THE WASHINGTON POST: In Colombia, a death in police custody follows a history of brutality →

For years, Jeimmy Tique Medina, a high school security guard, held fast to her belief that the Colombian police existed to protect and serve.

Then they shot her 19-year-old son.

Now she has joined the critics of police brutality in this South American nation. Colombia is having its own version of a George Floyd moment, an eruption of anti-police sentiment in response to the deadly beating last month of a 46-year-old father of two during an altercation with officers in Bogotá.

A riot police officer holds a shield during a demonstration in Bogotá. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP/Getty Images)