![]() ![]() From the early days of this country, law-enforcement officers have conducted themselves with little consequence for their actions because the government has never placed much value on the lives of people of color. The rotten law-enforcement system we have today is the rapacious fruit of institutions like the Texas Rangers that were sowed specifically to persecute Black and brown bodies. They claimed, without proof, that their victims had been connected to a recent raid at the nearby Brite Ranch. ![]() Days later, the executioners burned what was left of the town. The rest of the villagers sought refuge in Mexico. They abducted 15 Mexican men and boys, took them to a nearby hill overlooking a river and shot them from 3 ft. Army cavalry soldiers and Anglo ranchers invaded the town. ![]() In January 1918, as the people of Porvenir, Texas, slept, a group of Texas Rangers, U.S. ![]()
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