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 Death on the BorderPosted on Apr 24, 2012
In May 2010, Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, a 32-year-old Mexican immigrant, was handcuffed, hogtied, kicked, beaten and tased five times before he died in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol officers, who justified their actions by claiming he resisted arrest. New eyewitness video says otherwise. The footage aired nationally last Friday as part of a joint investigation by the PBS program “Need to Know” and The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. Below, Amy Goodman speaks with PBS reporter John Carlos Frey; Maria Puga, Hernandez-Rojas’ widow, and Humberto Navarrete, a former National Guardsman and eyewitness to the beating. —ARK “Democracy Now!:” Advertisement TAGS:
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By PatrickHenry, April 27, 2012 at 3:40 am Link to this comment
Big news over here, actions like this happen every day in the occupied terrirories of the West bank and Gaza and you really have to look for the articles in the foreign press.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, April 24, 2012 at 3:17 pm Link to this comment
Once airlines treated their passengers with respect, now its feet back and spread’m. Stewardesses were charming now if you ask them what is taking so long a threat of arrest is the answer.
Its no wonder this is the evolution of the American ‘welcome wagon’.
Report thisBy americanme, April 24, 2012 at 3:02 pm Link to this comment
They ARE thugs.
Report thisBy Deirdre, April 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm Link to this comment
The Border Agents here are acting like thugs.
Report thisBy americanme, April 24, 2012 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
He is one of thousands killed in cold blood under very similar circumstance by the US Border Patrol.
Some have even been shot and killed from El Paso, TX, when they were actually on the Mexican side of the border in Ciudad Juarez.
Report thisBy Tim Caffery, April 24, 2012 at 11:11 am Link to this comment
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How do you legalize lynching, again? Make all the laynchers kids police and agents.
Report thisResistance is futile. It’s time for REVOLUTION. Thoreau style CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, no
more bullsh!t marches.