Edward Escobar Inhumanity

Edward J. Escobar, the author and a member of the Chicana and Chicano studies and history department at the Arizona state University, writes about the corrupt and the inhumanity of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and their history dating back in the 1940s. The author narrates about the Los Angeles police who had barbarous behaviors and racial discrimination against the minority group. The brutal actions that led to the name Bloody Christmas involved officers beating up seven men and leaving them almost dead. The article describes how the Los Angeles police officers are full of inhumanity and race favors in the name of doing justice to people of good morals and law abiders (Escobar, 185).
The author does also introduce the occasions where the police harassed and oppressed the Mexican American community in the mid-1940s. The beginning of Mexican American group engagement in political activities spurred the bad relationship between the police and the community. The author tells us of how the civil rights movements challenged the Los
Trials against Rios and Ulloa began at a time when a series of other police brutal actions emerged gaining public interest. Roybal produced yet other evidence linking the police department in misconduct, but Parker termed them as an injustice to the department (Escobar, 187).Trials that took place in 1952 only saw the conviction of five officers and another officer was jailed for not more than twelve months (Escobar, 192). Parker and the judges never bothered to condemn the act where the officers involved in perjury and this is clear evidence shown of how much the city government would fight to keep the Los Angeles police force clean (Escobar, 192). The officers claimed to have unclear memory during the hearing after which they are guilty when the investigations were done afresh as judge Call directed (Escobar,