You don’t hear much about Latino victims of police violence. That could change soon.

*It depends on where you’re listening. We’ve read and posted many stories about recent Latino victims of police violence – Jessica Hernandez, Antonio Zambrano-Montes, Ruben García Villalpando. But we’ve also read and posted stories about how the Latino victims don’t recceive the wide-spread publicity and awareness of other headline-grabbing incidents of police violence. This piece begins to explain why to a larger audience. VL

By Jenée Desmond-Harris, Vox

1. Civil rights groups and immigrants rights groups are working together to expand the renewed national focus on police violence against unarmed African Americans to include killings of Latinos — especially immigrants.
2. “Just as people have stood up around the nation to demand accountability for the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tony Robinson and Walter Scott — we too now stand to call for systemic change to protect the rights and safety of our first- and second-generation immigrant brothers and sisters,” a coalition of organizations led by the Advancement Project wrote in a Wednesday press release.
3. The activists listed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez of Denver, Colorado, Antonio Zambrano-Montes, 35, of Pasco, Washington, and 31-year-old Ruben García Villalpando of Grapevine, Texas, as examples of unarmed Hispanic Americans who have been killed by police in recent months.

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