Rigoberto Alpizar

How they died

Deadly force

Costa Rica-born U.S. citizen Alpizar had just boarded a plane when he began to act erratically. Arguing with his wife, he announced that he had to get off the plane. She followed, shouting that he was ill. Two air marshals ordered him to stop, he did not, and he was shot to death. Eyewitnesses sharply disagreed about any threat Alpizar posed, and were angered by the armed aggression officials directed at other passengers afterward.

Why we remember them

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

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