Indigenous activists demand investigation into police shooting of Zapotec teen with BB gun

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The teen may not have understood the police's Spanish and English commands when officers in Salinas City, California shot and killed him.

investigate the July 16 shooting death of Gerardo Chávez Martínez, a 19-year-old Zapotec. The Zapotecs are one of Mexico's indigenous groups.

On July 16 at 8:01 p.m. local time, Salinas City police received a call from a neighbor who said that Martínez had pointed a gun at him. The neighbor said the gun might be a BB gun, but added that it could also be a small-caliber pistol, the police department said in a statement.

 

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