The recent killing of a Black teenager by the police in Cuba, and the disturbing details caught on video, have drawn rare attention to police brutality and racial discrimination on the island. Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior, which oversees the Revolutionary Police, admitted in a statement that an unidentified male was killed when officers opened fire at the scene of a fight in the Condado Sur neighborhood in Santa Clara, a city in central Cuba, on Friday. The ministry statement published Saturday did not name the person killed but Cuban independent media and the youth’s father, Yosvany Batist…
