Posted on 09/14/2013 12:58:48 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
SAN DIEGO Lawyers for the family of a Mexican man who died in a confrontation with U.S. border law enforcement officers in 2010 said in a court filing this week that agents changed and embellished their version of the incident to depict that he was combative and violent.
Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, 42, was beaten and shot with a Taser while handcuffed in an area of the San Ysidro Port of Entry the night of May 28, 2010. The incident involved as many as 20 agents and officers from the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and led to an outcry by activists over treatment of individuals by border law enforcement.
Hernandez Rojas died in a hospital three days later. The medical examiner said he suffered a heart attack while being restrained, and had an enlarged heart and traces of methamphetamine in his system. His family is suing the officers and the government in federal court over the death.
In previous court filings, the officers depicted Hernandez Rojas as truculent, then aggressive, and eventually fiercely combative.
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