Police-involved shootings of Latinos largely ignored by national media, activists say
By
Rebekah Sager
Published July 13, 2016
Fox News Latino
Despite the anger felt around the country over recent police shootings of African-Americans in a Minneapolis suburb and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the deaths of five Latinos in the last two weeks – also killed by police officers – have garnered little attention.
Melissa Ventura in Yuma, Arizona, Raul Saavedra-Vargas in Reno, Nevada, as well as three people in California – Anthony Nuñez in San Jose, Pedro Villanueva in Fullerton and Vinson Lee Ramos in Bell – were all shot and killed by police recently.
In Los Angeles County, data from the coroner’s office shows that Latinos, who make up roughly half of the area’s population, comprise more than half of those killed by cop