A woman’s death in Mexico fueled outrage. Can it fuel police reform?
While the United States is focused on the Derek Chauvin trail, a reckoning with an eerily similar encounter is unfolding in Mexico.
On March 27, Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza was killed outside a convenience store in Tulum, when a police officer knelt on her back to restrain her, breaking her neck. The encounter between Ms. Salazar, a Salvadoran living in Mexico on a humanitarian visa, and four police officers was videotaped by a bystander. Her death sparked nationwide protests – and has drawn international attention to police violence in a country that spent nearly a decade reforming its justice system, including the police.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was quick to condemn the event as murder, and the officers
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