Police use tear gas to quell vigil for Latino teen

By Meredith Clark, MSNBC

A vigil for a teenage boy who died mysteriously in police custody erupted on Thursday night in Durham, NC.  Police in riot gear fired tear gas into a crowd filled with friends and family of 17-year-old Jesus Huerta, who was killed by a gunshotwound to the head while handcuffed from behind in the back of a Durham police patrol car on November 19.

According to a statement last week by Jose Lopez Sr., Durham’s police chief, the gunshot wound that killed Huerta was self-inflicted. Huerta is the third young man of color to die in a shooting that involved Durham police in the past four months.

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