Posted on 01/17/2011 2:17:14 PM PST by epithermal
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (Reuters) – The parents of a Mexican teenager allegedly killed last year by a bullet fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent across the Rio Grande river, on Monday sued the U.S. government for $25 million.
The U.S. Border Patrol says Sergio Hernandez Guereca, 15, was pelting U.S. agents with rocks from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande river last June when Border Patrol agents on the U.S. side shot him to death.
But Bob Hilliard, attorney for the Mexican family, said today that the boy was the victim of "brutality" on the part of the federal agents, and was "shot in cold blood."
"We have seen brutality captured on video tape that stuns us as a country, when we think that law enforcement are trained and should not do that," Hilliard said.
The incident was videotaped by several individuals and was broadcast on the Spanish-language Univision television network, and posted on the internet. It has come to represent the lawless nature of the violence along the Texas Mexico border. It is unclear from the grainy cell phone video whether the boy was throwing rocks at the time.
"Part of this lawsuit seeks to require the government to turn over the border camera video and see it and get a better look at it," he said.
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Ping!
Question: What will $25 million do to bring their child back?
Wasn’t this the kid that was a drug runner?
Well there you go.
I hope his death serves a purpose.
Don't chunk rocks at the Gringo Policias.
To this family - which allowed their kid to break the law as a coyote - 25 million might be worth losing a kid. They might even do it for far, far less.
How can these people, with a straight face, accuse us of police brutality? /rhet.
Any judge who entertains this lawsuit should be taken out.
Any jury that awards money in this case should be taken out.
Then we also have an upper limit here on the price of their souls.
Send these pos mexes a bill for 50 million in damages.
LLS
What happens when you chuck rocks at the Federales? Probably the same thing.
I don’t feel sorry for this family. They reap what they sow. If we can sue across the border, then let’s sue their asses to the barn door....recoup all the money we have spent on capturing and processing illegal aliens.
I can see the feds going for an out of court “settlement” for $24,999,999.99. It’s not their money.
I have never quite got the throwing rocks at someone who has a gun.
Why does that statement have a sarc tag on it?
That will probably be the case.
Um... They would invade Texas.
Wait, hold my beer. I have an idea.
What happens when you chuck rocks at the Federales? Probably the same thing.
What happens when you don’t pay off the Federales when they stop you? The same thing...
Certainly it wasn’t his “potential lifetime earning potential” assessed as damages. In Mexico that would be more like $4.19.
A lookout / spotter ...... Now he’s a good spot so look out where ya step.....
If they are going to sue the government now is the time to do it. They will never again find a friendlier adversary.
We should have long ago sued the Mexican government for not doing anything to stop the crossings. Although, I frankly don't know what they could have done. They lost control of the country years ago.
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