LA MESA (CNS)-The non-profit organization La Mesa Conversations and the community organization Envision La Mesa held La Mesa Remembrance Day on Sunday to commemorate the first anniversary of the controversial protest at La Mesa Police Headquarters, which was organized by George The death of George Floyd in custody triggered the arrest of Amaurie Johnson in Minneapolis and controversial places.

Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Congresswoman Akilah Weber, San Diego-D, are the scheduled speakers.

The protests in La Mesa in late May 2020 began peacefully, and then gradually evolved into robberies and riots after dark.

According to the FBI, Ricky Bernard Cooper, 33, and Alexander Jacob King, 19, were suspected of destructive demonstrations in East County. Arrested and arrested during the activity.

Cooper and King allegedly committed these crimes during the May 30 protests, which were caused by police violent contact with blacks, including Memorial Day, the murder of Floyd, and two The day after the arrest of 23-year-old San Diego Johnson at the Grossmont Transit Center in Los Angeles. mesa.

The initial peaceful afternoon demonstrations broke out in chaos, and it is estimated that as many as 1,000 people blocked Interstate 8 in both directions.

On-site video shows that at least one car caught fire near La Mesa City Hall, and vandals destroyed the shop windows of a nearby shopping center.

As night fell, looters and arsonists stole the closed Fons supermarket, Sprouts store and Goodwill retail store. Smashed the windows of other companies; and lit two banks.

According to the federal agency, the reason for the arrest of Cooper and King was a joint investigation conducted by La Mesa, the San Diego police and the FBI. The agency did not disclose what caused the authorities to identify the two men as suspects in the case.

Last summer, former La Mesa police officer Matthew Dages was fired for arresting Johnson on May 27, who was captured on video and circulated on social media.

According to a letter of dismissal issued by the then police chief Walt Vasquez last summer, Daji was fired on charges of violating several police department rules and regulations.

The now retired chief wrote that Dages made false and misleading statements about Johnson’s alleged smoking and ticket evasion in his police report. The letter stated that Daguis also failed to activate his body camera in time during the arrest and “instructed Johnson to use profanity, rude language and make impolite remarks.”

The La Mesa Personnel Appeals Board upheld Daguis’s expulsion in December.

In an executive order submitted to the San Diego High Court in March, Dages asked the city and the Appeals Board to “set aside its decision and discipline, restore and restore the petitioner’s position, and restore all outstanding wages and loss of profits, And interest.”

After his arrest, Johnson was released lightly, and the police department subsequently announced that it would not file a lawsuit against him. Johnson later filed a federal lawsuit against Dages and La Mesa.

Last year, the La Mesa Police Department released uniformed camera footage showing a police officer firing crowd control pellets at a woman during a violent and brutal protest, seriously hurting her.

Also on Wednesday afternoon, the department publicly identified the La Mesa police officer who opened fire on 59-year-old Leslie Falkron during the riots that broke out outside the LMPD headquarters during the May 30 demonstration.

Vasquez said that the department’s 12-year detective Eric Knudson (Eric Knudson) has been on paid leave awaiting the completion of the investigation into the incident.

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