Anger builds in Mexico 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.
Images of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died after being taken into police custody in Minneapolis, hang surrounded by roses on a security barrier outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, Saturday, May 30, 2020. A sign in Spanish reads: "Racism kills, here, there, and in the whole world," on the display put up by a group of Americans living in Mexico, along with other ex-pat and Mexican friends.
Authorities in the western state of Jalisco have said that López was detained May 4 in a town near the city of Guadalajara for a misdemeanor equivalent to disturbing the peace or resisting arrest. Jalisco state prosecutor Gerardo Solis said Thursday that the police officers had been placed under investigation.
But the federal Interior Department said in a statement that the tough anti-pandemic measures implemented by Alfaro in Jalisco, including detaining people for violating curfews or not wearing masks, contributed to the problem.
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