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The story of Jose Campos Torres is a painful chapter in Houston’s history that reveals how injustice can ignite a community’s demand for change. On Cinco de Mayo 1978, what should have been a routine arrest turned into a brutal act of violence that ended with Torres’ death. His killing by police officers and the subsequent failure of the justice system sparked the Moody Park Riot in 1979, a powerful expression of anger and grief from Houston’s Latino community. This post expl