THE WASHINGTON POST: Killed by police in Colombia

Joan Nicolás García Guerrero was mourning the fallen from Colombia’s worst bout of civil unrest in years.

Then, the candlelight vigil that the 26-year-old artist and father was attending in the city of Cali descended into chaos — a scene captured, like so much of the Colombian violence, by amateur video.

García Guerrero, a front-line protester, had expressed a willingness to give his life for the cause. “Mother,” he had written in a text to his family on April 28, the day the demonstrations erupted. “We have to have a civil war, it’s painfully sad, but true.”