Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city and the capital of the state of Jalisco, has been rocked by violent demonstrations protesting police brutality. On Thursday, police cars were set on fire and the government palace was vandalized . Police responded with tear gas and by beating the demonstrators with batons. Six policemen were injured.
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The unrest was the result of images on social media of a young construction worker by the name of Giovanni López being hauled away by police armed with assault rifles, supposedly for not wearing a protective face mask in public. The governor of the state says that was not the reason for the arrest, and the police say that he resisted arrest. When family members went to the police station to look for him. They were sent to a local hospital. There they found him dead. The cause of death was blunt trauma to the head.
The federal Ministry of Human Right has asked to investigate the files from the case, as well as those of a similar case in the state of Baja California which occurred in February.
Sadly, police corruption and brutality are commonplace in Mexico.
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