Los Angeles, America’s second largest city, has a horrible secret. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the fourth largest police department in the country – harbors dozens of criminal gangs within its ranks. These LASD gangs have been involved in assaults, the creation of false evidence, and even murder. A Gravel Institute documentary.

Returning to Salazar Park, which was named after the reporter and hero Ruben Salazar, who was killed by LAPD while covering the Moratorium, Carlos Montes denounces US imperialism and NATO wars.

The Chicano Moratorium was a mass movement of Chicanos who organized against the Vietnam War, since Chicano soldiers accounted for around 20% of casualties in the war, despite comprising only 10% of the total US population. Meanwhile, Chicanos were also facing oppression in many forms here at home, from police brutality to exclusion from higher education. Dozens of marches were held around the country, including San Francisco and Oakland. The largest march, made up of 30,000 protestors, took place in East Los Angeles on August 29, 1970. The protestors were violently attacked by the L.A. police and sheriffs, resulting in three deaths, including the assassination of Ruben Salazar, an acclaimed Chicano journalist, by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.