How a student’s death in Mexico raises questions about police violence | Police News

A tradition of protest

Mactumatza, the school Vasquez attended, is located on the outskirts of the city, not far from the highway where he died.

It is part of a nationwide network of government-funded normal schools, also known as teacher training colleges, where low-income students can enjoy free tuition and board.

Mexico’s history of normal schools stretches all the way back to the 1910s and 1920s, when the country was emerging from its revolutionary period. Many of the schools’…