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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 09:06 PM Jan 2015

Mexican town's entire police force detained over journalist disappearance

Source: The Guardian

State prosecutors have detained a town’s entire police force following the disappearance of a journalist in the southern state of Veracruz.

Thirty-six members of the Medellín de Bravo police department were brought in to give statements, according to a statement from the Veracruz state prosecutor’s office. Authorities detained three police officers there on Monday.

Prosecutors said the investigation is in an advanced stage and one of the lines of investigation is looking at the social activism of journalist Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, some of which was aimed at Medellín’s mayor, Omar Cruz.

Sánchez’s brother Juan Carlos Sánchez said on Monday that his brother had been threatened by Cruz. Cruz denied any involvement at a news conference on Monday. A group of nine armed men took Sánchez from his home on Friday along with his computer, camera and telephones.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/mexican-police-force-detained-journalist-disappearance

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Mexican town's entire police force detained over journalist disappearance (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2015 OP
But I thought the police christx30 Jan 2015 #1
From what I can tell, there has been little prosecution JimDandy Jan 2015 #2
Nah, folks aren't disappeared in the U.S. Trillo Jan 2015 #3
Legislatures invent defenses for pompous asses who feel the need to murder folks they don't like. Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #4

christx30

(6,241 posts)
1. But I thought the police
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 09:09 PM
Jan 2015

were immune from any kind of prosecution? That's the lesson I got from the US.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
2. From what I can tell, there has been little prosecution
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 09:31 PM
Jan 2015

(or any other actions of consequence) of what truly can be termed criminal police gangs in Mexico... until recently. Now we have to catch up with you, as far as prosecutions of reprehensible police actions go, but I must say, I haven't heard of US police disappearing people like what has been happening in Mexico. Very scary stories we're hearing from down there.

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
3. Nah, folks aren't disappeared in the U.S.
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 01:04 AM
Jan 2015

They're simply shot and killed and it's plastered all over the news. Right out in the open. There's always a "reasonable" justification, and if it doesn't stick, then the story changes a little and multiple justifications are offered.

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
4. Legislatures invent defenses for pompous asses who feel the need to murder folks they don't like.
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 03:07 AM
Jan 2015

At the same time, they claim to worship "law" and order. Their sympathetic legislators change inconvenient laws to suit them.

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