the Chronicle reported Saturday<\/a>.\u00a0Mendoza-Cervantes flees toward a gas station and disappears from view, but Parra-Hernandez runs toward another pickup truck in a strip center.<\/p>\nA Jeep Cherokee is then seen turning off Clay Road, jumping a median and entering the parking lot. The vehicle approaches\u00a0Parra-Hernandez, drives by him and stops. The pickup truck in the strip center\u00a0blocks the sight of a collision, but Parra-Hernandez is seen lying on the ground once it moves away a moment later.<\/p>\n
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Residents on Sunday held up signs that read “The World is Watching” and “I’d rather die standing than live on my knees,” near the site where Parra-Hernandez was struck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leticia Gutierrez, the Democratic candidate for Texas’ 9th Congressional district, said if an unmarked car were chasing her, she’d pull out her gun.<\/p>\n
“I mean is that what we’re waiting for?” Gutierrez said at the event. “Are we waiting for more chaos to continue to move here when what really is needed here is some compassion and honest conversations around how to make this better, not to continue to murder people in the street.”<\/p>\n
Espinosa commended Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley\u00a0Briones Sunday for vowing to remove all Flock cameras from her precinct \u2013 a move Espinosa said will benefit public safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey claim to be for public safety,\u201d\u00a0Espinosa said about ICE. He said what happened to Parra-Hernandez months after Salgado was shot to death in Houston shows the agency is for the opposite of public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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“He wants us to keep fighting, he wants us to stay strong and he told us to take care of ourselves,” Espinosa said of Parra-Hernandez.<\/p>\n
Casta\u00f1eda said for the past five years she has been giving soundbaths, a meditative session where people are immersed in instruments to relax the nervous system. Most of her clients are Hispanic, she said. Most of them have stopped coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo realize the little things they can do for themselves, they\u2019ve just stopped doing it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family and advocates gathered Sunday Oct. 11, 2026 to demand justice for Miguel Parra Hernandez, a Houston man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-463510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}