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Additionally, the university must play a crucial role in ensuring that the students who have been charged with the most recent hate-crime are not only removed from the university, but also charged with felonies denoting that their hate-crimes violated civil rights. Rev. SJSU Deaths and Terrorism

SJPD Officer Dokes was also at the Sigma Chi fraternity house when police responded to a call about Gregory’s suicide. The family of Gregory Johnson Jr. is still actively searching for answers concerning his death in the basement of Sigma Chi Fraternity House on the San Jose State University campus on Nov. 22, 2008. Long live the greatest threat to the internal security of the US, the Black Panther Party! Gregory’s body had no marking on his neck to suggest strangulation, which is odd considering police reports stated he had been hanging for nearly 2 hours before his body was discovered.

Authorities said “suicide,” but how can a 6 foot, 2 inch tall man of superior strength hang himself from a six-foot basement ceiling? As a well-respected university in the heart of San Jose, California–one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the nation–it is the university’s duty to make it clear that racism has no place in our community. The parents believe their son, Gregory Johnson Jr., did not commit suicide but was the victim of a hate crime on the San Jose campus. Brenden Tiggs, 18, was a freshman studying kinesiology.

Thank you. The house was filled with fraternity boys who Denise Johnson believed were looking for a fight—Denise remembers seeing a police riot squad van parked at the house when they arrived.

I have delayed beginning work on Rev. Members of the fraternity claimed to have found his body in the basement, hanging in a sitting position with his legs in front of him and a heavy-duty extension cord tied around his neck. Below is a list of things that have led his family to believe his death needs to be reinvestigated as a murder: Gregory stood at a height of 6-foot-2 and weighed 185 lbs.

Why Is Former San Jose State University Student Gregory Johnson, Jr.’s Death Still An Unsolved Mystery?

My questions are many. The Johnson family took many picture of Gregory’s body when it arrived to the mortuary for burial, and these pictures do not show scars on his neck that would have been evident from a ligature hanging.

Valdez filed the lawsuit on behalf of her and Antonio’s 5 year-old son, Josiah Lopez, who is also the face of the Justice for Josiah campaign. San Jose State University has a history of so-called suicides among Black men, but many of these cases involve suspicious circumstances.

Fraternity Life & Death Parents of SJSU student found hanging inside fraternity house ask statute of limitation be set aside

The FBI took over the case, investigating it as a possible hate crime. The Johnson family filed a lawsuit pro-per in Feb 2015, hoping the courts would force SJSUPD and the coroner’s office to release all documents from the investigation to the Johnson family; this lawsuit was thrown out due to statute of limitations. Thousands of people read Bill’s articles on the “Lawless America” website at this URL http://lawlessamerica.com and tuned in to communicate with Bill during his TalkShoe.com conference calls. When Denise’s daughter-in-law went through the phone later that night, she found that all of Gregory’s pictures had been deleted and somebody had attempted to call his voicemail at 8:30 pm on November 22, nearly 6 hours after his estimated time of death. Why Is Former San Jose State University Student Gregory Johnson, Jr.’s Death Still An Unsolved Mystery? Ergo, Gregory Marcel Johnson, Jr. Do not misjudge me, the wretched death of anyone regardless of their stats is wrong. What happened to the extension cord Gregory supposedly used for self-murder?

Two of the SJSUPD officers, Santos and Van Der Hoek, were also named in the recent federal lawsuit Laurie Valdez filed against SJSU and SJSUPD for the death of Antonio Guzman Lopez on February 21, 2014.

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Gregory’s mother was not notified of his death until several hours had already passed: grief counselors and university administration were notified of her son’s death before she ever received a call, and thirty days passed before her son’s body was returned home. The Grand Master of the fraternity was also already at the house when the Johnson family arrived.

An independent autopsy proving that Gregory did not die by strangulation from suicide would force authorities to re-open the investigation.

Officer Dokes was also involved in the Feb 2015 fatal shooting of Phillip Watkins, an unarmed African-American male who was shot in the back by police officers who were responding to a 911 call for a mental health crisis. Here is were my ire set in: it was stated that Johnson was found hanging from a pipe in the basement and his “knees were bent, legs resting on the floor underneath him”. The complaint goes on to state, however, that a coroner told the family the head injury occurred as part of the autopsy process.”. The Johnsons are still raising money to exhume Gregory’s body from Lower Lake Cemetery for an independent pathologist to do a second autopsy. The Santa Clara County medical examiner’s autopsy report states the cause of death as a ligature hanging. But more importantly, why is it still so easy to kill a black man in America and bury the story?????? The night Gregory died in his frat house, his family was not informed for seven hours, and they were not allowed to identify his body. 8 Mysterious Black Deaths That Social Media Forgot.

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