2 Puerto Rico police officers charged with murder in a week as calls mount for reform
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A police officer was charged with murder Tuesday for allegedly chasing a man down with his pickup truck while off duty and shooting him in the back as the victim tried to flee.
The defendant is the second officer to be charged with murder in as many weeks in this U.S. Caribbean territory, where police struggling to curb spiraling drug violence increasingly are accused of committing crimes themselves.
What drug violence in Puerto Rico? Don’t see anything about it in the Washington Post? I wonder why.