The community is invited to a celebration of the renaming of a section of a city street after Pedie Perez, who died at the hands of a police officer a decade ago, and whose case has led to police reform both locally and statewide.
The event will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, at Pedie Perez Avenue (formerly Spring Street) at 33rd Street. Refreshments will be served.
Perez was fatally shot on Sept. 14, 2014, by now-retired Richmond police Officer Wallace Jensen outside of Uncle Sam’s Liquor Store on Cutting Boulevard, near to the street being renamed after him. Following a decade of vigorous advocacy by his family, the City of Richmond Citizen Police Review Commission ruled in 2018 that the officer’s use of force was excessive and unecessary. In 2016, the Perez family settled a wrongful death civil suit for $850,000.
