Cell phone Video Appears to Show US Border Patrol Killing Mexican Teen

[tekisui]

Source: The Raw Story

A cell phone video has surfaced showing a US border patrol officer shooting a Mexican boy in Ciudad Juarez. Fourteen-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca was on the Mexican side of the border when he was shot and killed.

The video, obtained by CNN, captures several people running below a railroad bridge that connects the U.S. to Mexico. An officer can be seen getting off his bicycle and moving towards the figures. One person is apprehended by the officer on the Mexican side of the border.

Soon after, the officer is seen pointing his gun at a suspect who is standing on the Mexican side of the border. At least two gunshots can be heard on the tape. A third gunshot is heard moments later.

"They're throwing rocks," can be heard in Spanish, according to CNN. "They hit him... they hit him," the witness says.

Following the shooting, US officials have been scrambling to deflect criticism and paint the dead teenager as a "juvenile smuggler."

CNN noted that FBI spokesperson special agent Andrea Simmons' account differed from the video.

more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0610/border-shooting-caught-on-tape/

[havocmom]

1. 'juvenile smuggler' my ass. Smugglers don't throw rocks, they have guns, from the US

Not bad enough that they shot the kid, they have to try and sully him to protect their own asses.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Anonymous officials claim the boy smuggled people in the past

Coyotes use juveniles as guides for border-crossing because they don't face the stiff penalties that adults do.

They're trying to smear the boy for something that, as far as they know, he allegedly last did sometime last year--as if that helps justify gunning him down.

Some people (who are too cowardly to allow their names to be used) are desperate to justify the indefensible. :puke: