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A: I come from a family of immigrants. I was born here but my parents are Sri Lankan Tamils. They came to this country when there was sporadic violence and widespread discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka. And when I was 10, the civil war started and most of my extended family left Sri Lanka, and many of them came to live with us for several years.When I was a child, I saw first-hand the pain and the challenges that displacement causes. Some of my cousins came and lived with us for differen

A version of the following blog appeared in the Voice of OC

Death of L.A. teen at hands of cops was caught on tape. But refusal to release video has some questioning policies, use nationwide.

By Jessica Cobb

The growing problem of police violence and public mistrust in law enforcement isn’t a breakdown of policing but of democracy.

By Daniel TorresWhen you join the U.S. Marine Corps, you are taught to “leave no man behind.”I lived and breathed those words while serving as an infantryman in the First Battalion, 7th Regiment in Iraq.These days, however, that maxim holds a very different meaning.