Topic > Mexican Women and Mexican-American Women - 1873

No one knows what really happened that day as the police only took the sailors' side of the story into account and barely tried to get the Mexican's side of the story. Later that day, the sailors went on a rampage, broke into the Carmen Theater, tore the clothes of zoo patrons, beat the youths, and when the police arrived, they arrested the victims. The group of sailors returns the next evening with 200 allies where they terrorize and unite the youth of the neighborhood. The “police and sheriff said they could not find the sailors. In the end they arrested nine sailors but released them without pressing charges" (Acuna