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Oakland, CA \u2013 On April 25, around 20 community members attended a cookout and rally at Arroyo Viejo Park in East Oakland. The gathering was organized by the Oakland Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression to raise funds for the second independent autopsy of Jalani Lovett, who died in custody at Los Angeles Men\u2019s Central Jail in 2021.<\/p>\n
Community members bonded at Arroyo Viejo Park over food, music and an educational program about police violence and deputy gangs in Los Angeles. Jalani Lovett and his mother lived in East Oakland for years before Jalani moved to LA to start his music career.<\/p>\n
Lovett died under suspicious circumstances after being held in solitary confinement. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner labeled Lovett\u2019s death as a drug overdose, despite his body showing severe signs of physical trauma that were omitted from the autopsy report.<\/p>\n
Terry Lovett, Jalani\u2019s mother, who has been fighting for a proper investigation into her son\u2019s death for four years, stated, \u201cNobody should go to jail and lose their life. Jail is not a death sentence.\u201d Terry believes a second autopsy could help her get the case reopened after it was dismissed for lack of evidence of foul play.<\/p>\n
Xa\u2019miel Thompson, treasurer of the Oakland Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, emphasized the cases of brutality in the jail, saying, \u201cLA Men\u2019s Central Jail is known for numerous white supremacist Sheriff Deputy gangs who engage in ritualistic torture and murder of Black and brown inmates.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jules Damey from Oakland Jericho, an organization fighting to free political prisoners, said, \u201cThis same system kills our comrades on the inside. They face countless human rights violations from brutality from guards, indefinite solitary confinement holds, having medical treatment withheld, and not being provided adequate nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to understand that the only way we are going to justice for our people in the jails and our streets is to build the struggle for community control of the police, a historic demand of the Black Liberation movement, of the Black Panther Party, and other oppressed people’s movements. We want LA Men’s Central Jail shut down until there is real accountability for the inhumane conditions, torture and deaths,\u201d said Romaine Charite of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.<\/p>\n
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