PHOENIX | The mother of an unarmed 19-year-old Arizona man fatally shot in the back by a U.S. Border Patrol agent has sued the federal government and the agent.
Guadalupe Guerrero argues that the shooting of her son, Carlos La Madrid, was “an appalling use of excessive force” because her son didn’t have a weapon, had his back to the agent and was posing no threat.
Carolina Sanchez, 20, carries a sign that reads “no more Border Patrol Violence” in Spanish, Thursday, June 7, 2012 in El Paso, Texas. About 200 protesters marched from downtown El Paso to the border where a 15-year-old was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent two years ago today. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)
Guerrero told The Associated Press on Monday that the Border Patrol had no right to take her son’s life.
A Border Patrol agent identified in police reports as Lucas Tidwell shot La Madrid three times, twice in the back and once in the back of his thigh, as he climbed a ladder on the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Douglas in southeastern Arizona on March 21, 2011.
Stop breaking the law and this wouldn’t happen, ever!
I’ve watched videos from the border and the Mexicans lining up and shouting and taunting the border patrol with jeers and cheers, they finally did something to the law breakers.
BUILD the fence, it was ‘funded’ years ago, not a ‘virtual’ fence a big stone, razor wire wall. keep them out. Our politicians are too worried about votes to do the right thing, the ACLU thinks there shoud be no borders (try going into Mexico illegally) while we the people suffer the consequence.