Jared Laureles, Fernando Camacho and Kevin Ruiz
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 16, 2025, p. 4
Víctor Manuel Camacho, a photojournalist for this newspaper, was attacked yesterday and stripped of his equipment by police from the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) of Mexico City while he was covering the eviction in the Zócalo of the protesters who participated in the Sombrero and the so-called generation Z marches.
On the corner of 20 de Noviembre Street, he was trying to document the eviction operation when he was trapped among hundreds of people who ran in fear when they saw the police in riot gear running after them.
The photojournalist identified himself with the uniformed men, but “they told me that ‘they couldn’t care less’, they threw me to the floor and started kicking me, especially in the face.”
He reported that several capital police officers “robbed people’s cell phones. They asked me to turn off the camera, I responded that it was off, but another one arrived and said ‘no way, we have to steal it’, while they hit me and I covered my face; another of them threatened to kill me.”
Due to these events, a file was opened in the Prosecutor’s Office for the Investigation of Crimes committed by Public Servants, of the capital’s prosecutor’s office.
In turn, at a press conference, the head of the SSC, Pablo Vázquez, reported that he is following up on the aggression committed against Camacho. The Internal Affairs Directorate became aware of the facts, he indicated.
▲ Víctor Manuel Camacho covered the riots.Photo The Day
The police chief mentioned that at the time of the attack there was a “very large contingent of masked people” who attacked the police and that there were “many media colleagues covering the moment.
“We regret that, collaterally, never intentionally, never intentionally, they may have suffered injuries,” he said.
Camera stolen from correspondent in Jalisco
Likewise, an element of the Jalisco police stripped Juan Carlos García Partida, correspondent of The Day, during the march called by generation Z in Guadalajara. The action occurred when the communicator was recording the beating that at least five uniformed officers gave, with batons, to a hooded protester (already subdued) who would have been part of a group that caused damage to the government palace.
At that moment, the police officer ran past the reporter, snatched his equipment and continued on his way at full speed.
