Local News in Brief : Latino Activist Group
An activist group announced Thursday the formation of a commission to monitor incidents of brutality and discrimination against members of Los Angeles’ large Latino community.
Antonio H. Rodriguez, an attorney and the executive director of the New Center for Law and Justice, said the commission would “serve as a resource and information center to investigate violations of human rights against Latinos.”
Rodriguez said the Los Angeles Human Rights Commission, to be headed by a paralegal in Rodriguez’s East Los Angeles group, will compile incidents of police brutality and violent episodes involving federal immigration agents. In recent weeks, Rodriguez and other immigrant advocates have called for FBI investigations into the deaths of two Mexican immigrants in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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