Finally, we hope this terrible incident will spur changes in the policies and practices of the sheriff’s office to ensure greater accountability and to help prevent similar tragedies in the future. The family of Morales Besanilla and the community - and all of us - need to know that Morales Besanilla’s death will be investigated fairly and fully. We ask the Collier County Sheriff’s Office for complete transparency and for the release of all the above requested items, which would begin to demonstrate the goodwill of the office. Equally troubling, the reports reveal serious discrepancies about the manner in which Morales Besanilla approached the deputies. Then five days later, a new report identified the sharp object as landscaping shears. In the first report, there was a single shovel a sharp object was added in the second report. The inconsistencies in the reports are also very concerning. 22, it is hard to imagine why deputies with firearms and accompanied by an attack dog, in the space of 13 seconds, would feel the need to shoot a single individual coming at them with a garden tool. Having read the three reports from the sheriff’s office, two from Sept. In particular, we join in the call for the release of the autopsy results, all dashboard camera footage, and all audio and text communications from and to the deputies. We echo the community’s call for complete transparency.
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The circumstances around the killing of Morales Besanilla, along with troubling inconsistencies in the three reports we’ve seen from the sheriff’s office, make even more critical the full disclosure of the details surrounding this incident. Regarding this tragic loss of life, we wish to express our concern about the lack of transparency on the part of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. Our denomination has a long-term and deep relationship with the farm workers of Immokalee, and we join them in mourning the loss of Morales Besanilla.
We grieve the death, at the hands of sheriff’s deputies, of Morales Besanilla, who we understand was the father of a 13-year-old son and a longtime Immokalee community member. On behalf of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), we send our deepest condolences to Nicolas Morales Besanilla’s son, his extended family, and all who knew and loved him. Statement from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Regarding the Death of Nicolas Morales Besanilla The sheriff’s office has said that it is conducting criminal and administrative investigations and that the criminal investigative file would be forwarded to the state attorney’s office for independent review. Diane Moffett, President and Executive Director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, and the Rev. Morales Besanilla approached the deputies,” according to the Church’s statement, which is signed by the Rev.
The PC(USA) is concerned about inconsistencies in reports from the office and “discrepancies about the manner in which Mr. One of the deputies shot Morales Besanilla and another released a dog on him after he allegedly ran toward the officers with a “raised weapon,” also described as a “sharp, shiny object,” which turned out to be a pair of landscaping shears, according to the office. 17, when three deputies responded to a call from a woman reporting that a man with a shovel was banging on her door and demanding to be let inside, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. “We have a man who’s 5-foot-1-inch tall, Nicolas.
“Is there justification for use of deadly force?” Probinsky asked. He said the victim was shot three times, within 13 seconds of law enforcement’s arrival. “In particular, we join in the call for the release of the autopsy results, all dashboard camera footage, and all audio and text communications from and to the deputies,” declares the PC(USA) statement released in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.Īccording to a WINK News report, Brent Probinsky, an attorney for the family, was among those who spoke at the news conference. Photo courtesy of the Coalition of Immokalee WorkersĪ statement from the Church, calling for “complete transparency” in the death of Nicolas Morales Besanilla, 37, of Immokalee was released Wednesday in conjunction with a news conference attended by relatives and concerned community members and groups in Florida.
There has been an outpouring of grief and concern since the fatal shooting of Nicolas Morales Besanilla on Sept.
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