Violence

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Victims in Thousands of Potential Hate Crimes Never Notify Police

NewsTaco June 29, 2017

By Joe Sexton, ProPublica (3 minute read)   More than half of the people who said they were the victim of a hate crime in recent years did not report […]

Day Laborers Have Become an Easy Target for Anti-Immigrant Vigilantes

NewsTaco January 18, 2017

When Hispanic Teens Vanished, Did New York Police Do Enough?

NewsTaco October 27, 2016

Central American gang’s tentacles reach deep into Texas

NewsTaco October 19, 2016

*This is a very good, very scary read. VL By Julián Aguilar, Texas Tribune (7 minute read) HOUSTON — It’s the savagery that most bothers veteran police officer George Rhyne. […]

Latinos In Los Angeles Unite After Police Fatally Shoot 14-Year-Old Boy

NewsTaco August 12, 2016

*This happened, Wednesday. VL By Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed Across the street from a Walgreens near a bust intersection in Boyle Heights, Estela Rodriguez flipped through pictures of her dead son […]

Family Of Latino Teen Killed By Undercover Cops Will Sue

NewsTaco July 20, 2016

*This case has been obscured by cribbed speeches and political circuses. Nineteen year-old Pedro Villanueva was shot and killed by undercover California Highway Patrol officers. The police shooting happened when […]

The Other Group of People Getting Killed by Police That We Can’t Ignore

NewsTaco July 14, 2016

*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 […]