Washington State Protests Spread Over Police Shooting of Mexican Man Reuters
go to original February 20, 2015

Seattle Protesters Stage Pasco Rally (Alternative News)

Protests over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Mexican immigrant in southeastern Washington spread to the state’s largest city, Seattle, this week, with demonstrators renewing calls for change in policing tactics in the United States.

About two dozen people attended the rally in downtown Seattle, some 200 miles (320 km) northwest of the largely agricultural city of Pasco, where Antonio Zambrano-Montes was killed on Feb. 10.

His death has prompted protests in Pasco, some attended by hundreds of people in the city of about 68,000, half of whom are Hispanic, and drawn condemnation by the Mexican government.

Demonstrators said during Wednesday’s rally in Seattle the shooting was the latest example of police use of excessive force in minority communities in the United States.

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