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MEXICO CITY — Municipal police pulled their guns on masked federal agents in one of Mexico’s biggest cities — a stark display of the tensions caused by a crackdown on drug corruption among the country’s lawmen.
Federal forces are leading sweeps across the country to round up local officers and politicians accused of collaborating with brutal drug cartels. Many city police are furious at seeing colleagues disarmed, humiliated and dragged away in handcuffs.
Monday evening’s confrontation started when federal police showed up to disperse city officers who were protesting the federal raids by blocking several streets in suburbs of Monterrey.
Anxious motorists fled their cars and took cover — although no shots were fired.
