Shocking Video Shows Mexican Immigrant Beaten to Death By U.S. Border Patrol Agents. 1 of 2

DemocracyNow.org - A new PBS documentary exposes the tasing and beating death of a Mexican immigrant by U.S. border agents in California, and has renewed scrutiny of what critics call a culture of impunity. In May 2010, 32-year-old Anastasio Hernández Rojas was caught trying to enter the United States from Mexico near San Diego. He had previously lived in the United States for 25 years and was the father of five U.S.-born children. But instead of deportation, Hernández Rojas' detention ended in his death. A number of border officers were seen beating him, before one tasered him at least five times. During the incident, he was handcuffed and hogtied. He died shortly afterward. The agents say they confronted Hernández Rojas because he became hostile and resisted arrest. But previously undisclosed videos recorded by eyewitnesses on their cell phones show a different story. The footage was obtained by reporter John Carlos Frey and aired in a national television special last Friday night, as part of a joint investigation by the PBS broadcast ,"Need to Know," and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. Frey joins us to discuss the exposé, along with Hernández Rojas' widow, María Puga, and translator, Christian Ramírez.

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[Rumisha]

How can anyone just ignore someone who's pleading for his fucking life? This guy died-- no, this guy was MURDERED, and you sick bastards are cheering this guy's death? Fucking trolls. What a sad, meaningless, vacant existence you must occupy. Fuck, how depressing to be you.

[t0x1cn0sc0p3z]

Y DO WE SERVE THIS CONTRY WHEN WE DO THINGS AND OUR REWARD IS BIENG DISRESPECTED WE SHOULD JUST LEAVE

[t0x1cn0sc0p3z]

FUCK !

[phasung baccam]

history will repeat again

[Mexitalian21]

To all those keyboard warriors saying racial slurs I bet you afraid to say it in front of a beaner's face because you know you will get your asses kicked. :D

[quack123]

YEAH!! Kill these fucking spics!!

[rckjones9999]

This is fucked up. Poor guy.

[cbdawgpound]

i would have killed him too and i'm glad they killed his ass. keep up the good work guys!

[echounitcharlie]

Doesn't look like a beating to me. Wouldn't have happened if he never crossed illegally anyway. Don't start nothing won't be nothing.

[Cristian T.]

hope those pigs get shot