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English translation of in-video text:

"On the morning of August 21, seven community police officers from La Cantera, a Purépecha indigenous town in Michoacán, were reported missing.

They were believed to have been kidnapped by members of a drug cartel operating in the region.

Many feared they had been massacred.

The residents of La Cantera responded immediately by initiating their emergency plans.

They burned busses and tractor trailers to block the roads entering and leaving town.

While community police units from several other Purépecha towns came to help search for the missing officers.

On the third day of these actions, the kidnappers ceded to pressure and freed their captives.

Among those released were six men and woman.

During their captivity, the officers suffered beating and constant death threats.

But they returned home alive and with their dignity intact.

Overcome with emotion, the people of La Cantera, welcomed them home as heroes."