Last spring, Salinas residents held signs that read “Stop Police Brutality” at Salinas City Hall, protesting the May 9, 2014 fatal police shoo…
On May 20, the day Carlos Mejia was shot and killed by Salinas police officers, there as already a protest against police planned for City Hall.
Anger still lingers in the community after four men in separate incidents were shot and killed by Salinas police this year.
When police officers deploy "deadly force"—copspeak for guns—it's generally on an equal playing field, against a suspect wielding a similarly …