Oxnard conference to focus on “extra-judicial killings” by officers

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Civil-rights groups and relatives of those killed in confrontations with police will gather Saturday in a conference at Oxnard College to address what organizers are calling “extra-judicial killings” by officers.

“We want to call attention to the effects that police brutality has on the community and the families of those who have been killed by police,” said Francisco Romero, a member of Todo Poder al Pueblo Collection, a community group out of Oxnard. Romero spoke Tuesday afternoon at a news conference in front of the Cruz Reynoso Justice Center in downtown Oxnard.

The center is named for a former California Supreme Court justice who is scheduled to speak at the conference on Saturday.

The conference comes some six months after hundreds of protesters marched through Oxnard over deaths in incidents involving police officers.

Organizers hope the families of those who died in the incidents will be at Oxnard College on Saturday along with the families of others who have been killed elsewhere in California.

“This will be the first statewide conference of its kind,” Romero said. “We want to unite families that are the victims of these extra-judicial homicides.”