Jose Pacheco Ceballos

How they died

Deadly force

Jose Ceballos became involved in a fight at an apartment. Officer William Bridgewater responded, and kicked down the apartment door as Sergeant Jose Porras arrived and someone in the apartment screamed. Ceballos confronted the officers with a cigarette in one hand and a knife in the other. He flicked the cigarette at the officers and raised his knife hand. Officer Bridgewater shot him once, fatally, in the chest.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jose Pacheco Ceballos, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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