Straight talk about Latino gangs in Denver.
Booking photos of Tlaloc Chavez and Elias Chavez, who were sentenced to life in prison for the murders of David Lara and DeAngelo Tafoya on September 28.On September 28, Elias Chavez and Tlaloc Chavez, both 23 and unrelated, were each given two life sentences for the 2021 murders of David Lara, 59, and DeAngelo Tafoya, 59 — acts that theThe outcome was expected, but it still shook attorney Jason Flores-Williams, who represented Elias Chavez.
"I run the risk in saying this stuff of coming across like some jerk-off Sean Hannity," he notes."The attitude of people like that disgusts me. They come out of a place of hate for the Latino people and their culture, and I come out of a place of profound love. These statements aren't made to all of Latino culture. They're made to a certain set that, through almost no choice of their own, are engaging in gang culture and gang activity.
The gang life can seem like a seductive alternative, he concedes."I've seen this normalized, where kids take photos of themselves with automatic weapons or Glocks and with their bandannas on giving some kind of gang symbolization and post them on social media," he says."But they're taking pride in something that doesn't require strength, only weakness, and it's damaging to the Latino culture.
He includes himself in this equation."I feel complicit in it if I sit around representing these cases as they come in day after day — and my office gets called day after day about these cases — if I don't say something I know to be true," he says.
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