Hundreds of police attacks on journalists were documented during the George Floyd protests. The violence recalls the 1970 slaying of Ruben Salazar.
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, a radio journalist in Los Angeles since 2000, responded with the typical affirmative when he got a request from his editor on a Sunday to cover some news. He’d be out at that afternoon’s anti-police brutality protests in his home city of Long Beach. Sure thing.
The KPCC reporter, wearing press credentials and a blue polo, arrived at the peaceful demonstration on May 31 and got to work: observing the scene, doing spot interviews, and keeping an eye on Long Beach police officers in riot gear holding a line near 3rd Street and Pine Avenue.He called in details to the news broadcast at Southern California Public Radio . “Just as I said goodbye to the host, things changed,” Guzman-Lopez said.
He was the Mexican American journalist whose trailblazing career at the L.A. Times coincided with the revolutionary fervor of the Chicano Movement, the youth-led wave of activism and art that coalesced around opposition to the Vietnam War. On Aug. 29, 1970, Salazar was killed when a sheriff’s deputy shot a tear-gas projectile into the covered doorway of a bar in the chaos of the police melee that followed the Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles.
“It worried me a lot,” Medina added, particularly since this year is the 50th anniversary of the moratorium, or the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against the Vietnam War. “We certainly didn’t want to see another [case like] Ruben Salazar.”Salazar, one of the earliest nonwhite reporters ever published in the Los Angeles Times, built a storied career at the newspaper.
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