Speak Out! Stop the Pedie Perez Coverup!

The Oscar Grant Committee and the family of Pedie Perez will hold a Press Conference and Speak Out to Stop the Pedie Perez Killing Cover-Up! We will then attend the regular meeting of the Richmond City Council and. speak during the Public Comment period.

After sixteen months of secrecy and hypocrisy, the family of Richard “Pedie” Perez III is still seeking truth and justice in the killing of their son by Richmond Police Officer Wallace Jensen in the early morning hours of September 14, 2014. The police falsely claimed that Pedie attacked Officer Jensen and tried to take his gun. The surveillance video and eyewitnesses tell a different story, and the facts are widely known among the media and the public. Yet Police Chief Chris Magnus, Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson, City Attorney Bruce Goodmiller, and Mayor Tom Butts are all conspiring to prevent an independent investigation by the Richmond Police Commission.

These public officials have discredited their offices, just as Officer Jensen discredited the Richmond Police Department. We deserve better from our police and elected officials. We reject the Cover-Up and call for Openness and Transparency with an Independent Investigation and an Independent Prosecutor!

“I just want flat out justice . . . If the facts are that the cop did what I think he did, well, we don’t need cops like that.” – Rick Perez, Pedie’s father