years leading up to 2020. Some of these killings of young unarmed Latino men drew outrage for their sheer brutality. In the case of Sean Monterrosa (22 years old) in Vallejo, California, Monterrosa was apprehended, on his knees, with his hands held above his waist, when police opened fired and killed him. In the case of Alex Nieto (28 years old), Nieto was eating his dinner of a burrito and chips before work at a San Francisco park when a passerby called 9-1-1 because he considered Nieto suspicious. When the SFPD arrived, one officer shot 23 rounds at Nieto, another officer shot him 20 times, and two more officers shot Nieto at least 5 more times while he lay dying, yet no officer was criminally charged. In March of 2021, 13-year old Adam Toledo in Chicago was chased into an alley before being shot and killed by police. COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted the Mexican American and Latino communities. Professor Rogelio Sáenz described the pandemic's effect on Tejanos and Latinos in Texas, saying, 2020 was "a hellish, hellish year. Once you adjusted for age, you really see clearly that Latinos were dying at rates more than three times as high as the white population." In 2020 alone, approximately 1 in 1,150 Latinos in the United States died from COVID-19. Because many Mexican Americans and Latinos disproportionately work in the service-sector and were thus considered part of the "essential" workforce, they had to bear a major part of the pandemic's force. Complications from the coronavirus were especially dire for Latinos without health insurance. In the economic fallout of the pandemic, many Mexican Americans and Latinos relied on food banks and unemployment insurance to keep their families alive. Historiography Scholars of Mexican American history Rodolfo Acuña James F. Brooks Geraldo Cadava Lionel Cantú Verónica Castillo-Muñoz Miroslava Chavez-Garcia Iris Engstrand Lori A. Flores Neil Foley Ignacio M. Garcia Juan Gómez-Quiñones Ramón A. Gutiérrez Lisbeth Haas Ian Haney López Mireya Loza Rosina Lozano Kelly Lytle Hernández John Raymond Mckiernan-González Martha Menchaca Ana Minian Natalia Molina David Montejano Cherrie Moraga Monica Muñoz Martinez Mae Ngai Eduardo Obregón Pagán Lorena Oropeza Americo Paredes Stephen Pitti Andrés Reséndez Horacio Roque Ramírez Catherine S. Ramirez Vicki Ruiz Paul Spickard Zaragosa Vargas David J. Weber See also Latino Americans History of Mexico History of United States List of Mexican Americans Mexican American Mexico Spanish Americans History of Hispanic