Agent who shot into Mexico, killed teen wants case dismissed

[Judi Lynn]

Agent who shot into Mexico, killed teen wants case dismissed
By ASTRID GALVAN, Associated Press : May 26, 2015 : Updated: May 26, 2015 2:28pm

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired shots across the U.S.-Mexico border, killing a teenager, wants a civil rights lawsuit against him dismissed on grounds that the boy was in Mexico at the time and therefore wasn't protected by the U.S. Constitution.

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In a similar case out of Texas, a federal appeals court found the family of another Mexican teen killed by an agent cannot sue in the United States.

In the latest case, the ACLU filed suit in Tucson against agent Lonnie Swartz. It sued on behalf of Araceli Rodriguez, the mother of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez.

The teen was in Nogales, Sonora, near the tall, steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico when Swartz shot him from Nogales, Arizona, on Oct. 10, 2012. An autopsy showed Elena Rodriguez was shot about 10 times.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/texas/article/Agent-who-shot-into-Mexico-killed-teen-wants-6287025.php

[peacebird]

1. Lock the agent up and throw away the key.