Vicki Ingrid Sarmiento, a civil rights advocate who represented victims of law enforcement brutality and racial profiling, has died. She was 65.
She suffered from pulmonary embolism that was the result of a surgery caused by a fall, her legal assistant of 14 years said.
"We are all heartbroken and devastated," Joana Fregoso said Monday. "We still can't believe she is gone. She left us too soon."
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