Border Patrol Alters Account Of Guatemalan Woman's Death The agency canceled a Friday news conferenc

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Border Patrol Alters Account Of Guatemalan Woman’s Death
The agency canceled a Friday news conference and instead issued a new statement.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/border-patrol-alters-account-of-guatemalan-woman-shooting_us_5b09daf6e4b0568a880c05a2


LATINO VOICES 05/26/2018 09:26 pm ET
Border Patrol Alters Account Of Guatemalan Woman’s Death
The agency canceled a Friday news conference and instead issued a new statement.
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By Carla Herreria
A Border Patrol agent fatally shot Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, an indigenous woman from Guatemala, wh
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A Border Patrol agent fatally shot Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, an indigenous woman from Guatemala, while responding to reports of illegal activity in Rio Bravo, Texas.

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U.S. immigration authorities have altered their account of the Border Patrol’s recent fatal shooting of Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, a 20-year-old woman who had traveled from Guatemala to Texas to help pay for her education.

After the shooting on Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection released a statement saying a lone Border Patrol agent was responding to a report of illegal activity near a culvert in Rio Bravo, Texas, when he “came under attack by multiple subjects using blunt objects.”
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Two days later, the agency canceled a scheduled news conference about the shooting and instead released a new statement with a different version of events, according to CNN.

The new statement, issued Friday, had no mention of “blunt objects” and claimed the agent ordered a group of immigrants to “get on the ground,” but they ignored his commands and “instead rushed him.”...................................

The second statement also referred to Gómez Gonzáles as “one member of the group” instead of “assailant,” the term the agency used on Wednesday.
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