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Border Patrol Agent Commits Atrocities While On Duty

 

“Texas Border Region: The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) expresses deep concern over recent events involving Border Patrol agent Esteban Manzanares who is reported to have assaulted three Honduran women immigrants, left two for dead, and then killed himself. We urge that the victims be protected, regardless of immigration status and receive fair treatment as survivors.

The following are statements from SBCC members in Texas.

 

Astrid Dominguez, ACLU of Texas:

This incident is one more in a pattern of CBP abuses in our border communities. Last September, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Border Patrol use of force, which identified key problems with training. This followed revelations by the Government Accountability Office of significant incidence of misconduct within CBP. We demand that DHS conduct a thorough and transparent investigation of this incident, in parallel to independent review by external investigators and determine what policy and training enhancements are necessary.”

 
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Dashcam shows cop shoot elderly man

Shocking dash cam footage shows a deputy shoot an elderly man after he says he thought the man’s cane was a shotgun.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

These police brutality videos prove the point that we see what we are looking for – even if what we see is false.

 

The tough part about being a police officer is that it’s your job to look for danger. But because you are always looking for danger, you end up seeing danger when no danger exists.

See on www.cnn.com

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Border Patrol agent assaults 3 women then takes his life

 

“The FBI is currently investigating an assaulted after a U.S. Border Patrol agent allegedly assaulted three females and then took his own life.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

March 12th, 2014
Wednesday after 7:00 pm

 

U.S. border patrol stabbed a mom and severely injured her two daughters before killing himself. He left one daughter bound in his apartment.

Twenty-seven people have lost their life from U.S. border patrol agents since 2010.

See on www.valleycentral.com

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Down Syndrome Man Attacked By Police

Florida resident Gilberto Powell, who has Down Sydrome, was abused by police who mistook his colostomy bag for a weapon.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

When you see how the police treat people, it’s no wonder that people are afraid of the police and would want to run.

 

It’s a catch 22 – especially if you are Black or Brown.

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It’s the U.S.-Mexico border, not the Wild West

 

Now we have an idea why the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service was keeping secret an independent report of its encounters at the Mexican border. Because it has something to hide.

 

“…respond to rock throwing with live ammunition across an international border — on 22 occasions in 2012 — strikes us as excessive…”
See on www.latimes.com

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The Right to Dignity – Woman Stripped Naked By Male Deputies

 

“On May 19, 2013, in the LaSalle County, Illinois jail, 32-year-old Dana Holmes was arrested for DUI.  Caught on camera are three male officers, and one female officer, dragging Dana into a cell and holding her down while the female officer strips Dana of her pants and the male officers strip her of her upper garments, leaving Dana naked on the floor.”
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Video released of Okla. man beaten to death by cops

 

FEBRUARY 26, 2014, 3:48 PM

 

Lawyers for an Oklahoma man who died in police custody released cellphone video of police restraining him to the ground as his wife looks on. Luis Rodriguez was beaten to death by cops after an altercation with his daughter outside of a movie theater.

 

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

These imperialist beat a father and husband to death on his own sovereign land.

See on www.cbsnews.com

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Border Patrol’s use of deadly force criticized in report

 

“Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.

 

The report by law enforcement experts criticized the Border Patrol for “lack of diligence” in investigating U.S. agents who had fired their weapons. It also said it was unclear whether the agency “consistently and thoroughly reviews” use-of-deadly-force incidents.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Imperialist invaders shoot sovereign people on their own land.

See on www.latimes.com

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Sheriff’s Report on Migrant Killing Raises Concern About Impartiality

 

“San Diego: On Tuesday, February 18 at approximately 6:40 AM, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 41 year-old Jesus Flores-Cruz, a Mexican national, while in a rural area of San Diego County about 5 miles north of the Otay Mesa border crossing. The name of the Border Patrol agent has been withheld.

 

The San Diego County Sheriff’s press report on the homicide describes the person killed as the “suspect” and the person who killed him as the “victim.”

 

In response, Pedro Rios, the program director for the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego, issued the following statement on behalf of the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC):

 

“We are concerned that the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is predisposing this investigation to bias by identifying the person shot and killed as a suspect at the initial stages of the investigation. This positioning endangers the impartiality in this case and our coalition has asked the Department of Justice to intervene to ensure a thorough and impartial investigation. The Justice Department is now reviewing the incident.”

 

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