Policing & state violence
Porvenir Massacre
28 January 1918Porvenir, Presidio County, TX
Texas Rangers, soldiers and local ranchers took fifteen Mexican men and boys out of the village of Porvenir at night and shot them. The survivors fled across the river and the village was burned.
- People killed
- 15
- People displaced
- 140
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