VivirLatino

All to often in the mainstream media, the issue of police brutality is painted as a black and white issue when in reality it is an issue impacting all people of color. The most recent highly publicized police killing of Sean Bell in Queens, NYC last November has long time police brutality activists and communities of color across the city organizing and calling out a pattern and practice of racially based police killings.

The recent indictments against three of the five officers who fired 50 shots at Bell on the eve of his wedding have left some in the Latino community justifiably unsatisfied. Some showed their dissatisfaction by committing and act of civil disobedience by blocking the entrance to the Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens.

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