Civil rights organization Kilómetro Cero released a video showing police officers executing 21-year-old Jobán Rivera Mendoza and lied to the public
Human rights organization Kilómetro Cero (Cero Kilometer) released a video today that proved the Puerto Rico Police lied to the public, fabricated evidence and misled the public regarding the arrest and death of 21-year-old Jobán Rivera Mendoza.
The man was shot 10 times by police
officers during a traffic intervention last July in the northern municipality
of Carolina.
On the same day of the events, the Police classified the incident as a
“justifiable homicide.”
According to the official statement, at around 12:53 in the morning on July 23, 2023, Rivera Mendoza was stopped by agents Ismael Miranda Rodríguez and Héctor Custodio Cruz on a side of the PR-3 highway in Carolina for allegedly speeding and passing a red light.
