video of fatal beating by U.S. border patrol

by frontera info

Thu, Jun 10, 2010 12:47PM

A grainy video from a cell phone camera that allegedly captures groans of pain emanating from a Mexican immigrant who was Tasered and beaten by U.S. border patrol agents and later died last week has surfaced on a Mexican web site.

The site Frontera.info or “Border” posted the video on YouTube along with an article that accuses border patrol agents of torturing 42 year-old Anastasio Hernández Rojas; a 20-year resident of the United States who died after he encountered the agents at the San Ysidro crossing that separates San Diego and Tijuana last week.

“Help me, help me please,” the web site says Rojas pleads on the video.

The site posted the cell phone footage taken by San Diego resident Humberto Navarrete Mendoza yesterday. Mendoza told the site several dozen people witnessed Rojas’ encounter with agents. He told the site Rojas was not resisting while border patrol agents “shocked” him and beat him.

"I see that he was defenseless," Mendoza told the site.

For more information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtdf-WRhMoU

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