused to criminally charge ALL of the white perpetrators of the violent hate crime. 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care co-founder Noel Leader states, “There appears to be a complicit conspiracy between the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office and the Nassau County Police Department to deny both Mr. Staton and Mr. Rivero full and complete justice. The Department of Justice must ensure that local municipalities and agencies respect and defend federally protected constitutional rights. The evidence required to fully exonerate Mr. Staton and to arrest and charge the white gang is the videotape AND the statements of independent witnesses, both of which the Nassau County District Attorney has ignored.”
Date: TUESDAY, October 2, 2007
Time: 12 noon
Location: 147 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Presiding: 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care
National Latino Officers Association
Family and Supporters of Aloysius Staton and Oswaldo Rivero
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