Stampede

Yesterday, the capital city police tried to carry out an operation at a local bar where minors were suspected of consuming drugs and alcohol. When the patrons saw the police, there was a stampede toward the exits in which 12 people died, including two officers. Mexico City has a track record of police dying in very unusual and public circumstances, and this latest event will no doubt remind people of the lynching of two officers in 2004, when Marcelo Ebrard was head of the capital city PD.