One Dollar for a Life

Chicano Squad

Vox Media

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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When the officers involved in the drowning of José Campos Torres get off with little more than a slap on the wrist and a dollar fine, racial tensions explode at a Cinco de Mayo celebration that will come to be known as the Moody Park Riot. With trust between the Latino community and Houston’s police destroyed and a rising number of unsolved homicides affecting Spanish-speaking Houstonians, the Houston Police Department needs to try something new. 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.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen.
0:26.3	Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	Previously on Chicano Squad.
0:44.2	One night in 1977, Houston police officers beat 23-year-old Latino veteran Jose Campostores and threw him into Buffalo Bayou, where he later drowned. His death shocked Houston's Latino community
0:46.8	and a movement demanding justice began to build.
0:50.6	Now, an entire community waited.
0:54.0	Frogman from the Houston Police Department's underwater search and recovery team.
0:57.5	We're back in Buffalo Bayou again today beneath the Commerce Street Bridge.
1:01.5	They were looking for a wallet. The wallet used to belong to
1:04.8	Joe Torres. With a shroud of secrecy that is hanging over this case, not exactly
1:09.7	happened between Torres and Denson at Friday morning at one o'clock is about as clear as the waters of Buffalo Bio.
1:17.0	The shroud of secrecy is a perfect way to put it.
1:21.0	This clip from KPRC in Houston is noteworthy for two reasons.
1:25.0	First, it illustrates the growing suspicion, at least by the media,
1:30.0	that the public was not getting the full story on what had happened that night.
1:34.8	And second, by its very existence, it shows that Jose Camp Postores' death was a big deal.
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