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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Sat Jun 16, 2018, 12:54 PM Jun 2018

Video Shows Border Patrol SUV Hitting Native American Man, Then Driving Away

Video Shows Border Patrol SUV Hitting Native American Man, Then Driving Away

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/border-patrol-video-ohono-oodham-arizona.html

ALBUQUERQUE — Tensions flared on Friday between federal authorities in Arizona and residents of a Native American reservation straddling the border with Mexico after a video surfaced in which a Border Patrol vehicle appears to hit a man from the tribe before driving away.

The video, which was recorded on the phone of the victim, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation identified as Paulo Remes, spread quickly on social media after several tribe members and Indivisible Tohono, an organization focused on the impact of border policies, posted the footage on Twitter and Facebook.

“They just ran me over, bro,” Mr. Remes is heard saying on the video. He told The Arizona Daily Star that he was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of injuries from the incident, which took place on Tohono O’odham land about 60 miles southwest of Tucson. Mr. Remes appeared to be standing in a dirt road facing the vehicle when it made contact, knocking him to the ground.

Mr. Remes told the newspaper that the driver of the vehicle did not stop.

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Video Shows Border Patrol SUV Hitting Native American Man, Then Driving Away (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2018 OP

With the tRump regime, I wonder how far away is Soylent Green! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2018 #1

When the Government no longer honors the Rule of Law & the Social Contract... NightWatcher Jun 2018 #2

This time the Border Patrol really messed up. Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #3

So is it a prerequisite to be a jackass for getting a job in law enforcement? gtar100 Jun 2018 #4

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

1. With the tRump regime, I wonder how far away is Soylent Green! n/t

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 12:58 PM

Jun 2018

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

2. When the Government no longer honors the Rule of Law & the Social Contract...

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 01:06 PM

Jun 2018

the People will not honor it either.

When the Government stops following the rules, the People will soon follow their lead, and all of your Blue Lives garbage will go right out the window.

I know that unrest is what the Government wants, so that they can tighten the screws, and at the rate they're going, they'll get it soon.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. This time the Border Patrol really messed up.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 01:25 PM

Jun 2018

That agent better request a transfer before sundown. Not going to end well for the Agents working that area.

gtar100

(4,192 posts)

4. So is it a prerequisite to be a jackass for getting a job in law enforcement?

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 01:29 PM

Jun 2018

Assholes is too nice a word for them. *They* are the ones who need laws to get them to do the right thing. May God give them a corner of the universe all to themselves so they can leave the rest of us the fuck alone. They can live in their own delusions until they turn it all into ash. Because that's what they are doing here, except they are gleefully dragging the rest of us down with them.

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