A lonely Texas road, a dead border patrol officer. Trump cried murder - but was it?
Source: The Guardian
A lonely Texas road, a dead border patrol officer. Trump cried murder – but was it?
When Rogelio Martinez and a colleague were found with head injuries by the roadside politicians rushed to say it underlined the need for border security
Tom Dart in Houston
Sunday 3 December 2017 10.00 GMT
Two weeks after two US border patrol agents were found with head injuries by a drainage channel next to a freeway in remote west Texas, how one of them died remains a mystery.
At least, the late-night incident in which 36-year-old Rogelio Martinez died is a puzzle to the FBI, which is investigating.
To Donald Trump and two prominent Texas Republicans, Governor Greg Abbott and US senator Ted Cruz, the cause of death was immediately clear: murder.
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But Oscar Carrillo, the Culberson county sheriff who is based in Van Horn, a small town about 120 miles south-east of El Paso and about 30 miles from the border as the crow flies, and attended the scene, told the Dallas Morning News the officers might have been sideswiped by a large truck as they stood on the edge of a windswept road where drivers are liable to lose concentration and wander across lanes.
“From the beginning we were radioed to assist in the incident as an injury, not an assault,” he said. “That’s the way it was communicated to us.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/texas-border-patrol-death-trump-cruz-rogelio-martinez
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Chicken Little (in this case, 3 chickens) runs again! 