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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Fury in Mexico After Video Captures Woman’s Death in Police Custody

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The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) has launched an investigation into the death of a woman on Saturday afternoon in the municipality of Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

The death of a woman pinned to the ground by police in the Caribbean beach resort of Tulum has sparked a national outcry after video on social media showed the officers standing around her body before loading her onto a patrol truck.

A spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s office of the state of Quintana Roo said four police officers at the scene - three men and a woman - were under investigation for their probable involvement in the Saturday evening incident. They said fingerprints and forensic evidence were being examined in the case.

A video published by news site Noticaribe showed the woman squirming and crying out as she lay face down on a road with a policewoman kneeling on her back with male officers standing by. The video then cuts to show the woman’s prone, handcuffed body lying on the road. Officers are later seen moving the limp, shoeless body into the back of a truck.

“There will be no impunity for those who participated in the death of the victim, and all the force of the law will be brought to bear to bring those responsible to trial,” the office said in a statement.

The footage has shocked a nation that is currently rocked by demonstrations about its record of violence against women: official government figures suggest at least 939 women were murdered in 2020.

Video of the incident, as presented by Grupo Reforma

The National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence Against Women (CONAVIM) condemned the Tulum incident on Twitter and said it was in communication with authorities to ensure that “those responsible were punished, justice is done, and nobody commits crime with impunity”.

The incident was described as “police abuse” on Twitter by Mexico’s deputy interior minister responsible for human rights, Alejandro Encinas.

Mexicans have already noted the similarity to the case of George Floyd, the black American man whose death in May, as a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck, sparked racial justice protests in the United States and around the world.

The trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck, began on Monday.

Victim
Her name was Victoria Esperanza Salazar, 36-year-old woman from Sonsonate, El Salvador, who was living in Mexico under a humanitarian and/or refugee visa. She worked as a cleaner in Tulum's hotel area.

Her mother said that Victoria left El Salvador for a number of reasons, including gang violence, the lack of employment opportunities, and low salaries. She is survived by her two children, ages 15 and 16.

#JusticiaParaVictoria (Justice for Victoria) is a trending topic in Mexico.

An autopsy concluded that Victoria died from a broken neck. The examination found “a fracture of part of the upper spinal column produced by the rupture of the first and second vertebra which caused the loss of the victim,” Quintana Roo State Prosecutor Oscar Montes de Oca said in a video.

The injuries were “compatible and coincide with submission manoeuvres applied to the victim during her detention” and demonstrate a “disproportionate” use of force. He said his office was preparing femicide charges against the four police officers.

The Governor of Quintana Roo confirmed that the officers involved in the killing had been removed from their posts and are pending an investigation.

Reactions
By Monday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had both voiced their condemnation of the incident.

Lopez Obrador said the woman had been “brutally treated” and the case caused Mexico “shame, pain, and embarrassment,” before vowing that justice would be served. Bukele tweeted that “criminals in the police of Tulum” had committed the murder and that he wanted to see “the full weight of the law” brought against them.

The case offers a rare example of Latin American leaders quickly breaking rank with police forces to condemn their actions before an investigation is completed.

27 comments:

  1. With all the bullshit going on and the odd unexplained little details.....

    This must be a false flag with paid actors just like all other false flags.

    It's hard to figure out what is real and what isn't at this point lol

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    1. Nah it’s called police kneeling on people’s necks. Who knew that someone kneeling all of their body weight onto a small area of the back of the neck could cause neck fractures?!?

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    2. Especially a females neck,much more delicate to force like that,fuckin animals

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  2. Wait a sec, you’re telling me Mexican cops are murderers and on the take?? No way

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  3. What was she doing wrong? They could have used mace. I am sure the police will cover it up and say she was on drugs.

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    1. I could tell u one thing she was doing wrong she was not in her native country

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    2. 1:28 of course we know that, she had a work visa, and was working as a cleaner to support 2 kids, nevertheless, there was no future in her native country, no jobs, she picked Mexico and got a job, but then again Mexico vis dangerous, they kidnapped and kill people if they have no random money.

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    3. There is more to the story. Just choke a lady for the fun of it.

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    4. Police officers practicing their abuse tactics, looks like Chauvin's Revenge...
      George Floyd partisans may not act up their outrage, but remember Bloody Sunday, when Elite British paramilitary murdered about 2 dozen irish separatistas?, they just shoot 'em up, no personal contact there, as i says, happens on the best countries

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    5. "Elite British paramilitary"
      The I Run Away blow pregnant women up,snipe soldiers and run away,kneecap teenagers for bullshit,because they used to run the drug dealing,fuckin idiot talking out your arse as usual.
      All you know about Bloody Sunday is what you read and and spew out in your hate filled posts on BB,fuckin weirdo

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    6. A lonely bitter hater

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  4. Off topic FYI - video story on big meth bust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Q7rwzIRaI

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    1. That's from October 2020. I saw in the forum that Parro posted about a big meth bust in Laredo. Is that the one you're referring to?

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  5. Femicide is a real problem.

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    1. More men are killed.

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    2. That's true. Violence and murder don't discriminate in Mexico. I'll say this, there's lots of subhuman scumbag men that wouldn't think twice to kill women for whatever reason, refuse their advances, leave said person or just do it for the sport of it.

      I believe it's a cultural problem, with many men coming from broken homes and not taught how to treat women properly.
      The macho culture doesn't help either.

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    3. 11:39 murder and mayhem are problems in México, too much violence, but when you piss out of the chamberpot, blaming cultural BS you dug outta your own ass, you should remember we did not have problems like that until the US created their War ON Drugs to help their favorite Corporate Capitalist Welfare Queens steal billions of dollars from the US Taxpayer...

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    4. 603
      Go refresh the page to answer your own posts,what are you some fat ugly bitch who hates men?The shit you come out with on here,never ending.What a lovely person you must be

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  6. So Sorry ALMO says Its a embaressment yea so are your drug cartels and everything else in Mexico

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    1. 1:58 your ignorant pedorro stinks and embarrasses us.

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  7. SJWs: "Oh my God we have to do something. The mexican cops are bad. We have to get angry and demand change."

    Me: "What about the daily atrocities committed by the DTOs?"

    SJWs: What about them?

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    1. 6:55 "DTOs" do not represent Law and Order, cuicos do...
      Police brutality does not have a reason to exist, but sure does have a lot of excuses, enablers, practitioners, and apologyzers, even coons like sheriff David Clarke, aka Uncle Ruckus, the one democrat tromp likes...

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    2. millies on a roll hysterically answering every post with anti US shite

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  8. Meanwhile....... tens of thousands of Mexicans and Migrants have disappeared, and thousands of others extorted or decapitated

    That’s the real news, not Victoria Floyd.

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    1. George Floyd IS News, and everything around the case is too...
      Try and push for better police training and save the whine for mass or some other shit that does not cost taxpayers 27 million dollars and the defense of a murdering "cop"

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    2. @8:34
      I see who you wish to emulate.
      Media made Floyd news.
      Where else will a thug be given what looked like a State Funeral 😂
      Your Hero G. Floyd killed himself by being all drugged up. The cop is innocent.

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  9. Manic Millie answered every post on this page.
    How fucked up is that?

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