Border agency clears employees in 4 shooting incidents
Source: Associated Press
Border agency clears employees in 4 shooting incidents
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press
Updated 9:14 pm, Thursday, June 30, 2016
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection found that employees acted properly when they fired guns in four incidents dating back to 2012 — including two that left two people dead.
The findings were released Thursday by the agency's National Use of Force Review Board, which was established in December 2014 amid widespread criticism that the nation's largest law enforcement agency was slow to investigate such incidents and lacked transparency.
The cases involve a Border Patrol agent who fired from Texas at rock-throwers in Mexico, a heavily armed murder suspect who was fatally shot as he fled a Texas house when a Border Patrol agent and other law enforcement officers opened fire, a Border Patrol agent who fired at rock-throwers in Arizona and an Office of Air and Marine crew that fired warning shots and crashed into a vessel off the Southern California coast carrying immigrants, one of whom died.
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Customs and Border Protection says officials have fired their guns in 223 incidents from the 2011 to 2015 fiscal years, including 28 last year. Rock attacks on agents have been among the most controversial, with critics saying agents have overreacted and defenders saying stones can be deadly weapons.
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