At Rest

Deadly force
Pineda was an immigrant Salvadoran restaurant worker who was confronted by plainclothes police officers and stabbed on of them in the leg. Officers responded by shooting him to death. Reporting of the incident raised the possibility that the language barrier may have contributed to Pineda's demise.
This record exists so that Jose Pineda, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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