Orlando is a city that cannot be divorced from its tourist attractions, among them Disney World and Universal Studios, where some of the victims were employed. Later, after she had left, his name was indeed found listed among the dead. “His boyfriend is in the hospital, but he doesn’t appear anywhere,” she said. Candelario-Padro, 27, had not appeared on any of the lists of dead or injured. One woman, Eileen Villega, said the name of a family friend who had been in the nightclub, Angel L. Each family was surrounded by a team of church volunteers in bright T-shirts, their hands linked to protect their charges from reporters’ questions. From the front door of the building, a procession of relatives and friends emerged after the briefing, heads bowed. The bereft uncle, like so many other relatives, turned to Facebook to pour out his rage.Īs he spoke, two people nearby hugged each other for a long time and sobbed. Finally, a hospital confirmed the awful news. The family found out that Juan had been hurt when someone saw him being carried out of the club and into an ambulance. Like other members of his Dominican family, he liked Latin music, which is why he went to Pulse on Saturday night. He was quiet and kind, his uncle Robert Guerrero, 51, recalled. Juan Ramon Guerrero was less than a month shy of his 23rd birthday and in his third year at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. And on Monday, when their names were read aloud in the auditorium of a red-brick senior center, the worst fears of their families came true as the roster of the victims of the Orlando attack became horribly real. The dead were mostly young, mostly Latino and mostly gay - though some were none of those and a fair number were straight men and women enjoying an evening of Latin music. Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36, nicknamed Shaki, had been married to his husband for about a year, worked at a Party City and a Sunglass Hut, and was entranced by interior design. Stanley Almodovar III, a 23-year-old pharmacy technician, had posted a Snapchat video of himself singing and laughing on his way to the Pulse nightclub on Saturday. Louis Omar Ocasio-Capo was 20, worked at a Starbucks in a Target store, and lived to dance. She later declined to comment to reporters, but the family reportedly plans to file a lawsuit over Moore’s encounter with the police.ORLANDO, Fla. Moore attended the event with her family and an attorney. Noting that certain specialized units and command staff members are overwhelmingly white in a department that’s majority African American, the report said that “the racism that exists in the department trickles down from the command staff to the rank and file.”ĭays later, Craig disbanded the CORE committee, while saying he would move forward with implementing some of its recommendations. It expressed “great concern” about “imbedded racial attitudes and behaviors by the some of the command staff.” In early 2017, under external pressure, Craig released a copy of an internal report from the department’s Committee on Racial Equality. “We know that studies have been conducted, and they have been dismissed. “Beyond these officers, his greatest charge is not to ignore the racial tension that exists in the police department,” she said. Gay-Dagnogo also called on Craig to address larger racial issues within the department. Gay-Dagnogo pointed out that Steele had served probation for domestic violence and unlawful discharge of a weapon in 2008.
She also called for mandatory mental health assessments and cultural sensitivity training for officers, as well as a thorough assessment of all Detroit police personnel. Gay-Dagnogo said lawmakers plan to set up a committee to monitor the 6 th Precinct, where Steele and Garrison work.
We will be watching.”Ĭraig has suspended the officers with pay, pending an investigation.
Gay-Dagnogo also called for a thorough internal affairs investigation into Steele and partner Michael Garrison, saying she’s confident Chief James Craig will “do the right thing.
“We must show the brother what black magic really looks like.” “Today is about a movement that says we are not going to accept this disrespect and discrimination anymore,” she said. Gay-Dagnogo called Moore “our daughter,” and says she wanted to show black women uniting behind her. One officer, Gary Steele, made a Snapchat video of her walking away, with derisive captions like “celebrating black history month” and “what black girl magic looks like.” The 23-year-old Moore walked home in the cold after Detroit police officers impounded her car for expired tags. State Representative Sherry Gay-Dagnogo organized the event that brought some of the city’s state legislators and other officials out to support Ariel Moore. Some of Detroit’s black women leaders are rallying behind the young woman who was taunted on video by two white police officers-and calling for some bigger changes at the Detroit Police Department.