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Fed. Probe Urged On Police ShootingsSANTA FE. N.M. lt;AP) - The New Mexico Committee to the U S Civil Rights Commission recommended Saturday that special federal grand juries be impaneled to probe three separate tatal shoooting incidents by police in New Mexico.The action by the committee came immediately after it concluded hearing three days of testimony into alleged civil rights violations in New Mexico Sterling Black of Albuquerque. chairman of the New mexico Committee, said the group dedided to urge the investigation because there “seemed to be so many unanswered questions.”He said it is unusual to make such a request before formal written records of a hearing have been compiled, but “We felt there should be a full-scale investigation ... if the grand jury indicts, okay ... if it doesn’t, okay.”Black said the committee* would send a letter to the Civil Rights Commission aking it to lake the cases to the justice do-parmtentThe investigations are being asked into the death of RoyGallegos, 19, Santa Fe, who was shot by a Santa Fe policeman last year in connection with a robbery; the two Black Berets. Antonio Cordova andd Rito Canales, shot in Albuquerque earlier this year in a police stakeout; and the shooting of James Douglas Bradford, a black, by an Albuquerque police officerGallegos, arrested in connection with the robbery of a pharmacy, fled police and was shot. A county grand jury ruled it justifiable homicideIn testimony before the committee, The mother of Gallegos, a priest, and two members of a Chicano group, La Gente, called the incident and the lack of laier charges a “gross miscarriage of justice.”Cordova ad Canales, both 29, were killed in a police stakeout at a construction company’s dynamite storage area south of Albuquerque.
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Los Alamos Monitor
Los Alamos, New Mexico, US
Sun, Jun 11, 1972
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