"Texas Rangers have a long history of suppressing civil rights movements throughout the 20th century, using force, violence and intimidation," says historian Monica Muñoz Martinez.
A 12-foot statue of Texas Rangers Capt. Jay Banks that stood in a Dallas airport as a towering tribute to the state's investigative force is now hidden away — while officials ponder whether it has become a symbol of police brutality.
The move to re-examine the Rangers' history of racially motivated policing comes as a national uprising is taking place over the failure to hold law officers accountable for brutal and at times lethal enforcement. Story continuesSwanson says that Banks"saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob" and that Banks wrote that the people protesting the children's enrollment were"salt of the earth citizens" who were"concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life."
'Unsettling figure to be venerating'Historian Monica Muñoz Martinez chronicled the Texas Rangers' violence against Mexican Americans in her 2018 book,"The Injustice Never Leaves You." Massacre haunts Rangers' mythic pastThe Rangers, an integral part of the state's public safety infrastructure, are often called in to lead independent investigations. They opened an investigation of the Midland County Sheriff's Office and one involving a Hays County constable and his staff in February. They were called in to investigate the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs in 2017.
The Rangers had been hunting García's great-grandfather Chico Cano. Families from the village fled to Mexico and later returned, but they lost land because of the Rangers' raid, García said.
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A removed statue dredges up racism against blacks, Latinos in Texas Rangers' history'Texas Rangers have a long history of suppressing civil rights movements throughout the 20th century, using force, violence and intimidation,' says historian Monica Muñoz Martinez.
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