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Juan Flores and his men killed an LA County sheriff in 1857, and Flores was lynched for it. But the rest of tale has been embellished, fabricated, bent, folded and mutilated so much over the decades, we still have to ask: Who was Juan Flores?
By Gustavo Arellano
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