The Border Is a Constitution-Free Zone for Agents Who Shoot and Kill. But Maybe Not for Long Roque Planas and Cristian Farias - The Huffington Post | |
go to original February 20, 2017 |
María Guadalupe Güereca wanted to hold her son.
Instead, Mexican police held her back from the crime scene. So she watched him from above the canal that carries the Rio Grande between the American city of El Paso, Texas, and the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez.
Her 15-year-old son, Sergio Hernández, had been playing with a group of boys along the river, when U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesús Mesa Jr. went to apprehend them, apparently viewing them either as drug smugglers or people trying to cross the border illegally. He grabbed one of the boys on the U.S. side of the river canal, as the rest fled. Sensing that someone was throwing rocks, he turned toward Sergio, who had taken cover behind the bridge piling on the Mexican side of the river, and shot him in the face.
The medics who arrived on the scene soon ceded their job to the coroners. But Güereca swears she saw her son move.
“My boy was alive when I got there,” Güereca said. “”
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Related: Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Case That Challenges Cross-Border Killings by US Agents (USA Today)
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