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LAPD Officers Shoot and Kill Unarmed #RubenHerrera in Hospital Room
Torrance, CA — Ruben Jose Herrera, 26, whose mother says is bipolar, was killed Saturday afternoon by LAPD officers in his hospital room after a violent arrest.
On Saturday, police responded to a call of a man throwing bottles and fighting with neighbors at an apartment complex off West 207th street. When officers arrived, they found Herrera, whose mother and another witness say was not the man throwing bottles.
His mother, Graciela Herrera, and a neighbor stated Ruben Herrera was fixing a flat tire on a bike when officers approached.
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#SayHisName #RubenHerrera #LatinosAreHuman #DisarmCops
When the Border Patrol kills Mexican teens
In the last five years, three Mexican teenagers have been shot dead by Border Patrol agents
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Threats, harassment, vandalism at mosques reach record – CNN.com
(CNN)Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland and Virginia.
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Update-Andy Lopez case: exclusive interview with Attorney Arnoldo Casillas
Andy Lopez case: exclusive interview with Attorney Arnoldo Casillas, representing the Lopez family, hearing took place in U.S. District Court Dec. 9th, 2015 in Oakland. Interview by Francisco Lozano. Video Copyrights Francisco Lozano/KBBF 89.1 fm.
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State employee investigated after allegedly hitting, throwing coffee on praying Muslim man
State employee investigated after allegedly hitting, throwing coffee on praying Muslim man
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Sadistic Cop on Trial for Tasering Unresponsive Native Man 17 Times Until Bystanders Made Her Stop
Rapid City, SD – In August of 2014, Rebecca M. Sotherland, a police officer formerly employed for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, was videotaped tazering a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe 17 times while he laid unresponsive on the ground on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Sotherland was indicted by a federal grand jury only days…
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Arkansas Officer Shot Self, Blamed it on Imaginary ‘Hispanic Man’
David Houser admitted to fabricating a story when he blamed a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a Latino man, prompting a manhunt.
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