The fatal police shooting in Salinas of a Zapotec man who was holding a BB gun has Indigenous advocacy groups concerned that language barriers were a factor in the encounter.
After the killing last week of an Indigenous Mexican teen by police in Salinas, advocacy groups are concerned that language barriers may have played a role in the fatal encounter.
In minutes, officers were at the scene. The officer who ultimately shot Martinez positioned himself with a rifle behind his patrol car, about 50 feet from Martinez’s home, according to the district attorney’s office. Officers unsuccessfully tried to determine Martinez’s phone number.When Martinez partly exited a side door of his home, officers ordered him in Spanish to come out with his hands up, the D.A. account said. Instead, according to the D.A.
District attorney’s officials said police recovered a “real-looking” BB gun next to Martinez. They added that the state Department of Justice, which isfatal police shootings of unarmed civilians, declined to investigate because it considered Martinez to have been armed. “As a monolingual Zapoteco speaker, he did not understand the commands to come out of his home and to raise his arms,” they said.
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