Edward James Olmos Quotes
I don't support violence, period.
Olmos, Edward James. Interview by Dennis Bernstein and Leslie Kean. The Progressive, vol. 63, no. 8, Aug. 1999.
When the Mexican police and the army started to crack down on the drug cartels for killing each other over drug terrirory, the cartels struck back and started murdering police and soldiers and often civilians as well. At the time ex President Fox made this statement, the Mexican government admitted to 20,000 murders but many observers believed that the number was 50,000.
Edward James Olmos is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), actor in and director of American Me (1992), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), and Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In 2018, he played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series Mayans MC.