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Native Lives Matter Justice For Lakota Gall Brightman
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Date:
Friday, July 29, 2016
Time:
8:00 AM
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10:00 AM
Event Type:
Press Conference
Organizer/Author:
United Native Americans
Location Details:
Superior Court of California County of Contra County
A.F. Bray Courthouse
1020 Ward Street
Martinez, CA 94553
A.F. Bray Courthouse
1020 Ward Street
Martinez, CA 94553
On May 25th, 2016. The Jury Found Mark Anthony Nelson #Guilty of PC 187- Murder First Degree & Of Knife Enhancement for the Murder of Lakota Gall Brightman on July 3rd, 2015.
We are Asking For Solidarity in Helping Our Win Justice for Our Beloved Family Member, Lakota Gall Brightman's Murderer (Mark Anthony Nelson: Case Number 5-151356-3) Be Sentenced to Live in Prison.
Please Take a Moment of Your Time to Write a Letter to the Honorable Judge Laurel S. Brady in Department 31 ASAP and to Show up to the Sentencing on Friday July 29th, 2016 at 8:30AM.
#PressConfence Will Be Held After Sentencing infront of Superior Court of California County of Contra County
A.F. Bray Courthouse
1020 Ward Street
Martinez, CA 94553
#PreSentenceImpactStatement
#Template
Superior Court of California County of Contra County
A.F. Bray Courthouse/Court Annex
1020 Ward Street
Martinez, CA 94553
Case Number 5-151356-3
My name is , , , , ,
I am the (Family Member/Friend of Victim).
On July 3rd, 2015, Lakota Gall Brightman, was murdered by the defendant. The facts of the case were proven beyond a reasonable doubt and your verdict was rendered guilty!
Words cannot express the pain and anguish our family and friends have endured since Lakota Gall Brightman's murder. The defendant decision to take the life of a human being with no regard for the effects it has had on Lakota Gall Brightman Friends and Family is unimaginable.
The loss of Lakota Gall Brightman is beyond words. Lakota Gall Brightman was born on December 25th 1969 in Rapid City, South Dakota to parents Lehman and Trudy Brightman. He was the second of three children. Lakota attended Delmar Elementary School, Portola Junior High School, and graduated from El Cerrito High School in 1988. His earlier years were spent advocating for Native American Rights along with his family and the Organization founded by his father Lehman and carried on by his brother Quanah, United Native Americans. United Native Americans was and are still very active in Native american rights and the promotion of progress and general welfare of Native Americans. Specialist Lakota Gall Brightman served 6 years in the California Army National Guard, 235th Engineer Company (Sapper) as an Army Field Medic from August 11, 2007 to his date of separation on August 10th, 2013. Lakota was ordered into active service in 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan.
He is remembered as a gentle and kind hearted human being who wanted to help others and was a beloved son, brother, nephew, cousin, uncle, father, friend and hero. He is preceded in death by his mother Trudy Brightman and his older brother Lehman Brightman III. Lakota is survived by his Daughters, Phoebe (23) and Star (13) Brightman his brother Quanah Parker Brightman, father Chief Lehman L. Brightman, aunts Nancy and Lorelie Oldlodge and uncles, Anthony David Clairmont and Donald Oldlodge. Taken too soon, Lakota is warmly remembered and greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
There will be no more birthday parties, backyard gatherings, holiday celebrations or other family activities to share. The laughter, hugs, guidance/advice, sense of security and those opportunities to say, “I love you” are forever gone. Our family is forever “broken”.
To say the least, the financial affect on the family has also been devastating.
Compassion is a word commonly used for and by defendants. However, I ask, how much compassion the defendant considered when the decision was made to murder Lakota Gall Brightman?
It is the request of the family that the maximum penalty for the crime for which the defendant was convicted be imposed. On behalf of the family of Lakota Gall Brightman, I wish to express my sincerest gratitude for allowing this opportunity of expression.
Quanah Parker Brightman
Executive Director of
United Native Americans
qbrightman75 [at] hotmail.com
(510) 672-7187
http://unitednativeamericans.weebly.com/
We are Asking For Solidarity in Helping Our Win Justice for Our Beloved Family Member, Lakota Gall Brightman's Murderer (Mark Anthony Nelson: Case Number 5-151356-3) Be Sentenced to Live in Prison.
Please Take a Moment of Your Time to Write a Letter to the Honorable Judge Laurel S. Brady in Department 31 ASAP and to Show up to the Sentencing on Friday July 29th, 2016 at 8:30AM.
#PressConfence Will Be Held After Sentencing infront of Superior Court of California County of Contra County
A.F. Bray Courthouse
1020 Ward Street
Martinez, CA 94553
#PreSentenceImpactStatement
#Template
Superior Court of California County of Contra County
A.F. Bray Courthouse/Court Annex
1020 Ward Street
Martinez, CA 94553
Case Number 5-151356-3
My name is , , , , ,
I am the (Family Member/Friend of Victim).
On July 3rd, 2015, Lakota Gall Brightman, was murdered by the defendant. The facts of the case were proven beyond a reasonable doubt and your verdict was rendered guilty!
Words cannot express the pain and anguish our family and friends have endured since Lakota Gall Brightman's murder. The defendant decision to take the life of a human being with no regard for the effects it has had on Lakota Gall Brightman Friends and Family is unimaginable.
The loss of Lakota Gall Brightman is beyond words. Lakota Gall Brightman was born on December 25th 1969 in Rapid City, South Dakota to parents Lehman and Trudy Brightman. He was the second of three children. Lakota attended Delmar Elementary School, Portola Junior High School, and graduated from El Cerrito High School in 1988. His earlier years were spent advocating for Native American Rights along with his family and the Organization founded by his father Lehman and carried on by his brother Quanah, United Native Americans. United Native Americans was and are still very active in Native american rights and the promotion of progress and general welfare of Native Americans. Specialist Lakota Gall Brightman served 6 years in the California Army National Guard, 235th Engineer Company (Sapper) as an Army Field Medic from August 11, 2007 to his date of separation on August 10th, 2013. Lakota was ordered into active service in 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan.
He is remembered as a gentle and kind hearted human being who wanted to help others and was a beloved son, brother, nephew, cousin, uncle, father, friend and hero. He is preceded in death by his mother Trudy Brightman and his older brother Lehman Brightman III. Lakota is survived by his Daughters, Phoebe (23) and Star (13) Brightman his brother Quanah Parker Brightman, father Chief Lehman L. Brightman, aunts Nancy and Lorelie Oldlodge and uncles, Anthony David Clairmont and Donald Oldlodge. Taken too soon, Lakota is warmly remembered and greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
There will be no more birthday parties, backyard gatherings, holiday celebrations or other family activities to share. The laughter, hugs, guidance/advice, sense of security and those opportunities to say, “I love you” are forever gone. Our family is forever “broken”.
To say the least, the financial affect on the family has also been devastating.
Compassion is a word commonly used for and by defendants. However, I ask, how much compassion the defendant considered when the decision was made to murder Lakota Gall Brightman?
It is the request of the family that the maximum penalty for the crime for which the defendant was convicted be imposed. On behalf of the family of Lakota Gall Brightman, I wish to express my sincerest gratitude for allowing this opportunity of expression.
Quanah Parker Brightman
Executive Director of
United Native Americans
qbrightman75 [at] hotmail.com
(510) 672-7187
http://unitednativeamericans.weebly.com/
For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1687551678...
Added to the calendar on Sat, Jul 2, 2016 4:13PM
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So, we the taxpayers, have already paid for a trial and imprisonment of someone who killed someone else and you are asking that we pay for life imprisonment of someone you do not like at your expense and the expense of all the rest of us. Prisons are torture, punishment nightmares with horrifying solitary confinement with sleep deprivation where the taxpayers pay for the existence of people whom society does not like. They do not SOLVE any problems whatsoever, they make all problems WORSE because they deprive all of the social services of funds to promote the police state. There is no rehabilitation in prisons. It is so bad that there is now scheduled to be a national prison strike on September 9, 2016, in memory of the Attica uprising in September 1971. For more Attica, easily within this writer's memory, see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/22/new-attica-documents-reveal-inmate-torture
The national prison strike is at https://iwoc.noblogs.org/post/2016/05/25/iww-endorses-the-nationally-coordinated-prisoner-work-stoppage-on-september-9th-2016/
The victim described above was 4 years old in 1973 when the draft was abolished. He volunteered for the national guard and apparently did not refuse to go to Afghanistan to kill Afghans to protect the Caspian Sea oil pipeline, the only reason US troops are in Afghanistan, when he was 38 years old, long past being forced to do any military activity. All military organizations teach its members to use a gun to kill people. Yet, we see no apology for volunteering for the military or being in Afghanistan.
As to prisons, they need to be replaced with rehabilitation programs so that:
1. All sentences are reduced to 5 years or less and the death penalty must be abolished.
2. All prisoners over age 50 must be freed immediately with full pensions, free medical care and free housing since there is no job training for anyone over age 50.
3. All prisoners remaining must be required to participate in education programs, including having an Email account and becoming as computer literate as possible, so that they leave the prison with at least a high school diploma, vocational skills, and go immediately to a decent paying job.
4. All blacklists such as the sex offender list must be abolished and all job questionnaires must eliminate the question as to whether a person was convicted of a felony so that former prisoners can work and be productive members of society.
5. All prisoners must receive full medical care for all physical and mental problems.
WE THE TAXPAYERS ARE BEING ROBBED BY THE POLICE STATE-PRISON TORTURE SYSTEM. ABOLISH PRISONS, THE POLICE STATE, THE DEATH PENALTY, AND THE MILITARY.
The national prison strike is at https://iwoc.noblogs.org/post/2016/05/25/iww-endorses-the-nationally-coordinated-prisoner-work-stoppage-on-september-9th-2016/
The victim described above was 4 years old in 1973 when the draft was abolished. He volunteered for the national guard and apparently did not refuse to go to Afghanistan to kill Afghans to protect the Caspian Sea oil pipeline, the only reason US troops are in Afghanistan, when he was 38 years old, long past being forced to do any military activity. All military organizations teach its members to use a gun to kill people. Yet, we see no apology for volunteering for the military or being in Afghanistan.
As to prisons, they need to be replaced with rehabilitation programs so that:
1. All sentences are reduced to 5 years or less and the death penalty must be abolished.
2. All prisoners over age 50 must be freed immediately with full pensions, free medical care and free housing since there is no job training for anyone over age 50.
3. All prisoners remaining must be required to participate in education programs, including having an Email account and becoming as computer literate as possible, so that they leave the prison with at least a high school diploma, vocational skills, and go immediately to a decent paying job.
4. All blacklists such as the sex offender list must be abolished and all job questionnaires must eliminate the question as to whether a person was convicted of a felony so that former prisoners can work and be productive members of society.
5. All prisoners must receive full medical care for all physical and mental problems.
WE THE TAXPAYERS ARE BEING ROBBED BY THE POLICE STATE-PRISON TORTURE SYSTEM. ABOLISH PRISONS, THE POLICE STATE, THE DEATH PENALTY, AND THE MILITARY.
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