Enough 14Its time to revolt!#Tacoma, #WA: La Resistencia Statement on Shooting Death of Northwest Detention Center Protester

17.7.19

Enough 14Its time to revolt!#Tacoma, #WA: La Resistencia Statement on Shooting Death of Northwest Detention Center Protester: Originally published by La Resistencia Facebook page.

Tacoma, WA– Early this morning, a person who appears to have been engaged in protest against the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma was shot and killed by members of the Tacoma Police Department. Today marks yet another death linked to the detention center, and another death at the hands of the police. Based on available information, including the police scanner recording, Willem Van Spronsen, the protestor killed, appears to have been targeting not the detention center itself, as has been widely reported in the media, but the parking lot across the street from the detention center which houses the NWDC’s transportation infrastructure. This infrastructure includes a fleet of buses that transports immigrants to be caged at the detention center, and that transports immigrants from the detention center to the Yakima Airport, from which they are deported.