San Diego: Today, September 28, marks 3 years since U.S. Border Patrol Agent Justin Tackett shot and killed Valeria Munique Tachiquin in the City of Chula Vista, a San Diego suburb. Valeria Munique was a 32-year-old mother of five and a US citizen who was killed by a federal agent with a history of civil and human rights violations at his previous career as an Imperial County sheriff’s deputy. In a termination letter issued by Imperial County Sheriff’s Department Chief Sharon Housouer, Tackett was described as a deputy who could not be “trusted with a badge or a gun,” yet the Border Patrol hired Tackett. He ended up killing Valeria who was not the subject of the search warrant being served that day.

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