I was looking for statistics on campus police stops. Then I became one.
I’ve known since I was a kid that Black and Latino people are more likely to be killed by cops. I didn’t want the situation to escalate.
Credit: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
CSU Chico junior Julian Mendoza stands with his bike near where he was stopped by university police—nearly a dozen blocks away from campus—for riding his bike on campus, on Feb. 16, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Author: Julian Mendoza (CalMatters)
Updated: 6:18 PM PST March 11, 2021
CHICO, Calif. —
Those police sirens aren’t for me, right?