Mexico calls on U.S. to probe police killings of its nationals
Mexico calls on U.S. to probe police killings of its nationals
Source: Reuters - Mon, 2 Mar 2015 21:34 GMT
MEXICO CITY, March 2 (Reuters) - Mexico's government on Monday called on the United States to investigate a string of killings of its nationals by American police, voicing "profound consternation and irritation" at what it called a presumed excessive use of force.
The Mexican foreign ministry said it had asked the U.S. Department of Justice to help investigate the fatal shooting of Mexican citizen Ernesto Javier Canepa Diaz on Feb. 27 by police in Santa Ana, California.
It was the third fatal shooting of Mexicans by U.S. police in under a month, the Mexican government said.
Antonio Zambrano Montes, 35, an unemployed orchard worker from Mexico's Michoacan state, was killed last month in Pasco, a city of 68,000 residents in Washington state's agricultural heartland. The shooting was captured on video.
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