Immigrant Living In The U.S. For 25 Years Was Beaten To Death By Border Agent

[thernbroom]

PBS has released a documentary showing the savage death of an illegal immigrant near the California border. 42-year-old Anastasio Hernández-Rojas was beaten with hands, feet, police-issue batons and tazed for 30 minutes, ending in death for the 25-year United States resident and father of five. His children are all U.S. citizens.

Anastasio Hernández-Rojas had lived in the United States since the age of 15. When he was detained for living here illegally, instead of being deported, he was killed. That is not justice. That is criminal.

The agents say they confronted Hernández-Rojas because he became hostile and resisted arrest. But previously undisclosed videos recorded by eyewitnesses on their cellphones show a different story. “All eyewitnesses that we spoke to basically tell the same story of a man hogtied and handcuffed behind his back, not resisting, being beaten repeatedly by batons, by kicks, by punches, by the use of a taser, for almost 30 minutes until he died,” says reporter John Carlos Frey, whose exposé aired in a national television special last Friday night as part of a joint investigation by the PBSbroadcast, “Need to Know,” and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. We also speak with Hernández-Rojas’s widow, María Puga. “My husband was tortured. He was severely beaten. And they’ve destroyed an entire family,” says Puga, speaking through a Spanish-English translator. “All we want is justice. And we need your help to get that justice.”

For a full transcript, visit Democracy Now.

Incidents like this illustrate the deep need for change in both immigration law and enforcement, especially in oversight. Most people watching this video do not understand what could cause a group of people to inflict this on another human being, and it stands to reason that the culture of law enforcement in this area could have something to do with it.

There is no reason for this to ever have happened.


Warning: this video contains violent imagery that some viewers may find offensive. Please use discretion.

Illegal Immigrant Living In The U.S. For 25 Years Was Brutally Beaten To Death By Border Agents In Horrific Video (VIDEO) | Addicting Info

 

[mbewane]

 

[thekingsmen]

This may happen alot without a witness to videotape.

 

[Solomon Caine]

So terrorism is the biggest threat to all of us. These are the people that are supposed to keep us safe from them. Gotta love American hypocritical reasoning.

 

[newarkhiphop]

:che: take all there jobs, destroy there language, destroy there culture.

 

[Brown_Pride]

turns out we DO have cartels here in the USA

 

[Type Username Here]

:che: take all there jobs, destroy there language, destroy there culture.

their*

You spelled it wrong three times.

 

[newarkhiphop]

turns out we DO have cartels here in the USA

if only we had secured our borders from these people

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

fukking disgusting.
how do these animals get badges?