The Other Group of People Getting Killed by Police That We Can’t Ignore
*A list of the 5 Latinos killed by police in the same time that Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were killed. The question isn’t to pit black against brown, it’s to ask why does the media ignore this? VL
By Danielle DeCourcey, attn.com
There were five other people killed by police last week, but you probably don’t know their names. Between July 3 and July 9, five Latinos were shot and killed in the U.S. by police, according to TeleSUR, a public news outlet sponsored by various Latin American governments. The incidents happened during the same week as the high-profile deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both black men.
Here are the five Latinos killed by police last week:
1. Vinson Lee Ramos
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