Maria Cruz, a 41-year-old Hispanic/Latina woman from Rockaway, New York, went to Newark, New Jersey, in late June 2014 for an underground cockfight held inside a private home on 3rd Avenue in the city’s North Ward. The event drew a crowd of spectators and gamblers into cramped rooms, the sound of birds and side conversations filling a house that was never meant to hold so many people. Amid the noise and movement, Cruz joined others around the improvised pit, unaware that the gathering had attr
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