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Murder of Luis “Jr.” Martinez , bombing of the Crusade for Justice headquarters Murder of Luis “Jr.” Martinez , bombing of the Crusade for Justice headquarters
Call Number: CAP 149Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Real DragonCollection: Political issues of the time – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
After a party at the Crusade headquarters, 2 police cars were surveying people. The crusade headquarters were under constant police surveillance. The Crusade were surrounded by 10 police units . The police blocked off the road around the crusade building- Luis “jr.” Martinez was killed in an alley behind the headquarters. Three witnesses saw Martinez in police custody prior to his death, they say he ran between the buildings , contradicts police statements. the Crusade party was going on in only one unit of the building, the police searched all 10 units, then later came up with a warrant about noon, didn’t deliver the warrant to any of the tenants. the police were shooting into the crusade building (where they claimed they had been targeted by sniper fire ) then there was a loud explosion. A bomb. at 9:30 Corky Gonzales brought in a an independent explosives detective to investigate, police charged him with unlawful use of an explosive and aggravated assault on an officer. the independent explosive detective was denied entry along with Corky the police stated they needed a court order for entry into the building to conduct the investigation. Corky and the Crusaders believe that it was a police conspiracy along with the FBI to provoke an incident in order to justify a search of all 10 units of the Crusade’s headquarters. the police and FBI believed the headquarters was being used as a storage place for weapons to be used at the American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee.
Reports on the murder of Luis “Jr” Martinez & Ricardo Falcon of the Crusade for Justice Reports on the murder of Luis “Jr” Martinez & Ricardo Falcon of the Crusade for Justice
Date: 8/31/1972Call Number: CD 368Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
After a party at the Crusade headquarters, 2 police cars were surveying people. The crusade headquarters were under constant police surveillance. The Crusade were surrounded by 10 police units. The police blocked off the road around the crusade building- Luis “jr.” Martinez was killed in an alley behind the headquarters. Three witnesses saw Martinez in police custody prior to his death. They say he ran between the buildings, which contradicts police statements. The Crusade party was happening one unit of the building. The police searched all 10 units, then later came up with a warrant about noon. They didn’t deliver the warrant to any of the tenants. The police were shooting into the crusade building (where they claimed they had been targeted by sniper fire). There was a loud explosion. A bomb. at 9:30 Corky Gonzales brought in a an independent explosives detective to investigate, police charged him with unlawful use of an explosive and aggravated assault on an officer. the independent explosive detective was denied entry along with Corky the police stated they needed a court order for entry into the building to conduct the investigation. Corky and the Crusaders believe that it was a police conspiracy along with the FBI to provoke an incident in order to justify a search of all 10 units of the Crusade’s headquarters. the police and FBI believed the headquarters was being used as a storage place for weapons to be used at the American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee. Same as CAP 149 Report on Ricardo Falcon murder by police 1. Murder of Ricardo Falcon in Almagordo, NM 2. Background of Raza Unida Party convention 3. Falcon Press conference with Priscilla Falcon (widow) and Francisco “Kiko” Martinez (lawyer) Same as CAP 195