The pattern of impunity was set.
The series also revealed a pattern of impunity and corruption, garnering attention around the world.
International human rights groups took up the case as an example of what they called a pattern of impunity for human rights violations in Oaxaca.
But the movement has grown in size and anger with the recognition, activists and residents say, that black people in Toronto and across Canada face the same types of prejudices as their American counterparts, while a similar pattern of impunity protects the police.
One such injustice is that when law enforcement personnel kill Black people, there is a systemic pattern of impunity.
But that pattern of official impunity may be changing.
Mr. Kadyrov's human rights record is chilling, and allegations of his government's patterns of brutality and impunity are widespread.
"This case was emblematic of the patterns of violence, abuse, and impunity that we have seen inside CBP for many years," Christian Ramirez, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, a network of community organizations that has worked with the Rojas family and has long assailed the lack of transparency and accountability mechanisms inside the agency, told me.
"This case was emblematic of the patterns of violence, abuse and impunity that we have seen inside CBP for many years," Christian Ramirez, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, a network of community organizations that has worked with the Rojas family and has long assailed the lack of transparency and accountability mechanisms inside the agency, told me.
To call for an end or even a pause in protests, as Mayor de Blasio has done, perniciously suggests that the actions of one Baltimore man, hellbent on revenge, delegitimize anger at patterns of police racism, killing, and impunity.
