Brent Probinsky, lawyer for brother of Nicolas Morales: “What we saw… by the Collier County Sheriff’s Office is poor training, a lack of concern for human life, incompetence, brutality, and indifference.”

CIW’s Gerardo Reyes Chavez:“Let us take these steps today and into the future and build together the Immokalee community and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office into a more modern, more humane model of policing.”

Lee County NAACP Second Vice President James Buchanon: “That’s why we are here: to make sure everybody feels comfortable in Southwest Florida knowing that somebody here that is going to fight for their civil rights.”

This Sunday at 4pm in the Immokalee Zocalo, Nicolas’s family will join CIW, the NAACP, faith leaders and allies from across Southwest Florida in calling for justice during a vigil honoring Nicolas’s life!  RSVP HERE
This past Sunday, just over a week after the release of the video of the brutal killing of Nicolas Morales at the hands of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office – and the announcement that the State Attorney’s Office had declared the fatal shooting to be “legally justifiable” – the Southwest Florida community came together to send an unmistakable message: This injustice will not stand.

In a statement on behalf of the Immokalee Community, the CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo and Gerardo Reyes Chavez called not only for justice for Nicolas and his family, but real and lasting change for the Immokalee community:

Today, we are calling for three steps to be taken without delay:
  1. Launch a federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into Nicolas’s shooting by Corporal Pierre Jean and mauling by a police K-9. Accountability is the necessary first step toward justice for Nicolas and his family, and healing for the Immokalee community.
  2. Form and implement Crisis Response Teams, pairing police and mental health professionals, to respond to calls where mental health is a potential issue.
  3. Establish transparency and genuine community participation by establishing an Immokalee-specific Citizens’ Review Panel with meaningful powers. 

The CIW was not alone in calling for change. Farmworkers in Immokalee were joined at Sunday’s press conference by the President and Second Vice President of the Lee County NAACP, Rev. Tony Fisher of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Naples, and Brent Probinsky, legal counsel for Nicolas’s brother, in speaking out against both the brutality on display in the dash camera video and the shocking exoneration of the deputy by the State Attorney.
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