Police Violence Against Latinos: The Shocking Data We Now Know
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You wouldn't know it from the data, but Latinos are the second most likely demographic to be killed by law enforcement in the U.S, relative to their population. We only have these statistics now thanks to the work of La Raza Database Research Project, a group of volunteers in Southern California who are bringing awareness to systematic police violence against the Latino population. They estimate that almost 6,500 Latinos have been killed by police between 2000 and 2022 - but the data has been missing until this moment. In this unusual installment of our monthly "Meet the BIPOC Press" series, Laura and Senior Producer Jeremiah Cothren sit down with LF&F Social Justice Reporting Fellow, Roberto Camacho, who interviewed members of the Research Project to figure out why Latinos are so frequently misrepresented. Camacho also spoke with the mother and sister of Cesar Antonio Rodriguez, a young man tragically killed by the Long Beach Police Dept in 2017 and misidentified in police records. Camacho is a Chicano multimedia journalist focusing on criminal justice reform, immigration and Chicano/Latino issues. He originally reported on this story for Palabra. ". . . Racism and policing has almost always been viewed through a black and white binary, is very often viewed in very narrow terms. And in turn, the same goes for the Latino community. We are almost always viewed through the prism of immigration . . . We are seldom brought up in conversations involving policing and violence." - Roberto Camacho "Under a Trump administration, I'm not sure that there will be truth, justice or transparency, and especially not for people that are seen as savages or subhuman. But it is time for the community to organize and demand community oversight." - Ivette Xochiyotl Boyzo "There's no federal mandate or state mandate to do this, so if it's not there, they're not going to do it . . . They were individuals, they were journalists that took thi

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 147

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