[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 206 (Tuesday, November 30, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1287]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                       REMEMBERING KEVIN NISHITA

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                           HON. ERIC SWALWELL

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 30, 2021

  Mr. SWALWELL. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize Kevin Fumito 
Nishita, a retired San Francisco Bay Area police officer who was 
murdered in a senseless act of gun violence while working as a security 
guard for a television crew in Oakland, CA.
  Kevin's death has devastated not only his family and friends, but 
also the Bay Area's law enforcement and journalism communities, which 
had come to know him as an energetic, professional protector and a 
supportive friend. He died protecting practitioners of one of our 
nation's most sacred rights: the freedom of the press.
  Kevin served as an officer with the Oakland Housing Authority Police 
Department and the Hayward Police Department before joining the San 
Jose Police Department in 2001. There, he worked as a Gang 
Investigations detective as well as working the Gaming/Vice Unit. In 
addition to his police assignments, Kevin also spent some time 
representing his peers as a director with the San Jose Police Officers 
Association.
  He then joined the Colma Police Department in 2012, serving as a 
Detective, Field Training Officer, and Officer in Charge before being 
promoted to Sergeant in 2015 and retiring in 2018. Since early 2020, 
Kevin worked with the Star Protection Agency, often accompanying 
personnel from various Bay Area television stations into unsafe areas.
  He was protecting a KRON4 news crew in downtown Oakland at midday on 
Nov. 24 when a group of men attempted to rob the crew of its camera. 
Kevin intervened and was shot; he succumbed to his injuries three days 
later.
  He is survived by his wife, Virginia Nishita; his mother, Mary Yukiko 
Nishita; his father, Dan Fumito Nishita; his stepson, Enrique Ramiro 
Serrano; his daughter-in-law, Elaine Hebron Edjan; his daughter, 
Maureen Campos; his son-in-law, Marlowe Campos; and his grandsons, 
Titus Mackoa Campos, Kahuna Cudi Campos, and Dash Wilfred Campos.
  Colleagues remember Kevin by nicknames including ``Turbo'' and 
``Stitch,'' after the animated character, for his high-energy, always-
moving persona. His family says he was an extremely hard worker who 
never asked for anything in return, who opened his home to so many 
people who needed help, a man of deep compassion.
  Kevin Nishita's death should be a wake-up call that gun violence is a 
scourge upon our communities that must be addressed and stopped, His 
life should be remembered as a celebration of public service and 
fellowship, a model for all who knew and loved him. I offer his family, 
friends, and colleagues my deepest condolences on this terrible loss.

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