#Virgilio Aguilar Méndez

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On May 19 Sgt. Michael Kunovich deemed him suspicious while outside the Super 8 motel parking lot. Aguilar Mendez was sitting down eating but started to walk away when the officer approached in his patrol vehicle. Kunovich began to question him, but Aguilar Mendez couldn't understand him or communicate well and repeated that he was sorry. That's when Kunovich decided to search him, and Aguilar Mendez resisted. Two other deputies arrived to assist in taking the 5-foot-4, 115-pound teen to the ground as Kunovich repeatedly stunned him with his taser, all seen on body-worn camera video. Aguilar Mendez can be heard screaming for his family and is seen trying to gain control of the taser as the officers note in the video. Toward the end of the 6-minute scuffle, the deputies saw that their handcuffed suspect had a small folding knife and disarmed him. Kunovich collapsed a short time later in medical distress and died at the hospital, the Sheriff's Office said. Aguilar Mendez, who came here from Guatemala, was staying with other farmworkers at the hotel. He is being detained without bail, which is the subject of another hearing as yet to be decided. (source)

I'm going to need you all to start spreading awareness about this case and sign the petition. I'm a 5'4 woman and I weigh more than him. He's only 18, indigenous and doesn't understand English nor Spanish really. I can't imagine how confused and scared he was. Tased 6 times and apologizing repeatedly and calling out for his family... he is not responsible for the police officer's death. The fact he's been held for 8 months without bail is disgusting.

Virgilio looks so small, sad and defeated in all of the images I've seen of him.

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Tumblr refused to reblog this despitthe fact that yesterday I still could

Now I post it out of spite

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Article: Teen Charged With Murder After Officer Had Heart Attack While Assaulting Him

An officer (one of several) attack and tasered (multiple times) a young non-English speaking Venezuelan farm worker.

The officer unnecessarily worked himself into a frenzy (over no serious threat) and then had a heart attack due to longstanding arteriosclerosis.

Yet they want to blame the kid they bullied, beat, tasered, and victimized out of ignorance and for the power rush of violence and bullying.

Jesus.

There is no justice in America sometimes, especially if you're poor and brown.

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On May 19, 2023, Virgilio Aguilar Méndez, an 18-year-old Indigenous-Maya farmworker, was eating and talking to his mother on the phone outside of his Super 8 motel room in St. Augustine, Florida, where he was staying with three other farmworkers. He was working to send money to his family in Guatemala. St. Johns County police Sergeant Michael Kunovich approached Aguilar Méndez and described him to the dispatcher as a “suspicious Hispanic male” according to an ABC News reporter who reviewed the body camera and audio of the incident.

As Kunovich began to question Aguilar Méndez, who speaks the Mayan language Mam, the young man couldn’t understand the questions and started apologizing. He expressed multiple times that he did not speak English and that he was residing in the motel.

Kunovich started searching the teenager for weapons, according to the Florida Times-Union. Startled, the confused 5-foot-4, 115-pound teen resisted. During the eight minute struggle, Kunovich called two other deputies to assist him. They pushed and pinned Aguilar Méndez to the ground, held him in a chokehold, and stunned him with his taser six times in two minutes.

Five minutes after they handcuffed the teenager and put him in a patrol car, Kunovich collapsed and was transported to a hospital where he died. Medical examiners found this to be cardiac arrest and ruled Kunovich’s death to be by natural causes. The ABC reporter, who obtained a copy of Kunovich’s autopsy report, wrote that it said, “These cardiac changes, while recent, predate the struggle with the subject. The circumstances do not fully meet the criteria for a homicide manner of death.”

Still, the St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the State Attorney for the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida charged Aguilar Méndez with aggravated murder, which is punishable by life in prison.

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An eighteen-year-old laborer who speaks the Mayan language Mam (and doesn't understand English or Spanish) was outside the motel where he's staying, when officers were dispatched on reports of a "suspicious Hispanic man." He can't respond to their questions or understand their instructions, so naturally they lunge at him and he struggles. Minutes after they've tased the man repeatedly, handcuffed him and put him in the squad car, one of the cops suffers a fatal heart attack. The autopsy concludes he had cardiac issues that well predate this arrest, but the young man is charged with murder and has been held without bail for over half a year now. Initial police statements mentioned that the officer had a heart attack "after the suspect pulled a knife on him;" the body cam footage only shows them finding a small pocket knife on him after he's handcuffed which he didn't attempt to use during the arrest.

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Corrompen proceso anticorrupción en Oaxaca

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La Comisión de Selección del Comité de Participación Ciudadana del Sistema Estatal Anticorrupción violó su propio acuerdo, y de manera ilegal, entrevistó a 16 aspirantes que no cumplieron con los requisitos.

En el acta de la sesión celebrada el 4 de enero, los integrantes de esta comisión determinaron que solo 17 ciudadanos cumplieron con los requisitos para avanzar a la fase de entrevistas; y la otra mitad, no.

“Los aspirantes que no alcanzaron el puntaje requerido comprendido dentro del 50 por ciento de los mejor evaluados, no pasan a la fase de entrevistas mismos que son los siguientes: Sergio Antonio Boñalos Scherenberg, Lizbeth Mariano Aguilar, Yaneli Jarquín Rodríguez; María Adaena López Cruz, Alfredo Jiménez Orozco, Minerva Patricia Ríos Padilla, José Luis Mastachi Pérez, Vicente Huerta Escudero, Pedro Corres Sillas, Lydia Victoria Sánchez Zárate, Rina Irene García Chogoya, Ruben Constantino Díaz Romero, Daniel Alaín Hernández Iriarte, Héctor Salinas Jiménez, Fracisco Cruz Herrera, Alejandro Figueroa Sánchez”, expone.

Sin embargo, el 7 de enero, a través de sus redes sociales, la comisión de selección anunció que estos 16 ciudadanos habían avanzado, y los citó en la sede del Congreso del Estado, el 11 de enero, a la entrevista personal.

El jueves pasado se celebraron estas entrevistas a este grupo que no cumplió con los requisitos establecidos en la convocatoria.

En el punto seis de esta acta, los responsables de la selección de los aspirantes al Comité de Participación Ciudadana explicaron que asignaron una calificación numérica a cada uno de los candidatos inscritos, tras la “valoración curricular”, para determinar a los mejores perfiles.

Del grupo de 33 personas inscritas, María Isabel Chagoya Méndez obtuvo el puntaje más alto, le asignaron 19; un aspirante obtuvo 18 puntos; tres, 16; una, 14; uno, 13; tres 12; seis, 11; y uno 10 puntos.

Estos 17 candidatos son los que pasaron a la fase de entrevista; según lo establecido en el acta firmada por los nueve integrantes de la comisión de selección.

Esta comisión de selección decidió que solo el 50 por ciento con el puntaje más alto pasaría a la fase de entrevistas; la cual se realizó el miércoles 10 de enero, en la sede del Congreso del Estado.

Documentación incompleta

Las irregularidades en este proceso de selección comenzaron desde la primera fase, cuando fue aceptado el registro de nueve aspirantes que no entregaron la documentación requerida en la convocatoria.

En el acta del 4 de enero, la comisión de selección señaló que, aún cuando aceptaron su inscripción a este proceso: algunos aspirantes no demostraron tener el grado de licenciatura, no presentaron carta de postulación, tampoco las declaraciones fiscal, de intereses y patrimonial.

Una de las aspirantes no presentó currículum vitae.

De acuerdo con la convocatoria, la falta de cualquiera de los documentos requeridos era motivo para no aceptar la inscripción.

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CNACJ evaluará desempeño de siete magistrados de Apelaciones

Escrito por Marlon Ocampo El CNACJ de la CSJ, convocó a los 7 magistrados de apelaciones que se les vence el período el 9 de septiembre del corriente año, al proceso de evaluación al desempeño. El Consejo Nacional de Administración y Carrera Judicial (CNACJ), de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, convocó para un proceso de evaluación al desempeño, a siete magistrados de Tribunales de Apelaciones cuyos períodos se vencerán el próximo nueve de septiembre de 2017.

La evaluación iniciará con un programa de entrevistas personales a cada magistrado evaluado, las que se realizarán del 31 de agosto al primero de septiembre.

El Consejo Nacional de Administración y Carrera Judicial (CNACJ), está integrado por los magistrados Alba Luz Ramos Vanegas (presidenta), Marvin Aguilar García, Juana Méndez Pérez y Virgilio Guardián Castellón. LEER MAS http://www.poderjudicial.gob.ni/prensa/notas_prensa_detalle.asp?id_noticia=8198