VENEZUELA: Video shows police executing youth at point blank range (Spanish)

[Marksman_91]

Source: CNN

Un video que circula por las redes sociales y difundido por El Nuevo Herald muestra lo que parece ser el ajusticiamiento de un presunto delincuente por miembros de la policía venezolana el pasado miércoles 5 de agosto. Según una fuente con conocimiento del caso, los policías forman parte del gobierno del estado Aragua.

En la noche del jueves, el defensor del pueblo Tarek William Saab dijo a través de su cuenta en Twitter que conversó con el gobernador de Aragua Tareck El Aissami, quien "manifestó que ya los 5 presuntos asesinos del joven han sido puestos a la orden de la Fiscalía".


Read more: http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2015/08/13/en-venezuela-video-muestra-presunto-ajusticiamiento-por-parte-de-policias/

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Translation

A video circulating on social networks and spread by El Nuevo Herald shows what appears to be the execution of a suspect by members of the Venezuelan police on Wednesday August 5th. According to a source familiar with the case, the police are part of the government of Aragua state.

On Thursday night, the ombudsman of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, said through his Twitter account that he spoke with the governor of Aragua Tarek El Aissami, who "stated that five suspected murderers and the young have been made to order the prosecution ".

Wow... And some chavistas here dare say that Venezuela is a prime example of progressive state.

[geretogo]

1. It would not surprise me if the police are being paid by the CIA .

[brooklynite]

2. So you're saying the Obama Administration ordered the execution of Venezuelan civilians?

C'mon, don't be shy...

[totodeinhere]

13. The CIA has been known to conduct rogue operations before.

But I have no idea what happened in this case.

[Marksman_91]

14. No idea what happened? Cops are corrupt. That's IT!

Why the hell does every atrocity in Latin America have to be perpetrated by the CIA? It's almost like you can't accept that a leftist government can be incompetent or corrupt. It's mind-boggling.

[FLPanhandle]

3. LOL. Reply #1 blaming the CIA

[Scalded Nun]

7. The only surprise is that anyone would be surprised

They may not have anything to do with this, but gee, CIA involvement in murder in Central/South America...Who would have thought?

I see no real national interest for us, so there probably is nothing there. But the CIA acting outside of direction from our leadership should not surprise anyone anymore.

[Marksman_91]

8. Can't really tell if this is sarcastic or not n/t

[GGJohn]

16. It would not surprise me if you actually believed that crap. eom.

[freshwest]

23. It's American Exceptionalism. We control everything, everywhere! No evil happens without us!

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We are omnipotent, all powerful, all seeing, all knowing! Muahahaha!



Okay, back away from Paranoid Plaza.

[MyNameGoesHere]

4. Yeah America doesn't hold the patent on police killing people

we just do it more often and better.

[FrodosPet]

5. USA! USA! USA!

[freshwest]

24. All the better to make tasty treats for our reptilian overlords! n/t

[hack89]

12. More often?

Central and South America is the most violent region in the world with an astronomical murder rate. Police violence is also off the scale - in Brazil alone, the police murder 3,000 people annually.

[Marksman_91]

15. Sshhh, you're ruining their fantasy about LatAm being a leftist paradise free of corruption n/t

[joshcryer]

18. They took a young man out of their car...

...held his hands, and executed him next to several other bodies.

My guess it was Brazil-style street justice but it got caught on camera.

[msongs]

6. is Che! back from the dead? nt

[LuckyLib]

9. Must be a bad google translation. It should read

"five presumed assassins of the young man have been indicted."

[Igel]

10. Let's fix that second paragraph, shall we.

I'm no lover of the Venezuelan state, to be sure, but that translation's mangled.

En la noche del jueves, el defensor del pueblo Tarek William Saab dijo a través de su cuenta en Twitter que conversó con el gobernador de Aragua Tareck El Aissami, quien "manifestó que ya los 5 presuntos asesinos del joven han sido puestos a la orden de la Fiscalía".


"Thursday night the public defender Tarek William Saab said, using his Twitter account, that he'd spoken with Aragua state governor Tareck El Aissami, who "stated that the 5 who allegedly murdered the young man had been referred to the chief prosecutor."

I'm fudging a bit on the "referred to the chief prosecutor"--it might mean a warrant's been issued already or turned over to their custody. "Ambiguity is your friend".


But it's clear that the police are presumed by the governor to be acting entirely on their own, without sanction from the central government. (The governor may have his head up his ass, but that's not obvious from what he said.)

[brooklynite]

11. Or..they were following orders, got caught on video and were hung out to dry...

[joshcryer]

20. I doubt something like this was "ordered."

The police in Venezuela (and Brazil and a lot of other Latin American countries with high crime rates) are just thugs. Of course, they do get shot at random just for being police, to have their guns stolen from them, so them being thugs isn't surprising.

Odds are they had "suspicions" that these street kids were gang members (malandros) and they just wanted to dispense with them privately. Unfortunately for them it was recorded. And now they're going to wind up dead in a Venezuelan prison shortly (if they can't pull off a massive bribe and get out of dodge).

Whether mayors or not are aware of this or turn a blind eye to it I can't say for sure, but surely there is talk about this sort of thing happening. But to think as if it is ordered is a mighty big stretch. The risk is too high. The fallout from this is massive enough as it is.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Fox Latino "News" has printed a story from Spain's right-wing E.F.E.:

Venezuelan prosecutors to probe killings by police
Published August 14, 2015/
EFE

Two prosecutors will lead an investigation into the role of police in the violent deaths of four people in the northern state of Aragua, the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office said Friday.

"The death of the four men would have occurred during a procedure carried out on Aug. 5 by police officers in Aragua state" in the town of San Vicente, the AG office said in a statement.

For the past few hours a video lasting around 2 minutes has gone viral on social networks showing three bodies on the ground and several Aragua police officers getting out of a red SUV with a young man in custody.

Soon afterwards a blast is heard and the youth, who had been restrained by two cops, falls to the ground. Later more shots are heard and one of the policemen is seen pouring water on the detainee.

More:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/08/14/venezuelan-prosecutors-to-probe-killings-by-police/

[freshwest]

19. Should be some street protests over this soon. n/t

[NobodyHere]

21. It looks like the USA and Venezuela share some common ground.

[hack89]

22. The difference is they are a much more violent country than us

Their crime and murder rates dwarf ours. There is no real comparison.