Alonzo Loredo Flores tragically lost his life during the Pharr Riot. Flores was a bystander as were most in that community who watched in horror as police officers chased young men through the streets, guns and shotguns drawn like in a Western flick. Loredo Flores was Robert Loredo’s first cousin. Robert Loredo helps us place the events of that day in context: the segregated communities which still existed and corporal punishment in the public schools for daring speak Spanish on school campuses.