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STRUGGLE IN GILROY DEATH INCLUDED USE OF CAROTID RESTRAINT Michael Moore Reporter
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Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith would like to eliminate the carotid control hold from the sheriff ’s office use-of-force policy, because there is too much room for injury-resulting error. Local law enforcement agencies say the use of the carotid restraint is not common. However, they train for it and reserve it as a use-of-force technique in the field to compel disobedient, violent subjects to submit to arrest. The carotid hold recently gained local attention when Gilroy Police reported that officers used the restraint, among other non-lethal techniques, to attempt to arrest an unarmed suspected prowler, Steven Juarez on Feb. 25. Juarez died after a struggle with officers in the Old Gilroy neighborhood. Police said at least one officer applied a carotid hold and used a Taser and other use-offorce techniques on Juarez while he tried to resist. An investigation into Juarez’ death is ongoing,
POPPY GIRL Three-year-old Amy Lentz finds a poppy-filled resting spot in Gilroy public garden.
Garden seeks new roots DEMONSTRATION GARDEN PLANS TO BUILD A BROADER ‘COMMUNITY’ Bryce Stoepfel
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The era of the Gilroy Demonstration Garden will come to an end. Driven by a new board of directors, the large garden plot in downtown Gilroy is about to be transformed into a Gilroy Community Garden. Board of Directors President Steven Stratton believes the
change will help the garden to grow deeper roots in the community, and produce thousands of pounds of nutritious, organic food. “Vital, vibrant and attractive in the heart of downtown,” Stratton said of his vision for the future of the Gilroy Demonstration Garden. “We will teach people how to grow their food and give them a place to grow it.” Initially conceived in 2010 by the Gilroy Leadership Class of 2010, the Gilroy Demonstration Garden was designed to be different from other community
gardens. With the change, comes a shift in terminology and philosophy. The demonstration garden shows the community how to build an organic garden. The community garden will invite the community to claim small 4-foot by 10-foot plots in which they can grow vegetables for their homes or businesses. The Demonstration Garden was intended to be a familyfriendly space, where the community could learn about gardening. Unlike many other community gardens, it would not offer individual plots, and would
have no strict rules determining what was to be grown. The garden also relied entirely on volunteers to maintain the grounds. Stratton, a financial and insurance advisor, was formerly one of the driving forces behind the Morgan Hill Community Garden. He moved to Gilroy in 2016, and again sought to become active in community gardening. “Nature abhors a vacuum, and I was sucked quickly sucked into a board position,” Stratton said. ➝ Demogarden, 13
Muslim family helps raise awareness GILROY DISTRICT RESPONDS TO BULLYING AND INTOLERANCE Scott Forstner Reporter
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A Christopher High School student is enjoying her school experience much more this year than last year, when she and her family say she was emotionally shaken from consistent bullying for her Islamic faith. Now a sophomore, the student
has not reported any more recent incidents of harassment at school—which her mother attributed to the response of the Gilroy Unified School District. The 16-year-old is even comfortable enough to participate in afterschool activities, according to her mother. That was not the case during her freshman year, which prompted the student, along with her family, to have a sitdown interview with National Geographic reporter Leila Fadel last year for a special series
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titled, “Muslims in America: A New Generation,” in the May issue of the National Geographic Magazine sent to subscribers last week. The article also was posted this month on National Public Radio’s website, npr.org. The Dispatch is not identifying the girl, at the request of her mother. The headline that accompanied Fadel’s piece, “Bullied For Its Faith, Muslim Family Fights Back Through Education,” did not paint a positive picture of Santa Clara County’s southernmost
city. The experiences of Noshaba Afzal’s daughter at Christopher High shaped that headline. The family was interviewed more than a year ago. “We were clear with the reporter that we were sharing our story to create awareness and create positive change,” Afzal explained. “We love the city of Gilroy and, for the most part, we haven’t experienced any negativity, but multiple incidents did occur at school.” ➝Tolerance, 10
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