MEXICO Town – Outrage grew in Mexico and El Salvador as Mexican authorities mentioned Monday that an autopsy of a Salvadoran lady who died in police custody confirmed that law enforcement broke her neck.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador flatly reported that Victoria Esperanza Salazar was murdered by law enforcement in the Caribbean vacation resort of Tulum.
Victoria Esperanza Salazar permit out a scream Saturday afternoon as a woman law enforcement officer knelt on her back to cuff her arms powering her. Salazar was facial area down on the street and barefoot. Her feet flailed. A pair persons handed little by little by on a bicycle. There were being foods stands a number of yards away.
Clips of online video cobbled jointly give no perception of how much time elapsed. Then three other officers are seen standing all-around her motionless entire body however facedown, chatting casually. Later on, three officers carry her however handcuffed body into the again of a police pickup truck and travel away.
Movie circulating on social media does not present gatherings in advance of Salazar was facial area down on the road with the officer on top of her.
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An autopsy concluded that Salazar died from a damaged neck. The examination discovered, “a fracture of aspect of the upper spinal column made by the rupture of the initial and second vertebra which brought about the reduction of the victim,” Quintana Roo State Prosecutor Oscar Montes de Oca mentioned in a online video.
The accidents were being “compatible y coincide with submission maneuvers applied to the victim through her detention” and demonstrate a “disproportionate” use of power. He said his business was getting ready femicide fees from the four law enforcement officers.
Salazar experienced been living in Mexico for some a long time on a “humanitarian visa,” El Salvador President Nayib Bukele explained. “She was brutally murdered by Tulum law enforcement officers in Quintana Roo, Mexico,” the president wrote. He said the government would help Salazar’s two daughters.
“I see hundreds of outraged Mexicans, demanding justice for our compatriot,” Bukele claimed. “They are as outraged as we are. Let us not overlook that it was not the Mexican individuals who dedicated this crime, but rather some criminals in the Tulum police.”
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López Obrador swore Monday that those liable would be punished.
“She was brutally taken care of and murdered,” López Obrador mentioned. “It is an celebration that fills us with suffering and shame.”
On Monday, a compact potted plant and a couple candles sat outdoors the ease retailer wherever Salazar was killed. Someone wrote “Here they killed Victoria” in substantial purple letters on the pavement.
Salazar still left Sonsonate, about an hour west of San Salvador, five several years back to appear for much better chances and escape the area’s road violence, said her mother Rosibel Emerita Arriaza. She was a solitary mom of two daughters.
She still left her daughters with her spouse and children and manufactured her way to Mexico. In the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, close to the Guatemala border, Salazar asked for and been given refugee status. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute confirmed that Monday.
The moment she experienced lawful position she moved to the beach front vacation resort city of Tulum on Mexico’s Caribbean coastline. A more peaceful alternate to Cancun and Playa del Carmen, Tulum experienced drawn crowds and was having difficulties with quick growth. Salazar located work cleansing in resorts and introduced her daughters, ages 16 and 15, to be with her.
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On Monday, Arriaza was working with Salvadoran authorities on having her daughter’s overall body repatriated. She also planned to travel to Mexico to be reunited with her granddaughters
“I want justice for my daughter, for the reason that it is not fair what they did to her,” Arriaza mentioned. “She was a woman who was not armed, just for becoming a female and I really don’t know what happened.”
Subsequent the autopsy success, Quintana Roo point out protection main Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez stated that in addition to the 4 law enforcement officers included in the functions, Tulum’s law enforcement main was also fired Monday.
He termed the video clip of the killing “shameful and conclusive.”
Tulum Mayor Victor Mas Tah claimed “I have an understanding of and share the outrage and suffering of all of society.” He said the previous law enforcement officers would be jailed in the coming hrs.
Manuel Barradas, proprietor of a small benefit store, mentioned Salazar appeared “off” to him so when she approached his retail outlet he barred her entry. Authorities produced no mention of Salazar being below the influence of anything at all in talking about the autopsy. Police detained her a quick time later on.
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Protest marches ended up scheduled for later Monday in Tulum, Mexico City and San Salvador.
The scenes were being reminiscent of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. Floyd was declared dead immediately after a white law enforcement officer pressed his knee from the Black man’s neck for about 9 minutes, holding his place even just after Floyd went limp.
Floyd’s death was captured on extensively seen bystander video clip and sparked occasionally violent protests in Minneapolis and beyond, top to a nationwide reckoning on race. The demo for that officer started Monday in Minneapolis.
The Quintana Roo prosecutor’s workplace stated four Tulum law enforcement officers — a few adult males and one particular girl — were being under investigation for their possible involvement in the Saturday evening incident. They stated fingerprints and forensic proof have been currently being examined in the situation.
“There will be no impunity for those who participated in the loss of life of the sufferer, and all the drive of the regulation will be introduced to bear to bring those people responsible to trial,” the office mentioned in a assertion.
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The woman’s dying seemed most likely to ignite tensions in Quintana Roo, where police employed reside ammunition to ward off a throng of about 100 demonstrators in Cancun in November.
The protesters have been demonstrating in opposition to the killings of gals and some smashed windows and burned paperwork exterior the city corridor, even though other individuals experimented with to tear down a plywood barrier at an entrance.
Police fired into the air, but people were being injured when protesters rushed to escape as the photographs rang out. The state’s governor condemned the use of pressure and the state law enforcement chief was compelled out.
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Aleman noted from San Salvador, El Salvador. AP videojournalist Dan Christian Rojas in Tulum contributed to this report.
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