Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents rarely face repercussions for using deadly force, even when the shootings are questionable, the Arizona Republic reports. At least 42 people, including 13 Americans, have been killed by on-duty Border Patrol agents and CBP officers since 2005. The deaths range from justifiable to highly questionable, the Republic wrote. Although…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent John Wilson didn’t have to see much. “That would not be good proper police procedure,” Wilson testified after watching a surveillance tape of the deadly police encounter, the Los Angeles Times reports. Wilson provided expert testimony in the trial of two Fullerton police officers who are charged in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are accused of using excessive force and conducting illegal searches on people in southern Arizona, the Arizona Republic reports. The ACLU claims the abuses are occurring without any explanation and said scores of people have complained. The ACLU is delivering an administrative complaint Thursday morning. The complaints come just…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new report suggests reforms at Border Patrol are needed to prevent excessive use of force, NBC Latino reports. Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General generated the report at the request of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, and 15 members of Congress following media reports of an undocumented immigrant who died in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department will monitor the Miami Police Department because of several police-involved shootings over the past four years that didn’t appear to be justified, the Miami Herald reports. The review, which included police shootings from 2008 to 2011, is part of a civil rights investigation of the Miami police force. Of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors released video of a Border Patrol agent accused of beating a Mexican immigrant while in custody, CBS 8 in San Diego reports. The agent in the video was found not guilty by a jury last month on excessive force charges. The video shows Agent Luis Fonseca repeatedly choking and kicking…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An excessive force case against a Border Patrol agent goes to trial this week, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. Agent Luis E. Fonesca is accused of kicking and choking an unauthorized immigrant until he was unconscious. Prosecutors say they have a videotape that proves their case. Fonesca has pleaded not guilty…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department plans to announce it is investigating excessive force within the Cleveland Police Department, WXYC Channel 3 reports. The probe involves a police pursuit in November when Cleveland cops fired 137 bullets at an unarmed man and woman. WXYC reported that a news conference is expected today to announce the…
