Latinos denounce police violence as they protest George Floyd's death. 'You don’t need to be black to see how horrible it is,” a protester who is the son of Mexican immigrants says, “With more police accountability, that will help us, too.” - NBCLatino
Laws like SB4 are seen as adding to the tension and problems between police and minority communities.
At the same time, García reiterated the need to enact legislation introduced by Democratic colleagues against police chokeholds, the use of secretive internal reviews of police misconduct and an end to qualified immunity for police, which means they can't be sued in a court of law. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, an associate professor of Mexican American studies at the University of Arizona, told NBC News there is a serious undercount of Latinos who have been victims of police violence because many police departments register Latino victims as white or unknown. He has culled such categories and found Latino victims.
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