From: Round Valley Community Support Coalition
Contact: Betty or Gary Ball, (707) 468-1660
"AMERICA'S MOST WANTED" UNFAIR TREATMENT OF COVELO TRAGEDY
America's Most Wanted television program was on location May 17 to film
a staged "re-enactment" of three tragic shootings on the Round Valley
Indian Reservation in Covelo, California, and the manhunt for "Bear"
Lincoln. The producers of America's Most Wanted have allegedly portrayed
this story exclusively from the Sheriff's Department perspective,
including the allegation that deputies shot Leonard "Acorn" Peters in
self defense, and that Deputy Bob Davis was then shot by unseen
"suspect" Bear Lincoln. The families of Bear Lincoln and Acorn Peters
have not been contacted by the producers for their perspective.
This is very disturbing, and will intensify the atrocities that have
been happening to the Round Valley Native American community in the name
of the manhunt for over a month. Combined with the just announced
$100,000 reward offered for arrest and conviction of the killer of
Deputy Davis, this national TV program may lead to vigilante actions and
false tips against innocent Native Americans in Northern California.
The America's Most Wanted episode is planned for broadcast Saturday, May 27.
What you can do:
Please call Fox television production headquarters for "America's Most
Wanted" in Washington, D.C., and protest their one-sided treatment.
Their phone number Is (202) 895-3100. Their fax number Is (202) 895-
3280, or 895-3096.
You may also call your local Fox Affiliate and voice your protest to
them. In the S. F. Bay Area and much of Northern California cable TV,
the Fox affiliate is KTVU Ch. 2, phone (510) 874-0242.
You may want to contact sponsors of the program to express your concern.
Feel free to call the RVCSC for further information, or if you would
like to further participate In halting this injustice.