Juan Flores Palasios

How they died

Deadly force

Juan Palasios was shot in the back after he allegedly threatened a police officer. He was leaving Johnny's when patrol Officers Jose Irizarry and Emery Simmons warned him that he could not drink from an open container in the street. Palasios then pulled a knife from a homemade sheath and began threatening Irizarry, police said. The officers told him to drop the weapon, but when he appeared to reach for Irizarry's collar, and Simmons shot and killed Palasios.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Juan Flores Palasios, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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