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Thursday, October 22, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Topeka police investigate death of man with toy gun
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - A police review board is investigating yesterday's fatal shooting of a man who pointed what turned out to be a toy gun at an officer, a spokesman for the Topeka Police Department said.
The department is not expected to push for a local ban of toy guns as a result of the incident, said Lt. Bud Brooks.
Brooks said the department's review board normally conducts inquiries following a fatal shooting. He added that not be released, likely will be
reliable of duty until the panel issues a report.
The victim was identified as Francisco Almaraz, 29.
Police responded to a call from residents in northeast Topeka early yesterday who reported a domestic disturbance.
Brooks said shots were fired as police approached, and Almaraz barricaded himself in the house. Police made telephone contact with him and he came to the door several times, holding what appeared to be a handgun, Brooks said.
house and pointed the handgun at the officer, Brooks said. The officer then fired his shotgun once, striking the officer in the neck. The nounced dead at St. Franis Hospital.
Almaraz then came out of the
"It was determined that the hand-gun he was pointing was a toy pistol."
This apparently was the first case in Topeka where a police officer was confronted by an individual wielding a toy gun.
Officials in several other Kansas communities have said that officers in similar situations can't tell the difference.
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natural thing to get a job with the railroad or in a factory, he said.
"My family came here in 1928 and had its first college graduate in 1978," he said. "That's 50 years to produce the first college graduate. We didn't have this kind of opportunity to listen and develop an energy level and idea of what higher education is all about."
Ruiz became the first Hispanic elected to office in Kansas City, Kan..
in 100 years, when he was elected in 1983.
"When they see Hispanics having greater importance in city government, in television and the media, in corporations, it tells them and reinforces them," he said. "They can say 'Yes.' So I can, and so can my children."
Ernie Garcia, a KU graduate,
former sergeant at arms of the U.S.
Senate and currently an aide to
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., delivered the keynote address.
Garcia told students that Hispanics must get involved in politics and stay involved. He said that Hispanics and other minorities tended to concentrate only on issues that were important to them.
On Campus
He also told the students that they shouldn't assume they would be best served in the Democratic Party.
"La conyuntura política y economica del Paraguay," a Latin American studies brown bag lunch he presented in Spanish by Melissa Birch, is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. today in 109 Lippincott Hall.
■ "Proteins Induced in Q Fever or Endotoxemia," a microbiology lecture by graduate student Mandana Dillen (UCF) at 2:30 p.m. today in 6031 Haworth Hall.
"Crystal at Half the Speed of Light," a condensed matter seminar by R.N. Boyd, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in 3005 Mollitt Hall.
of Invariant Subspaces," a mathematics colloquium by Ernst Albrect, professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Saarbrücken, is scheduled for 4 p.m. today in 115 Strong Hall.
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Environs Club meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today in the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Jayhawks for UNICEF is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today in Parlor A the Kansas Union.
- "Bishop's Property and Existence
A faculty recital with Thomas Aushworth on trombone is scheduled for 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
A bicycle waived at $600 was taken Oct. 17 from a residence in the 1500 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police reported.
An AM-FM radio/cassette player and two stereo speakers valued at $400 were taken between midnight and 8 a.m. Oct. 17 from a peeked in the 500 block of Minnesota Street, Lawrence police reported.
- An AM-FM radio/cassette player and a 12-volt battery valued at $240 were taken between midnight and 8 a.m. Oct. 17 from a car parked at Utah Court, Lawrence police reported.
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Aids
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Randy Gould, director of the Kansas City Free Health Clinic, said programs that provide health care information were instrumental way needed to be developed.
Gould said his clinic treated many people considered to be in the high-risk population: intravenous drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
AIDS also hits minorities hard, he said, because of inadequate education programs. Even though blacks make up 12 percent of the population, they compose 25 percent of the people who have AIDS. Eighty percent of babies who have AIDS are black, he said.
"The virus itself does not discriminate, but people discriminate." Gould said "The history of racial segregation is the story of care services in this country, and it
has affected the development of AIDS health care."
Gould said education programs in the Netherlands were effective in decreasing the spread of AIDS. He said that in the Netherlands intravenous drug users could exchange needles without the risk of arrest, and because of this, Australia has no prostitutes. Australia also has a free peedie distribution program, he said.
The result of this discrimination is that AIDS treatment is less available to minorities, he said, and efforts to improvements of the population are needed.
The Very Rev J. Earl Cavannah of Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Kansas City, Mo., spoke pastoral efforts to combat AIPS
Topics addressed during the two-day symposium included the media's effect on AIDS; bridging the gap between religious dogma and pastoral care; AIDs education in the clinical schools; and AIDs教育; public health and civil liberties; and the economics and ethics of dealing with AIDS.
Several other topics related to AIDS were discussed.
Dennis Dailey, sociology professor at the University of Kansas, spoke on patterns of sexual behavior in the United States between 1981 and 1987.
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