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DESCRIPTION:Who:   Coalition For a Safe Berkeley, Berkeley Copwatch,\n              
 Amnesty International UCB Chapter\nWhat:               Press 
 Conference\nWhere:  2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley\nWhen:   
 Thursday 10:00am February 28 2013\n\nAs details of the tragic death of 41 
 year old Berkeley resident Xavier Christopher Moore in police custody begin 
 to emerge, residents are asking why this person died and why police are 
 slow to release information in this case.\nAccording to Berkeley Police, 
 officers were dispatched for a mental health evaluation at about 11:50 pm 
 on February 12, 2013, although neighbors on the same floor heard no 
 disturbance until the police arrived.  \nAfter officers appeared at Moore's 
 residence the situation escalated, and shortly thereafter Moore died in 
 police custody.  Neighbors observed officers carrying Moore on a gurney, 
 unconscious and in restraints, out of the building.  In a city that is 
 known internationally for disability awareness, social consciousness and 
 protection of  civil liberties, it is unacceptable that a mental health 
 evaluation should end in death.\nWe are calling on advocates and 
 individuals in the mental health community, civil and human rights, 
 anti-racism and LGBTQ rights communities to demand answers from the City of 
 Berkeley as to what happened that night. If misconduct has occurred, 
 officers must be disciplined. If it was a failure of policy and 
 administration, the public must be allowed to analyze the case and to 
 assist in addressing this breakdown in city services. In any case, we 
 demand that the Berkeley Police Department comply with Public Records Act 
 requests and that they make information about that night’s events 
 available to the public as quickly as possible.\n\n \nCONTACT:              
                                             \nAndrea Prichett (Berkeley 
 Copwatch)\nPhone: (510) 229-0527  email: prichett@locrian.com               
    \nGeorge Lippman (Coalition For a Safe Berkeley)\nPhone: (510) 517-8379  
 email: george@igc.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/26/18732830.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley Coalition Demands Access to Information about Death in Police Custody
LOCATION: 2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/26/18732830.php
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