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(excerpt from) TVNZ
Mexico says US border agent killed boy
Published: 4:53PM Thursday January 06, 2011 Source: Reuters
A US Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said.
Ramses Barron was found dead outside a hospital in Nogales, Sonora, in the early hours on Wednesday with a wound from a bullet fired by a US Border Patrol agent, Sonora state police said citing witnesses…
Americans, especially American parents, should be frightened, when our law enforcement shoot at 17-year-olds. I am especially concerned about language in the media — which seems to be a kind of defense of the government and border patrol — that tries to justify the killing by claiming that this young man may have thrown rocks, and was doing things “under cover of night.”
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