Jayvon Givan’s family accuses Albuquerque police of cover-up

There’s been a disturbing sequence of Black individuals being discovered hanged over the previous a number of years, and regardless of the determined pleas from the households and the group, too many of those inexplicable circumstances are categorised as suicide, even within the face of suspicious circumstances.

Sadly, a 29-year-old named Jayvon Givan is one other identify added to that heartbreaking record. On September 17, 2024, Givan was discovered hanging from a pillar by a metallic chain at an workplace constructing in Corrales, New Mexico. In keeping with the Kansas Metropolis Defender, the Albuquerque Police Division dominated his loss of life a suicide and had his physique cremated 384 days earlier than they contacted his household. It wasn’t till his cousin Jada Walker filed a lacking individuals report that she was advised about Givan’s loss of life in a 2-page police report detailing what was discovered on the scene and a overview of the discarding of his stays.

“Once I say he cherished life, he cherished life,” Walker mentioned, her voice agency with certainty. “That isn’t a suicidal particular person. Nothing about him comes throughout suicidal. It’s elevating crimson flags with all our members of the family as a result of we all know who he’s.”

Walker additionally says that on August 28, 2024, Gavin reached out to many alternative members of the family asking for cash.

Greater than 20 individuals mentioned that Jayvon contacted them on August 28, 2024. All people mentioned the identical factor. It appeared like he was operating from one thing.”

She continued:

“Once I say he cherished life, he cherished life,” Walker mentioned, her voice agency with certainty. “That isn’t a suicidal particular person. Nothing about him comes throughout suicidal. It’s elevating crimson flags with all our members of the family as a result of we all know who he’s.”

Walker says that primarily based on the police report, there was little to no effort made to contact them by any means. She, the household, and the activist group contend that APD basically “hid” this loss of life described as a lynching. Native organizers together with Constructing Energy for Black New Mexico, Hundreds of thousands for Prisoners New Mexico, Albuquerque Save the Youngsters, and the SouthWest Solidarity Community launched the next assertion completely to The Defender:

“This division hid the lynching of a Black man for over a yr, and had the audacity to label it a ‘suicide.’ We reject that narrative outright,” the assertion reads. “Black individuals don’t dangle themselves in public in America. We all know this as a result of the historical past is written in blood. From Reconstruction to Jim Crow to proper now, police and coroners have coated up racial terror by calling it ‘self-inflicted.’ These will not be remoted incidents, they’re continuations of state-sanctioned violence.”

We are going to proceed to replace this story as extra data turns into accessible.