Article: Where salsa meets burger. (Hispanic American population in Los Angeles, CA)

LOS ANGELES

NOTHING concentrates the minds of Angelenos like a televised beating. The Riverside County policemen had kept their distance in an 80-mile (129km) high-speed chase of a pick-up truck crammed with suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico. After a similar chase in 1992 had ended in the deaths of six Mexicans, they did not want to make the pick-up crash. Once the dilapidated vehicle pulled over, 19 of the Mexicans scattered into nearby orchards and were quietly arrested. The two who remained cowering beside the pick-up were not so fortunate. They were whipped repeatedly with batons, even though they stood still. A circling helicopter from a nearby television ...

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