I know that Mexico isn't as relevant in terms of racism as the usa so I understand if almost none of you have heard what's happening on México right now.
Hundreds of people went out to the streets to claim justice for Giovanni Lopez brutally murdered at the hands of the police officers on the fourth of May in a municipality of the state of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Giovanni a 30 year old bricklayer got arrested by police officers for not wearing a mask while dinning out with his family , he was then beaten and taken then into custody.
Giovanni Lopez's family would find him the next day at the hospital, dead and with a shot in his leg and severe head trauma y because by the words of the hospital ''the police got carried away''.
His brother Christian says that his brother Giovanni, their aunt and himself were heading out of dinner when the police started to attack them, Giovanni’s brother and his aunt managed to escape but Giovanni didn’t, his last words were recorded on tape saying ''Don't do anything to me!'.
The municipality's president Eduardo Cervantes Aguilar through a third party tried to bribe Giovanni's aunt by offering 200 thousand pesos (9,159.77 dollars) he also threatened to murder them if they made the tape public.
Enrique Alfaro the president of the state of Jalisco commented about the protest on twitter @EnriqueAlfaroR ''I'm sure they wanted us to get hooked and that we turned to be violent, today we acted with dignity and we'll keep doing it'' he also said that Giovanni wasn't arrested for not wearing a face mask but for being violent
Sadly Giovanni's case wasn't a isolated event in México, the murder of Oliver López joins the list, this time in a state closer to the border, the date was 29 of March, Oliver Lopez was arrested and murdered on broad daylight in the state of Tijuana by the police, in a way too similar to George Flloyd's case, tackled and chocked to death by the officer's boot on his neck.
The response of the police was to remark that Oliver was under the effects of some kind of drug and was throwing rocks to the passbyers while his family insists that Mr. Lopez didn't resist to the arrest in any way.
Today we join Oliver and Giovanni's families in their claim of justice and remember that they didn't die they were murdered.
If you can please reblog this post or if you will tweet with the hashtags #JusticiaParaOliverLopez #JusticiaParaGiovanni
Don't let their names be forgotten.