Houston Latino History - 1977- 1978
A couple of months ago I asked some students in a cultural studies course if they knew anything about the Moody Park Riot of 1978. No one knew about the incident.
The problem was directly related to the death of a Vietnam veteran named Joe Campos Torres - the students didn’t know about him either.
Here is an article from The Economist on Campos Torres’ death. At the bottom of this dreamacttexas post is a recent story by KUHF, Houston Public Radio.
“Mr Joe Campos Torres was arrested by six police officers for being disorderly in a bar. They beat him so badly that the jailer refused to accept him and told them to take him to hospital. Instead they dropped him into the Buffalo Bayou “to see if he could swim”. His body was found three days later. ” from The Economist
For many decades it was a common thing for police (from most anywhere in southeast Texas) to beat the Latino and Black men when they were arrested.
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