Latino rights groups angered by news headline

*This speaks directly to the Latino narrative, and the need for Latinos to own their own story. It borders on pathetic that we still have to explain that Latinos are of many races, sizes and skin tones.  The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium is taking the story back, one headline at a time. VL

By Christian de la Rosa, Fox5SanDiego

SAN DIEGO — Latino rights groups are criticizing  a headline and suspect description used in a story on a San Diego news website.

The story was about a shooting reported earlier this week in which a Spring Valley man was shot while driving his pickup on Interstate 8 in El Cajon. A woman passenger in the pickup was not injured. The headline that Patch.com used for the article was “Latinos Shoot at Lemon Grove Woman in Pickup Truck.”

The description of the suspects in the shooting provided by police was “Latino males in their 20s.” Critics say that description is too broad to be useful and gives the impression that every Latino man between 20 and 29 years old is a possible suspect.

“Should people be worried that I’m walking around with my kids in the park because we’re Latinos,” said Pedro Rios with the San Diego Immigrants Rights Consortium. “It causes an over-generalization that uses stereotypes by suggesting that all Latinos are out there shooting at people.”

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