Shocking Video Shows Mexican Immigrant Beaten to Death By U.S. Border Patrol Agents. 1 of 2
April 24, 2012
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17:58Now PlayingShocking Video Shows Mexican Immigrant Beaten to Death By U.S. Border Patrol Agents. 1 of 2
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - A new PBS documentary exposes the tasing and beating death of a Mexican immigrant by U.S. border agents in California, and has renewed scrutiny of what critics call a culture of impunity. In May 2010, 32-year-old Anastasio Hernández Rojas was caught trying to enter the United States from Mexico near San Diego. He had previously lived in the United States for 25 years and was the father of five U.S.-born children. But instead of deportation, Hernández Rojas' detention ended in his death. A number of border officers were seen beating him, before one tasered him at least five times. During the incident, he was handcuffed and hogtied. He died shortly afterward. The agents say they confronted Hernández Rojas because he became hostile and resisted arrest. But previously undisclosed videos recorded by eyewitnesses on their cell phones show a different story. The footage was obtained by reporter John Carlos Frey and aired in a national television special last Friday night, as part of a joint investigation by the PBS broadcast ,"Need to Know," and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. Frey joins us to discuss the exposé, along with Hernández Rojas' widow, María Puga, and translator, Christian Ramírez.
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