Jalisco authorities downplay police brutality saying people self-victimize or exaggerate

Despite the fact that there are videos of the protests over the death of Giovanni López, at the hands of police from Ixtlahuacán de lo Membrillos, Jalisco, the Jalisco Security Coordinator, Macedonio Tamez Guajardo said that activists have exaggerated the abuses by authorities in the protests.

"They are the activists with the usual discourse … the policemen were not armed, the police had orders not to engage. What the police did was to contain,” said . . .