Works In Progress


topic : Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan

Protesting the Murder of Jose-Ramirez-Jimenez

December 2008

Photo: Jose-Ramirez-Jimenez

by James Pellegrino

On November 19 a popular assembly organized at the corner of Water Street and Fourth Avenue in downtown Olympia. The group held signs reading No Police Brutality and marched towards the Olympia Police Department headquarters. Gathering in support of the family of José Ramírez-Jiménez, who was shot and killed by the OPD on the night of November 15, the group paraded in a heavy rain.

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