Mexico: Overhaul Police Forces

Click to expand Image Young people march in Guadalajara, Jalisco on June 6, 2020 to protest the May 4 killing of Giovanni López after he was arrested in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Jalisco, allegedly for not wearing a mask. © 2020 GDA via AP Images (Washington, DC) – Recent police abuses across Mexico should be a wake-up call to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to lead a national process to professionalize police forces and hold them accountable, Human Rights Watch said today. In June 2020, protesters gathered in cities across Mexico in response to a series of high-profile killings…

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