Mexican Immigrant's Death by US Border Agents Captured on Video Daniel Gonzalez, Bob Ortega and Rob O'Dell - The Arizona Republic
go to original December 27, 2013

In May of 2010, eyewitnesses shot cellphone videos that show a 42-year-old undocumented immigrant handcuffed, face-down on the ground at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry and surrounded by U.S. border agents.

One agent rips the man’s pants off and another shocks him with repeated blasts from a stun gun while the victim, Anastacio Hernandez Rojas, begs for someone to help him. Hernandez Rojas wails in agony as eyewitnesses yell at the agents, “Hey! He’s not resisting, guys. Why do you guys keep pressing on him?”

The videos are disturbingly similar to the video of Rodney King being kicked and beaten with batons by Los Angeles police officers in 1991, which remains seared in the public’s memory more than 20 years after it was shot by an eyewitness.

King survived. Hernandez Rojas died of his injuries three days later in the hospital. The San Diego medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.

Both cases raised much larger questions. Yet the reaction has been starkly different.

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