Luke Ghost Bear
 Justice for Luke Ghost Bear Protest March Through Rapid City
Thursday - March 20, 2003 at 10:00 a.m.
March will begin at the Mother Butler Center and go to the location where Lucas was shot and then onto the Rapid City Police Department.
We are asking people to gather at the starting point - the Mother Butler Center to begin the walk.
A meal will be served at the Mother Butler after the walk. Food donations can be taken to Stacy Scares Hawk in Rapid City.
From the Committee for Justice for Luke Ghost Bear and the Red Nation Lakota Patrol.
JoAnne Tall - 867-2364;
Michelle Thunder Hawk - 867 -2072;
Stacy Scares Hawk - 718 - 5177
March scheduled for Thursday...For Fallin' Ghost
Bear
From Loujan55
A March has been planned for Thurday March 20,2003 at 10:00 am, in Rapid
City, SD call 605.867.2072 for details.
A special recongnition/prayer ceremony by Sundancers, will take place at
about 9:45-10:00am, at place where Lucas Ghost Bear had been killed.
From There a March will take place, they will be walking the the court
house in Rapid City, SD.
Canadian Dakota, Natives from all over will show support for fallen native
youth, Sicangu, Hunkpapa, Miniconju, Oceti Sakowin Nation will be there.
Drug abuse and Suicidal statements justified shooting with deadly
force...Lakota Youth had no knife, he had a piece of paper.
Officer nine years on force had all the time in the world to shoot the leg
to imobilize, or was there even a knife?
Officer had run ins with Lakota Before....We want him sent off the Great
Sioux Reservation...1851 Treaty lands.
That is Customary!
Additional activities...Lakota New Year...Spring Solstices
Walk and Ceremony at Harney Peak...prayer offerings for the coming
year...for all ike oyate, animals, nature, unci make....
Man Shot, Killed by Police Rapid City Journal (2003 March 12)
Victim's Family Wants 'the Truth' Rapid City Journal (2003 March 12)
The family of Lucas Ghost Bear wants to know how the 21- year-old, described as " a good-natured, respectful boy," came to be killed Sunday in a confrontation with a Rapid City police officer.
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