Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy at the funeral for Valentina Orellana Peralta, who was killed by police when a stray bullet pierced a department store dressing room.
Mourners gathered at a funeral to remember Valentina Orellana Peralta, who was shot by Los Angeles police in December as they pursued a man in a department store. The 14-year-old died inside a dressing room in her mother’s arms.
“If this was a department store in an upscale area, would you have been shooting like that? I wonder if it had been in another area, another income level, another race, would people be looking at this as a tragedy [rather] than a travesty?” civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton said in a eulogy at Orellana Peralta’s funeral Monday, at the City of Refuge church in Gardena, south of Los Angeles.
“We must make new laws, we must make new training,” urged Sharpton, who has delivered eulogies at the funerals of