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Family of Joe Campos Torres - who was killed by Houston Police Department officers in 1977 - gather for the unveiling of a trail marker which has been named in his honor on Saturday, April 2, 2022, in Houston.Margarita Torres held her chin high and gaze solemn through a three-hour ceremony to honor her son, but when the rifles saluted and “Silver Taps” notes played Saturday, her face began to soft.
The memorial area includes a small downtown park named “Joe Campos Torres Plaza” at the foot of Austin Street, and the surrounding “Joe Campos Torres Trail” along a segment of the Buffalo Bayou trail extension. The Texas A&M Mariachi “Aggie Land” and the Houston Police Department Honor Guard performed.
“Today is about you and this entire family, because how many sleepless nights, how many crying nights have you experienced in 45 years?,” he told her. Torres went out drinking on the night of May 5, 1977, at Club 21, a now-closed neighborhood bar on Canal and North Burr streets near his home in a poor East End barrio.
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