Hector Tobar Agrees with Cops: Ruben Salaz­ar Wasn't Murdered

Rather, “it was a stupid and entirely preventable accident,” the LA Times columnist reflects after studying the Sheriff’s Dept.’s documents of the investigation of Salazar’s death. Those documents, along with an independent review by a city watchdog agency, were finally released in February of this year.

The back story: in 1970, local journalist Ruben Salaz­ar was covering a protest against the Vietnam war in East Los Angeles when he was killed by an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy.

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