Border Patrol’s use-of-force problem wasn’t just that agents shot people too often. It was that the agency either supported its agents, or didn’t care about addressing the public’s concerns. In spring 2014, an American Immigration Council report analyzed over 800 complaints filed about Border Patrol misconduct — most of which were about use of force — over the past few years. What they found was alarming,
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43 for 43: Marchers Demand Justice for Students of Ayotzinapa
43 civil organizations are currently marching 122 miles from Iguala, Guerrero to Mexico City.
Marchers are demanding justice for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students disappeared by the State on September 26 in Iguala.
They arrive on Sunday where thousands are expected to join them in a mega march through the streets of the Mexican capital city.
Stay tuned for updates.
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A sheriff’s deputy in upstate New York was suspended after an online video showed him sparring with someone who didn’t want his car searched.
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Official: Three men arrested in connection with the disappearance of Mexican students in Iguala, Mexico, have admitted to killing many people.
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He was shot eight times in the back by a U.S. border patrol agent who fired from behind this fence.
“What were they doing?” a Mexican dispatcher asked.
“They were throwing rocks,” a border patrol agent told her.
But other witnesses said Rodriguez was just walking by.
Since 2010, 28 people have died at the hands of border patrol agents.
Reviewing those fatal force cases was part of Jim Tomsheck’s job as head of internal affairs for Customs and Border Protection
“I am familiar with several incidents where the persons appeared to be fleeing and were shot in the back or the side at some distance from the border patrol agent when the shots were fired,” said Tomsheck.
He calls seven of those shootings “highly suspect.” But he told CBS News his bosses ignored his concerns and he did not have authority to punish agents. He was reassigned in June.
“There were certainly many cases where border patrol agents or certainly CBP officers engaged in excessive use of force or abuse of migrants at the border that should have resulted in discipline where it did not,”
Tomsheck says.
One of those not disciplined is the agent who shot Rodriguez. He remains on the job.
Rodriguez was one of 12 reportedly unarmed people shot by border agents. Autopsies on three of them show they were shot in the back, or the back of the head.
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Over the last four years, a half dozen Mexican families have suffered the loss of one of their family members as a result of Border Patrol shootings. All of the fatalities were of unarmed men, were Mexican and in Mexican territory. The Supreme Court will likely decide the fate of legal efforts to hold the CBP legally accountable for these killings.
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According to preliminary ballistics report, Misty was shot at least 10 times by the police
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Michael Brown, the 19-year-old Ferguson, Missouri teen who was unarmed when Officer Darren Wilson gunned him down on August 9, was shot in the hand at close range, according to the official autopsy preparedby the St. Louis County medical examiner’s officer and obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Brown’s skin was also found on the outside driver’s door of Wilson’s patrol car.
Last Sunday, James Ashby killed 27-year old Jack Jacquez in Jacquez’s home. No one knows why Ashby came to Jack’s house. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Rocky Ford Police Department have remained silent. That might be due to James Ashby being a police officer.
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The pattern here is that police go into Black and Brown communities and kill Black and Brown people.
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“This was no high-tech lynching, this was a vigilante lynching,” says Rev. Reginald Holmes of #MarvinBooker death. http://t.co/dOa7rj7igu
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) October 17, 2014