Royce Esters

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  In response, community organizations will join with local residents, members of law enforcement and government officials for a May 12 town hall at the Martin Luther King Transit Center located at 310 N. Willowbrook Ave. to discuss the violence, according to Royce Esters of the National Association for Equal Justice in America.

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  "We want the gangs out but we want [police] to be careful who they are arresting," said Royce Esters, president of the National Association for Equal Justice in America.

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  "We've got to stop playing with these people and get them off the street," said Royce Esters, president of the civil rights group National Association for Equal Justice."They're killing our sons and daughters."
  
  Capt. Eric Hamilton, who heads the Compton sheriff's station, said he's open to more partnerships with outside law enforcement agencies, which Esters called for.But the ultimate solution to the crime problem lies with local residents, he said.
  
  "What are you going to do?"he told the audience.

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  Published on: 8/20/2004    Last Visited: 2/13/2005  

  They can still do cronyism or nepotism," said Royce Esters, president of the National Association for Equal Justice in America.Esters said members of the union had called on his civil rights group to monitor the drawing.

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  "They can still go in the back door, they can still do cronyism or nepotism," said Royce Esters, president of the National Association for Equal Justice in America.Esters said individual members of the union had called on his civil rights group to monitor the drawing.

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  Published on: 7/5/2006    Last Visited: 7/6/2006  

  I knew this has been coming for quite a while," said Royce Esters of the arrests.Esters is a long-time Compton resident and president of the civil rights organization, National Association for Equal Justice in America."The problem is that we have to introduce whoever is going to be on the city council in Compton or any city in America to ‘we' and not ‘I.' Without leadership, without involving the city, this is what happens.When you're interested in yourself instead of the city, this is what happens," said Esters, who has lived in the community since 1956 and at one time was president of the NAACP and the Compton Crime Commission.

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  Civil rights group wants gang cleanup - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/26/2005    Last Visited: 8/27/2005  

  Royce Esters, president of the National Association for Equal Justice in America and a past president of the NAACP, said that officials must stop "playing" with gang members and crack down on them for the sake of the public's civil rights to live safely.
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  Esters said."We need the federal government to come in and treat them just like Al Capone.They need to come in here and clean up these gangs throughout America or no one is going to be safe."
  
  The tough talk and demand for federal action is a response to more than 50 murders in Compton this year, as well as an increase in homicides in other areas of the county.
  
  Esters said he has invited guests from the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; California Highway Patrol; Carson sheriff's station; and a representative from U.S. Sen.
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  Esters said the public will have a chance to question the representatives and demand action.He said he is tired of seeing nothing happen following other town hall meetings called after an outbreak of violence or police brutality.
  
  "The community has to be outraged about this stuff," Esters said "We are outraged when they have police brutality, but we are not outraged when the gangs are killing people."
  
  Esters said police need to take a new tactic with gangs.In Compton, he said, 1 percent of the population -- the gangs -- control the other 99 percent of the people, violating their civil rights.
  
  He suggested authorities use civil rights laws that battle hate organizations against the gangs, and the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which has been used to battle the key mafia gangsters by prosecuting them as involved in criminal organizations.
  
  Esters said gangs should be treated like criminal organizations, and said officers should stop trying to cooperate with them on the street.
  
  "I think we play with these people too much," he said.

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  Deputies who accidentally shot roofer thought he was a... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/2/2004    Last Visited: 4/2/2004  

  Civil rights activist Royce Esters of the National Association for Equal Justice in America said Thursday he was extremely concerned about the shooting and will meet Monday with Sheriff's Department attorneys to discuss it.
  
  "We are going to investigate and we are going to bring in the U.S. Justice Department," Esters said.

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  I knew this has been coming for quite a while," said Royce Esters of the arrests.Esters is a long-time Compton resident and president of the civil rights organization, National Association for Equal Justice in America.
  
  "The problem is that we have to introduce whoever is going to be on the city council in Compton or any city in America to ‘we' and not ‘I.' Without leadership, without involving the city, this is what happens.
  
  When you're interested in yourself instead of the city, this is what happens," said Esters, who has lived in the community since 1956 and at one time was president of the NAACP and the Compton Crime Commission.

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  "These gangs are your local community terrorists," said Royce Esters, a Compton resident and president of the civil rights group National Assn. for Equal Justice in America."When they had the Ku Klux Klan, they brought the federal government in."
  
  Esters said he sees deputies patrolling in their cars but rarely getting out to talk to residents.Like others who have watched with alarm as more and more people have been killed this year, he said his area needs more homicide detectives.

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