AFTER KILLING OF 18-YEAR-OLD ANDRES GUARDADO, LA PROTESTERS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE LIMITS OF POLICE REFORM
Guardado was shot roughly a day after deputies killed Terron Boone — the half-brother of a Black man found hanged in a California park the week prior. Though Guardado’s death hasn’t generated as much national media coverage as other police killings have, it’s given new energy to the movement against police violence in Southern California, especially among Latinos. In California, Latinos make up 39 percent of the state’s population but represented 46 percent of the people killed by police between 2016 and 2018.
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