20-year-old Austin Barron recently joined demonstrations against George Floyd's death, as he carried what he was referring to "as the full weight" that comes along with it along with being Latino.
A massive new mural honors Amilcar Lopez Perez, a Guatemalan immigrant teenager fatally shot by law enforcement officers in plainclothes on February 26, 2015.
While there is widespread agreement that race relations in the U.S. are in a sorry state, but racial division exists regarding race relations' contribution to police violence. Multicultural groups in the U.S. are far more skeptical than whites about law enforcement's efforts to control crime. Also, Democrats are more disposed to mistrust law enforcement.
Sandra Amezquita, a five-months pregnant Brooklyn woman, was grabbed by the arm and thrown to the pavement by a police officer at 2:15 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20 in Sunset Park; the event marking the continuation of police violence against non-whites and women with impunity.
Michael Brown, an unarmed teen shot down by police in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday, Aug. 9, appears to be explicit proof of the relentless and continual assault on men of color by police officers.
The term, "police brutality" was coined by the New York Times in 1893; yet, minorities victims have felt the blunt force of billy clubs, fists and guns much earlier than that.
