<P> In January 1970, Salazar left the Times to serve as the news director for the Spanish language television station KMEX in Los Angeles . At KMEX, he investigated allegations of police officers' planting evidence to implicate Chicanos and the July 1970 police shooting of two unarmed Mexican nationals . According to Salazar, he was visited by undercover LAPD detectives who warned him that his investigations were "dangerous in the minds of barrio people ." </P> <P> During Salazar's time as the news director for KMEX, which was a Spanish language station, he became more outspoken on Chicano issues and gave priority to cases that were important to the Chicano Movement . This included the killing of the Sanchez cousins by police which brought forth a community wide protest as well as covering the Chicano Moratorium which ultimately led to his death . </P> <P> Salazar's strong support for the Chicano movement as a Mexican - American distinguished him early on from other journalists in mainstream media . With a strong disparity of racial minorities in news organizations nationwide, Salazar felt it was his personal and professional responsibility to give necessary attention to the actions led by his fellow Chicanos in East Los Angeles . In February 1970, just six months prior to his death, Salazar made his support for the Chicano movement particularly clear when he authored an article in the Los Angeles Times, titled, "Who Is A Chicano? And What Is It the Chicanos Want?" In this piece, Salazar not only describes the evolving identity of Chicanos and the historic importance of the movement, but he details his frustration with the lack of Mexican - American representation among the elected representatives in the Los Angeles city council . Salazar writes, "Mexican - Americans, though large in numbers, are so politically impotent that in Los Angeles, where the country's largest single concentration of Spanish - speaking live, they have no one of their own on the City Council . This in a city politically sophisticated enough to have three Negro council - men ." </P> <P> Due to his support of the Chicano movement, Ruben Salazar became an FBI target and was the subject of an FBI internal subject file . While Salazar was noted as being cooperative during his interactions with the FBI around the investigation of Stokely Carmichael he drew the FBI's attention during the Korean War when he began corresponding with a white female pacifist regarding the loss of his application for US citizenship by the army During his Carmichael interview, he is noted as saying that he could not be a witness to the speech that FBI was referencing as he was not present to which he was then asked to obtain a video of the speech to present to the FBI . While Salazar accepted, he did so under the notion that he would publicize the fact that the FBI was looking for the tape . As they feared the civil unrest this could cause if publicized, the FBI rescinded their request . Due to the fact that the FBI and the LAPD correlated civil unrest with communism, and Salazar reported at many events where civil unrest occurred, he was viewed in his files as a community . While Salazar was in fact critical of the Vietnam War, he was not a communist . LAPD also held files on Salazar specifically due to an article that Salazar wrote about the Chief of Police, Chief Davis, wherein he reported the fact that Davis referred to Mexican "tyranny and dictatorship". While local and national law enforcement were displeased with Salazar's reporting, he continued to write articles advocating the rights of his people - the Chicano community . </P>

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