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Mexico City Police Officers Suspended over Rape of Two Teenagers

HeadlineAug 15, 2019

Mexico City’s mayor has ordered the suspension of six police officers as part of an investigation into charges that officers raped two teenage girls. The officers’ suspension came a day after hundreds of women protesters marched on the offices of Mexico City’s prosecutor to demand justice. Some of them doused Mexico’s security minister with pink glitter, while others broke glass windows in the prosecutor’s office.

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