Tensions high after Border Patrol kills teen

[marmar]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico —

Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, a shooting near downtown El Paso that is threatening to escalate tensions over migrant issues.

U.S. authorities said Tuesday a Border Patrol agent was defending himself and colleagues when he fatally shot the 15-year-old as officers came under a barrage of big stones while trying to detain illegal immigrants on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

About 30 relatives and friends gathered late Tuesday to mourn Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka, who died Monday on the Mexican side of the river border with Texas.

"Damn them! Damn them!" sobbed Rosario Hernandez, sister of the dead teenager, at a wake in the family's two-room adobe house on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez.

Preliminary reports on the incident indicated that U.S. officers on bicycle patrol "were assaulted with rocks by an unknown number of people," Border Patrol Special Operations Supervisor Ramiro Cordero said Tuesday. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-border-slaying-20100610,0,1493671.story

[IndianaJoe]

1. Yeah. It was a very hot item on our Latino radio station

this morning. The use of deadly force from a rock-throwing 14 year old hardly seems commensurate with the threat.