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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/buermann/statuses/115872416569357009">josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 06:01:06 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@buermann" title="buermann@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/27199-48-20260103042741.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="josh buermann" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">josh buermann</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@buermann/115872044971154197" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>"according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths... commissioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection...  completed in February 2013 by the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit research and policy organization in Washington that works closely with law enforcement agencies... some border agents stood in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to open fire"</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140304043818/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227,0,4841750,full.story#axzz2uXP4tOPZ" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20140304043818/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227,0,4841750,full.story#axzz2uXP4tOPZ</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6055273#notice-11925480">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-01-14T06:01:06+09:00" title="Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 06:01:06 JST">about 7 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@buermann/115872416569357009" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@buermann/115872416569357009">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5675926">Mexican authorities have complained for years that U.S. border agents who kill Mexicans are rarely disciplined and that the results of investigations are not made public for years. Critics warn that more deaths or abuses are inevitable unless stricter rules are imposed to limit use of lethal force."There needs to be a level of accountability if you want to change the culture and the pattern," said Christopher Wilson, an expert on U.S.-Mexico relations at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington. "People are being killed that don't need to be killed."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/872/398/036/731/201/original/8c04bed1fa61daf4.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/872/398/036/731/201/original/8c04bed1fa61daf4.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5675927">"It should be recognized that a half-ounce (200-grain) bullet is unlikely to stop a 4,000-pound moving vehicle, and if the driver … is disabled by a bullet, the vehicle will become a totally unguided threat," it says. "Obviously, shooting at a moving vehicle can pose a risk to bystanders including other agents."The authors recommended training agents "to get out of the way… as opposed to intentionally assuming a position in the path of such vehicles."They also recommended that the Border Patrol adopt police policies used in most U.S. jurisdictions, which bar officers from firing at a moving vehicle unless deadly force is being used "by means other than a moving vehicle."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/872/402/880/383/308/original/33ac482b0cb61dc7.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/872/402/880/383/308/original/33ac482b0cb61dc7.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5675928">In September 2012, Guillermo Arevalo Pedroza, a 36-year-old construction worker, was shot and killed during a picnic with his family on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. A Border Patrol agent who fired his gun from a patrol boat said he had been pelted with rocks, officials said.Mexican authorities denounced the shooting as "unacceptable" and said Pedroza was not trying to cross the border.A month later, Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was shot and killed near Nogales, Mexico, by a Border Patrol agent who fired through a fence. The autopsy report said Rodriguez was shot eight times in the back. The Border Patrol said the agent, whom it did not identify, was hit with rocks when he responded to reports of drug smugglers climbing the border fence.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/872/408/974/834/691/original/82012c532799e366.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/872/408/974/834/691/original/82012c532799e366.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: web.archive.org</div><h5><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140304043818/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227,0,4841750,full.story#axzz2uXP4tOPZ">Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report</a></h5><div> from <span>Los Angeles Times</span></div></header><div>WASHINGTON — Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 06:01:06 JST josh buermann
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