Jorge Ramirez's Family Did Not Rest Until the Truth Came Out

In September 2013, Jorge Ramirez was once running as an informant for police when he used to be killed by them. His family exposed the truth about his demise.

"This is one of the most powerful projects I've ever been involved with," says govt manufacturer Colin Kaepernick, forward of the trailer for Hulu's Killing County. Alongside ABC News Studios, Colin is bringing a tragic story of murder, police coverup, and a family's resolution to reveal the truth.

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In September 2013, 34-year-old Jorge Ramirez used to be gunned down through police throughout a sting operation. The father of five was an informant but that wasn't the story authorities would later peddle to the media.

While Ramirez had for sure made some mistakes in the past, he used to be seeking to do the right thing the night he was killed. His family never believed what police were saying had happened, they usually vowed to uncover the truth. May all of us have other folks in our lives as brave and devoted as Jorge Ramirez's family.

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What took place to Jorge Ramirez? His family wanted to seek out out.

According to Bakersfield.com, there were some lovely important info lacking from the police's retelling of the events surrounding the loss of life of Jorge Ramirez. The outlet assembled a timeline of the final 10 hours of Ramirez's existence, much of which used to be very easily buried by means of authorities.

This all began when Ramirez was once offered a deal by means of police, who requested him to grow to be an informant in change for a pending drug trial date to be driven again. At the time, Ramirez was once pleasant with a man via the title of Justin Harger, who was a wanted felon. The plan was for Ramirez to get Harger to agree to satisfy for an informal hangout. Unfortunately, issues became fatal for both of them.

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The evening of the taking pictures, Ramirez communicated multiple times with Officer Lerry Esparza, his "handler." Esparza was off duty but spent the evening relaying messages from Ramirez to the officials running the case. In later reviews of what ultimately took place, there are a number of inconsistencies, however one throughline used to be that authorities mentioned that they had no idea Ramirez was an informant and didn't have a description of him.

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Initially, Harger met Ramirez at his home, however police by no means set up surveillance there. Later, detectives would claim they'd an unmarked van parked out of doors of Ramirez's home however most likely missed the two males leaving. Ramirez and Harger then stopped at an Arco gasoline station the place, as soon as once more, police did not select Harger up.

Ramirez and Harger after all ended up at the Four Points via Sheraton around 12:Forty three a.m. The second they pulled into the parking lot, police surrounded the van. Chaos ensued as they claimed they concept Harger was in the passenger seat, but he was in fact riding. When Ramirez tried to flee — assuming authorities knew he was an informant — he was once shot more than one occasions. Once once more, police on the scene claimed that they had no description of Ramirez and had been not instructed he was operating with them. This fact remained hidden through police for a number of weeks until Jorge Ramirez's family started digging.

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Jorge Ramirez's family exposed corruption in the Bakersfield Police Department.

Killing County does not prevent with the loss of life of Jorge Ramirez. Because of his family's dedication to telling their son's tale, they uncovered a development of violence within the Bakersfield Police Department. Theirs used to be not the handiest family to lose any individual in a police-involved shooting.

Unfortunately, Ramirez never signed any paperwork naming him as an informant. However, it ultimately came out that not best used to be Ramirez running with police, but the two detectives (Diaz and Mara) were serious about unlawful actions.

"In October 2016, Diaz and Mara were each sentenced to five years in prison for using their positions as officers to steal methamphetamine and marijuana they seized during the course of their work and using a third person to get the drugs back on the street and profit from their sales," by means of KGET. This is what tipped the scale against the Bakersfield Police Department, but it surely was once just the starting.

For more in this extremely shifting story, circulation Killing County on Hulu starting Friday, Feb. 3.

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