Elder refuses to let son's death go: Killed by prison guard in 1988

For over a decade-and-a-half an Indian elder has been fighting to get justice for his dead son, killed in a California prison under circumstances that remain cloudy to this day. The crusade has attracted the attention of a documentary filmmaker who hopes to produce a feature on the controversial case. " I have been living with this for sixteen years," Tony Nieto, 72, repeatedly states in an interview with the Native American Times. What he has been living with is the shooting death of his son, Anthony "Angry Bear" Nieto, on June 2, 1988, in Folsom State Prison. Initially, the California Department of Corrections said a prison guard, Moises Guerrero, gunned Angry Bear down to stop him from stabbing another inmate to death. They also claimed that Guerrero issued a warning before opening fire. Tony Nieto never believed it. He maintains the shooting was racially motivated. [more ]

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[jag]

why don't elder people sent out letters to the young people to let them know what prisons' are like for they doesn't get the idea to go to prison