Between the Barrio and the Badge

Chicano Squad

Vox Media

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Growing up in the barrio, with brothers on the wrong side of the law, Cecil Mosqueda had every reason to distrust the police. He became a cop to try and show his family there was a different way. But in the wake of José Campos Torres’ death, his loyalties to his community and his brothers in blue will be tested like never before. Take our listener survey here; thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white mom
0:04.9	influencer of attempting to kidnap her children. The Karen phenomenon where white
0:09.6	women falsely accused people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong in perfect paradise people versus
0:25.7	Karen available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.2	Previously on Chicano Squad
0:32.4	the death of Jose Campos Tora Previously on Chicano Squad.
0:39.0	The death of Jose Campos Torres at the hands of Houston police officers shook an entire community.
0:45.9	A rookie cop who'd seen everything broke the department's unspoken code of silence. The officers were fired but otherwise barely punished, and the Latino community erupted. Now faced with a lack of confidence in all directions, HPD
0:56.8	needed to find a way to restore trust and faith. My name is Asario Tamaz-Korné Homoskeva, you can call me Cecil. As everybody knew me in the police department, Cecil T.
1:15.4	As a kid in Houston's north side neighborhood,
1:18.3	no one would have thought Cecil would become a policeman.
1:21.7	Kids from Houston's Latino neighborhoods
1:24.0	didn't usually become cops.
1:26.4	But Cecil had always been a little different.
1:29.4	I was like the leader of all the kids.
1:31.4	All the kids will follow me. I like to lead by example and I was the top guy, you know?
1:36.0	Growing up, he had a paper route and he was loyal to that job all the way through high school.
1:43.0	One day in his teens, Cecil was out on his route with some other paper boys.
1:48.0	So we were all out there and this truck pulls up. Cecil wasn't paying much attention to the truck.
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