Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico Says U.S Police Use Excessive Force on Mexicans

Mexico's government on Monday called on the United States to investigate a string of killings of its nationals by American police, voicing "profound consternation and irritation" at what it called a presumed excessive use of force.

The Mexican foreign ministry said it had asked the U.S. Department of Justice to help investigate the fatal shooting of Mexican citizen Ernesto Javier Canepa Diaz on Feb. 27 by police in Santa Ana, California.

It was the third fatal shooting of Mexicans by U.S. police in under a month, the Mexican government said.

Antonio Zambrano Montes, 35, an unemployed orchard . . .

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