Mexican teenager killed by US border official

[Kuya]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=127594935

Quoting some parts:

Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, a shooting near downtown El Paso that is threatening to escalate tensions over migrant issues.

U.S. authorities said Tuesday a Border Patrol agent was defending himself and colleagues when he fatally shot the 15-year-old as officers came under a barrage of big stones while trying to detain illegal immigrants on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

Preliminary reports on the incident indicated that U.S. officers on bicycle patrol "were assaulted with rocks by an unknown number of people," Border Patrol Special Operations Supervisor Ramiro Cordero said Tuesday.

"During the assault at least one agent discharged his firearm," he said. "The agent is currently on administrative leave. A thorough, multi-agency investigation is currently ongoing."

Less than two weeks ago, Mexican migrant Anastasio Hernandez, 32, died after a Customs and Border Protection officer shocked him with a stun gun at the San Ysidro border crossing that separates San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. The San Diego medical examiner's office ruled that death a homicide.

On an unpaved street, gathered around Hernandez's gray metal casket, the teen's family called for justice.

"There is a God, so why would I want vengeance if no one will return him to me. They killed my little boy and the only thing I ask is for the law" to be applied, said the boy's father, Jesus Hernandez.

His mother was less hopeful. "May God forgive them because I know nothing will happen" to them, Maria Guadalupe Huereka said.

Above the casket was a photo of the youth wearing his soccer uniform and his junior high school grade cards, which showed A's and B's.

According to the FBI, Border Patrol agents were responding to a group of suspected illegal immigrants being smuggled into the U.S. near the Paso Del Norte bridge, across from Ciudad Juarez around 6:30 p.m. Monday.

One suspected illegal immigrant was detained on the levee on the U.S. side, the FBI said in a statement. Another Border Patrol agent arrived on the concrete bank where the now-dry, 33-foot (10-meter) wide Rio Grande is, and detained a second person. Other suspects ran back into Mexico and began throwing rocks, the FBI said.

At least one rock came from behind the agent, who was kneeling beside a suspected illegal immigrant whom he had prone on the ground, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said.

The agent told the rock throwers to stop and back off, but they continued. The agent fired his weapon several times, hitting one person who later died, said the FBI, which is leading the investigation because it involved an assault on a federal officer. The agent was not injured, Simmons said.

The boy was shot once near the eye, Sandoval said. Authorities were still investigating the bullet's trajectory, he said.

Sandoval said Mexican investigators were questioning three teenagers who were with the victim at the time of the shooting.

The boy's sister, Rosario, told Associated Press Television News that her brother was playing with several friends and did not plan to cross the border.

"They say that they started firing from over there and suddenly hit him in the head," she said.

The boy's mother said he had gone to eat with his brother, who handles luggage at a border customs office. While there, he met up with a group of friends and they decided to hang out by the river, she said.

This sounds like something you'd see in the West Bank honestly. Shooting at kids trowing rocks at you is just absurd, even though it's not really confirmed if the kid who got killed was throwing any rocks.

Is this the kind of violence one can expect to become common with the militarization of the border?

[Fievel]

Damn Mexican's always getting shot.

[Demosthenes]

Yes.

[Souj]

If they don't want to get shot, they should just be born in America.

[Atreides]

ITS TOO BAD HE WASNT A FUCKING PALESTINIAN

[Fievel]

If they don't want to get shot, they should just be born in America.

My thoughts exactly.

ITS TOO BAD HE WASNT A FUCKING PALESTINIAN

lol

[Zeb]

Who brings a rock to a gun fight?

[Mizango]

I bet he wont throw rocks anymore.

[Headspace]

something something war zone

[*Shinzon*]

You can blame the drug cartels and armed coyotes for that. These guys are there to make sure the border isn't breached. They take shit all day in the form of rock throwing, Molotov cocktails and sometimes gun fire from the other side of the border. Is it right that innocents get harmed? Not at all, but you can't realistically expect shit like this not to happen ever.

There was actually a really good documentary about several customs and border patrol agents done by the discovery channel that may put things into better perspective if you watch it.

[Kuya]

I've only seen MSNBC a few times recently, and i haven't seen this news mentioned. How much coverage has it gotten in the US?

[Lucavi]

Why hang around the border anyway, knowing that there are armed guards there that are looking out for people JUST LIKE YOURSELF!

Yeah, he wanted lunch with his brother who worked around there, but still. If my brother works at a nuclear power plant (which also has armed guards patrolling), I'm not going to hang out around it, then throw rocks at the guards.

More to the story than we have right now, but the point remains: there's no good reason to be hanging around armed security, no matter what someone may think.

[Mizango]

I've only seen MSNBC a few times recently, and i haven't seen this news mentioned. How much coverage has it gotten in the US?

Little to none. Our republican overlords don't release final solution news to the masses, I know that somewhere Lou Dobbs is smiling.

[*Shinzon*]

I've only seen MSNBC a few times recently, and i haven't seen this news mentioned. How much coverage has it gotten in the US?

Well like I said, I know the discovery channel has done a few documentary films about it. I remember watching one about the border patrol agents and then there was one about the CBP agency itself. On the network channels you usually wont hear about it unless someone dies on our side of the border.

[Quixon]

I bet he wont throw rocks anymore.

Lol'd a bit more than I should have.

There was actually a really good documentary about several customs and border patrol agents done by the discovery channel that may put things into better perspective if you watch it.

I think I caught this on TV the other day. The part I saw, they were specifically talking about the drug runners using the Rio Grande River to smuggle the drugs over the border.

[Fievel]

Lol'd a bit more than I should have.

You're not the only one ;x

But seriously, throw rocks at a man with a gun and you'll get shot, common sense.

[SamanosukeShiva]

something something warzone

[tyven]

so many lols in this thread. oh man. kuya why do you love mexicans and terrorists so much? it is weird to me that you value these lives that are such a burden on the rest of the world.

[archibaldcrane]

They should've just used a stun gun.

Wait.

[Absolutely Virtue]

In a perfect world, the murdering of stupid people would be so commonplace that it would no longer be newsworthy.