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Mexico Arrests 6 Police in 2015 Killings of Civilians

Associated Press

   MEXICO CITY - Prosecutors in Mexico said Thursday they have arrested
   six federal police officers in connection with a series of shootings in
   2015 in which at least eight demonstrators died.

   They are the first arrests under the current administration of federal
   police, a force that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has
   downsized and criticized as corrupt and inefficient.

   A federal official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the
   officers were arrested on homicide and attempted homicide charges
   related to the 2015 shootings in the western state of Michoacan.

   The federal Human Rights Commission has said at least six of the
   demonstrators were victims of use of excessive force or execution and
   another may have been run over by a police vehicle.

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