Edward Rivera, a noted Sacramento painter and leader in the Chicano art movement who was a police officer for almost 30 years, died Oct. 31 of liver disease, his family said. He was 68.
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Edward Rivera is shown with his mural on Lassen Hall at CSUS in 1998 before doing some touch-up work. The mural was mistakenly torn down in 1976; he re-created it and it was rededicated in 1978.