Posted on 06/28/2016 8:52:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One of the 11 Cuban migrants who came ashore at Hollywood Beach over the weekend has been arrested for swinging a machete at a federal officer during the encounter, court records showed.
Lazaro Mora Gutierrez is charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon in the Saturday incident, according to a criminal complaint.
According to the complaint, Gutierrez and 10 other migrants were on a homemade vessel that was close to shore near the Dania Beach Pier Saturday evening. When agents with Customs and Border Protection got to the boat, they found the Cubans armed with knives, machetes and other weapons, the complaint said.
The migrants became agitated and made threatening gestures at the agents with the weapons, and one of them stabbed himself with a knife, the complaint said. One of them threw a machete at an officer, missing but hitting a CBP boat. That migrant was shot with a pepper ball launcher, the complaint said.
During the incident, Gutierrez began wrestling with another migrant while appearing to attempt to stab himself, the complaint said. At one point, he took multiple swings at an officer with a machete, the complaint said.
Once their vessel got near land, the migrants jumped off and ran toward the beach. When Gutierrez got off the boat holding a knife he was shot with bean bag rounds and taken into custody, the complaint said.
Five of the men, including Gutierrez, suffered minor injuries and were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital.
One of the migrants, Yoandy Alonoso Figueredo, told NBC 6 the trip lasted eight days and the group went without food and water for four.on Facebook
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Author: Emma Lazarus
Shoot em
He was shot with a “bean bag”? Isn’t that “rasis”?
Cubans finest
All he needs is luuuuv.
[Cubans finest]
Are these part of the 18.7 million immigrants who were encouraged by OBAMA not to pledge allegiance to the American flag and defend our nation?
They were starving for six days, trying to escape a death camp island, reached America, but we’re caged and denied refuge.
How the hell else are they going to act? They’re fighting for their lives. One cut himself with a machete to try and stay in our hospital. The others were no doubt trying to get arrested to stay here too - or not just get sent back to be killed in Cuba.
Just because there are fake refugees, doesn’t mean there aren’t real ones, too.
"..the complaint said.." d:^)
I agree.
You are in the wrong place. These people hate ferners and have more in common with Castro than American values.
Bean bags and pepper balls are both staples in Cuber.
Exactly
Does he get to stay?
IIUC, Cubans who reach the beach (feet dry) can stay. So why fight with the officers? They’ll just get processed and aided in resettlement, won’t they?
Oh, they were still in the boat...that’s different.
They were likely drinking saltwater. It makes you crazy.
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