UNAM student denounces being beaten by security guard

And security guard is accused of kicking and beating a student of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Via social networks a was spread video in which a supposed security guard assaults Leonardo, a student at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and who was skating near the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in University City.

In interview with Political AnimalLeonardo said that it was yesterday at 5:30 in the afternoon when he and his three friends were on the other side of Insurgentes Ave.

“The guards arrived and told us to leave and that if we didn’t want to leave, then they were going to call the Secretary of Public Security and the Legal Department. I told them to call them because we weren’t doing anything wrong,” details the young man.

UNAM SECURITY HIT STUDENTS ‼️‼️‼️
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Assault on a UNAM student by a security guard

According to Leonardo, moments later four security vehiclesand in them there were between 8 or 10 guards who got out of the vehicles and asked them to leave again.

“In unit five was where the guy in the black shirt who attacked me was going. Since we didn’t want to leave, the guy hit me, threw me, threw me to the floor and while I was lying there and he was standing, he hit me in the face, hurt my lip, kicked my ribs, I couldn’t get up, I stayed there , I did not defend myself”, describes the skater.

The young man recounts that one of his friends was also beaten while a third, whom he was recording, one of the guards tried to take the phone away.

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“Everything went very fast. They beat us out. They didn’t care that I was a student, I told them my account number and my name and they didn’t even let me,” explains Leonardo.

After the video was broadcast, users on social networks demanded that the University investigate the events and punish the security guards.

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