Hispanic Lawmakers Imply Racial Motivations for Shooting in South Phoenix
Arizona Capitol Times › October 15, 2010
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Hispanic lawmakers stopped short of saying there was a racial undercurrent in the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in South Phoenix last week, but they demanded that the Phoenix Police Department ramp up its cultural sensitivity training for officers.
Rep. Ben Miranda, a Democrat who represents south Phoenix, compared the shooting to the kind of incidents that occurred in the South during the civil rights era.See the full content of this document
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Hispanic Lawmakers Imply Racial Motivations for Shooting in South Phoenix
"In my opinion, we'd have to go back to the 1960s in the South to see something that compares to the situation at hand," he sa...
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