A Los Angeles protester whose testicle was injured when an LAPD officer shot him with a hard-foam projectile during a street demonstration in 2020 has received a $1.5 million settlement from the city, his attorneys announced Thursday. Montemayor, now 32 and a filmmaker, said he has mostly recovered, but he still experiences back pain that began after his surgery and …
There is a resurgence in Latin Americans reclaiming their heritage language, the language spoken at home that’s different from the dominant language of the country. At the time, Mangurian said, her family members and other immigrants were trying to make sure their children were very “American,” which, to them, meant “speaking English only.” For some Latin Americans, like Mangurian, not …
As smoke from a nearby car fire billowed up, the police batons came raining down. “We are protesting police brutality,” Jones said, “and then being brutalized by police while we’re protesting.” A Times review of dozens of instances of police force during protests over the killing in police custody of George Floyd found that demonstrators suffered a range of injuries …
