Injustice

HOUSTON (AP) — The last chance for the public to say goodbye to George Floyd drew thousands of mourners Monday to a church in Houston where he grew up, as his death two weeks ago continues to stoke protests in America and beyond over racial injustice, and spurred France to abruptly halt the use of police choke holds.

On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks with Damali Vidot, a Chelsea City Councilor and 2020 candidate for State Representative.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters are pushing to “defund the police” over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their chant has become a rallying cry and a stick for President Donald Trump to use on Democrats as he portrays them as soft on crime.

The Los Angeles protest was one of many that happened across the nation and the world. There was minimal police presence

The end of the racial state will be the end of the colonial state and the post-colonial criollo state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters streamed into the nation’s capital and other major cities Saturday in another huge mobilization against police brutality, while George Floyd was remembered in his North Carolina hometown by mourners who waited hours for a glimpse of his golden coffin.

All I can do right now is tell my own story, because I may not have been the victim of systemic racism, but I have been the beneficiary.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico arrested three police officers, including the commissioner, and took over their local police department Friday in connection with the alleged beating death of a man in police custody.

Amid a nationwide uprising as a result of nonstop police brutality, there is once again a concerted effort to silence dissent.

Law enforcement often touts tear gas as a non-lethal, crowd dispersal weapon, but it is actually a lot more dangerous than that.

It is time that we stand beside our Black friends, colleagues, and neighbors, and fight against systemic racism in the United States.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As protests rock the United States over allegations of police abuses, anger built in Mexico on Thursday over its own police brutality case: a young man allegedly beaten to death after officers detained him for not wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic.

La lucha por la justicia racial es lo que formará el lugar de los latinos en los Estados Unidos.

American property has more rights than American people, at least the people without property.

You do not get to comment on the current reactions you have created.

One man was the beloved owner of a Louisville barbecue restaurant who provided free meals to officers. Another was a man known as “Mr. Indianapolis,” a former star football player. Yet another was a federal officer working security during a protest.

The burning question is how to congeal these distinct Latino sectors into a social and labor movement that could fight for justice in our communities and show solidarity with the black movement amid the pandemic.

Both men call out, cry into the same America, one in the darkness, one in the light.

It’s been a week since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wielding extraordinary federal authority, President Donald Trump threatened the nation’s governors on Monday that he would deploy the military to states if they did not stamp out violent protests over police brutality that have roiled the nation over the past week. His announcement came as police under federal command forced back peaceful demonstrators with tear gas so he could walk to a nearby church and pose with a Bible.

Tensions are still high in Atlanta, but maybe some of those tensions could have been avoided.