Jamiel's Law may move to ballot
Mayoral candidate Walter Moore said Thursday he has begun a drive to put "Jamiel's Law" on the March 2009 Los Angeles city ballot — the same one in which he is trying to unseat Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
If adopted, the law would permit Los Angeles police officers to arrest gang members for breaking U.S. immigration law. It would supersede Special Order 40, a 29-year-old LAPD policy that bars officers from arresting or questioning people solely on suspicion of being in the country illegally. Moore told a crowd of about 200 people — gathered at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre to hear about his proposal — that he decided on an initiative after hearing no response from City Council members to his request for an ordinance.
Jamiel's Law is named for Jamiel Shaw II, 17, who was shot to death by suspected gang members on March 2 close to his Arlington Heights home. Police arrested Pedro Espinoza, 19, who reportedly entered the U.S. illegally at age 4. Police say Espinoza is a member of the 18th Street Gang. He was released from jail, where he was being held on a weapons charge, a day before the killing.
Espinoza had been arrested by Culver City police and jailed and released by the Sheriff's Department, so the LAPD and Special Order 40 did not come into play. But Moore has dismissed that point, saying, in effect, that if his law had been in place, LAPD officers at some point prior to his weapons arrest would have seen Espinoza, identified him as a gang member, and arrested him on immigration charges.
The killing of Jamiel Shaw II, and Moore's advocacy for the change in the law, has united some black and white illegal immigration opponents, threatened to widen a gulf between African Americans and Latino immigrants, and forced city officials to refocus on Special Order 40. At least some LAPD officers appear to believe, incorrectly, that the policy prevents them from cooperating or even communicating with immigration authorities. A senior lead officer who misquoted Special Order 40 in a March newsletter, adding in anti-cooperation language, acknowledged that he got the wording not from the LAPD manual but from the American Patrol anti-illegal-immigration web site.
LAPD Chief William J. Bratton said he would clarify the policy for his officers. He also told the Times editorial board that he would make no changes to the order.
Moore repeated his assertion that the Times caters to Latino illegal immigrants because its parent company, Tribune, also owns the Spanish-language paper Hoy.
"The mayor, the City Council, and L.A. Times/Hoy won't take action," Moore said. "It's up to you."
Also speaking at the event were KRLA radio personality Kevin James and the young victim's father, Jamiel Shaw Sr.
James called for audience members to support Moore's campaign financially. "It's really expensive to run for mayor of Los Angeles against a former gang member who is the incumbent," James said.
Villaraigosa was not a gang member, but the claim that he was has become popular among illegal immigration opponents.
Shaw criticized the deputy district attorney prosecuting Espinoza, saying he worried she would try to portray his son as a gang member because he was carrying a red Spiderman backpack. "I want everybody to know," he said, "the fix is in."
The biased media will not reveal the ugly truth? About the incessant murders, female and child violations, the drunken drivers and the carnage that goes on in every community within our borders. The unrestricted evidence about our open border and the pending Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) and the new Presidents AMNESTY.
For the stark unsuppressed reality of the truth, about the illegal immigration invasion, that can only be found on the Internet. NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH, LIBERTY POST, IMMIGRATION NEWS INDEXER, UNIPAC and VDARE.
TIME TO FIGHT BACK OR SHUT UP!
Posted by: Brittanicus | May 02, 2008 at 08:14 PM
Support Jamiel's Law Rally - Tomorrow 11 AM Los Angeles High School.
Posted by: Minuteman | May 02, 2008 at 09:16 PM
Bratton, Villaragosa and Boca should be charged with aiding and abetting illegal alien violent felons.
These three leaders of safety in Los Angeles, California are not up holding their oath of office and protecting American citizens and legal aliens living in the city of Los Angeles.
Posted by: Cheryl | May 02, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Villaraigosa would love nothing more than to open our borders and allow as many Mexican nationals into our country as possible. He may not have been a gang member but that depends on what you call a "gang". He is a member of MEChA. When he was at UCLA he was responsible for allowing the communist into the Hispanic studies group. He did graduate UCLA as a law student but has failed the bar 4 times. He divorced his wife after his notorious affair with Mirthala, so much for family values. What a great role model this guy is. Time to vote out Tony Villar.
Posted by: Stephen | May 03, 2008 at 02:23 PM
I recently heard on the radio Jamiel Shaw Sr state that an LA Deputy DA had encouraged him to drop his support for Jamiel's law. Has La Times assigned one of it top notch reporters to investigate this? That's a pretty heavy accusation. Or is this another one of the many stories that will be buried because of La Times' pro ILLEGAL immigrant position??? Legal citizens of Los Angeles can only hope that the next Mayoral election will really be a city wide referendum on ILLEGAL immigration. It's about time.
Posted by: Ray S | May 03, 2008 at 04:25 PM
Amen Brother.
If Special Order 40 is about protecting illegal immigrant informants and witnesses, then it should protect just those few. Not every single one of them! Besides, fear of gang retaliation will keep them from coming forward, so what good is it. This is all just a bunch of liberal pansy-ass political correctness. Tony (whatever his last name is this week) is gonna be out of there!
Posted by: DollarDave | May 03, 2008 at 04:44 PM
I'm not waiting for my $600.00 stimulus tax check. I will be sending it to Walter Moore now to support him. Thank you Bush. I just spent it. Thank you Walter Moore for supporting us. I wish I could send more. Hey maybe I can. Maybe a grand. Most likely a grand. You are a grand type of guy & most deserve it. Not the crap that we get from our city council, mayor & bratton. Good Going Walter Moore!! Best that I have seen yet!!!
Posted by: Joan | May 03, 2008 at 07:38 PM
You just got my $600.00 stimulus check Walter Moore. Thank you for supporting us. Good Job. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Joan | May 03, 2008 at 07:45 PM
We won't get Tony V. out unless we push to enforce the lidea that we need photo ID to vote....All the illegal groups are registering illegals to vote....so,,,,Tony V. will be reellected with a landslide....We need to wake up and push for the enachment of this voter ID thing,,,or OUR vote won't count...Get all your news from sites like Alipac.us....not the biased newspapers...also listen to the Terry Anderson show 9 ro 10 PM Sunday nights on 720AM ...If you ain't mad...you ain't paying attention!!
Posted by: Grandma.... | May 03, 2008 at 07:49 PM
Times won't let me post because I am pro-Walter Moore
Posted by: Times | May 03, 2008 at 07:50 PM
It's about time some one stands up for us. Walter has my vote. And all my friends and their kids. How many illegal votes does the mayor have?
Posted by: laKelley | May 03, 2008 at 08:00 PM
I realize this is a big step, pioneering for LA, but why not arrest anyone who breaks United States Immigration Laws not just identified gang members?
Posted by: lccat | May 03, 2008 at 08:35 PM
Tony Villar, Bratton and Baca should all be charged under the RICO laws for operating a criminal protection racket. They are conspiring to avoid Federal laws and should be charged as any crime organization would be.
To have local officials essentially declare their own country with it's own laws is stunning considering several million died during the last civil war over protecting their valued "laborers". Without law enforcement, chaos and anarchy isn't far behind, or another civil war.
Posted by: Jimi | May 04, 2008 at 07:26 AM
I stopped taking the L.A. Times a couple of years ago when I discovered they weren't telling the truth about the effects of illegal immigration on American tax payers and were pushing an open borders agenda. I researched the facts and found out the truth on my own and decided why did I need a news paper to "research" the facts just to spin the truth for big business the city council and the mayor.
Just Saturday my husband and I received a new special offer to take the L.A. Times again. Never! If they can't print the truth then who really needs them?
As for the Mayor, the City Council and Chief Bratton - they all need to be out of jobs for good - obvioulsy they have a hard time upholding the law in America and representing Americans so I suggest they move south of the border where they will be more at home.
Posted by: CJ | May 04, 2008 at 07:43 AM
Everybody knows that the L.A. Times caters to the millions of illegal aliens living of,of taxpayers in Los Angeles county. It's the same old cemented group of pro-illegal immigration lobbiest's, for big business, the church machine and the majority of the national press. However I do get my commentary printed in the Los Angeles Daily News. All Sanctuary city ordinances needs closure around this nation. Houston police officer was murdered because of an abhorrent Sanctuary city travesty.
Posted by: Brittanicus | May 08, 2008 at 12:00 PM
We no longer have any real investigative reporting where the local officials are concerned. When a news story contains language like: "The killing of Jamiel Shaw II, and Moore's advocacy for the change in the law, has united some black and white illegal immigration opponents, threatened to widen a gulf between African Americans and Latino immigrants..." then you know the writer is giving opinion, not fact. Slant, slant, slant.
I voted for Moore in the last mayoral election, after checking how he stands on the issues, and I will vote for him again, and I am a long-time registered Democrat.
My sympathies go out to the Shaws.
Posted by: PLS | May 13, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, California's governor and the bunch of sheep in city hall, who timidly follow without question the dictates of the Hispanic Caucus. It is estimated their are 1.5 million illegal immigrants living in Los Angeles county. They all bow to the special interests groups, that run a monopoly in Los Angeles. They illegally strangled proposition 187, then added added the Sanctuary city ordinance (Special order 40). Its consequences has been massacres by out-of-control street gangs, that threatens anybody who steps in their neighborhood. It killed a young black man, whose only crime was to be on their turf at the wrong time. 'Jamiels Law' should be enacted to protect innocent citizens and Chief of Police Bratton's Special Order 40 should be eradicated and leave the police enquirer the status of anybody they question.
According to the grieving family of the murdered young man, that even the Prosecutor on the case tried to intimidate them The family, stated they are determined to prosecute this case as a 'Hate Crime' So Police chief Bratton wants to keep the abhorrent 'Special order 40' as a law, even though hundreds of people have been heinously slaughtered by animals in street gangs. Jamiels family has a petition at (www.jamielslaw.com, to rescind this law, that has allowed dangerous gangs to propagate. I signed the petition today, so that this tormented family can get this law on a ballot measure. You too can also sign the petition! The fact that the majority of the street gangs in any community across the county are illegal aliens, including the MS 13 violent animals, who threaten and kill indiscriminately.
Californian citizens demand their Democratic lawmakers co-author the pending federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) it will not only strengthen other state laws, but also remove the obnoxious stain from Los Angeles called a SANCTUARY CITY. Los Angeles and other city governments around this nation needs a good cleaning and its putrefaction should be emptied down the gutter and washed away with the other waste.
Posted by: Brittanicus | May 13, 2008 at 06:53 PM