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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, This is Christina and Carmen and this is

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the Spooky Tales, the podcast for all things as spooky,

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true crime, hunted places, myths, legends in Latin America. And

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I have to warn everyone right now, today's case involves

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one of the biggest criminals, because we can't be a

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true crime podcast if we don't talk about one of

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the biggest criminal gangs in the US. Yeah, one of

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the most violent criminal gangs in the United States who

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has operated with impunity and committed atrocities and terror across

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the United States and even past the United States. So

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I'm combining the two the two gangs, Oh, we're counting

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them together. They actually acted together for this case. So yeah,

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across United States Ice and Border Patrol. I was saying, yes,

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we are talking about them. Yeah, yeah, we are. So

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if that's something that you can't hear right now, understandable

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skip this episode. It's so infuriating, especially given today's horrible news.

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Today is January seventh, twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six.

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What day it was? It's not twenty twenty five anymore. Yeah,

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so today's January fifth, January seventh, twenty twenty six. I

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already said sorry. Seventh. Anyway, we found out today dot

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Ice shot a woman, Renee and Nicole Good, thirty seven

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years old. They shot her point blank in the face

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today in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yeah. Yes, and today's case. Actually,

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you will see the similarities between the case we're talking

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about today and what happened today the time of recording.

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But again, if you're not in the right headspace to

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hear it, skip this episode come back to it later.

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It is an important case to familiarize yourself with. But again,

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infuriating completely. Yeah. Also, sorry if I sound weird, I

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just got in middleline. So just if I thank you

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said everyone out there. I feel like I feel like

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I don't, but whatever I think you do. Okay, let's

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get into this. On May twenty eighth, twenty ten, a

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man was heard screaming a blood curdling scream on the

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Sandy Zero point of Entry when i'sis saw a group

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of Border Patrol agents gigging up on a man tasing

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him and when they attempted to intervene, their phones were

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taken and they were threatened. According to the Border Patrol,

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they were actually saving this man's life. He was actually

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the one heard in himself until he died. But before

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we get to that day, let's talk about the man.

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Anatasio and Nandez Rocaz was born on May second, nineteen

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sixty eight, in San Luis, Potosi. He had eight siblings,

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of which he was the third oldest. When Anatasio was fifteen,

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he immigrated to the United States to find work and

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help support his family, and he settled in San Diego, California,

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where years later, at the age of twenty one, he

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met Maria de Jesutzbuga, who would later become his wife.

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They went on to have five kids over the course

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of twenty years, Yami, Daisy, Fabian, and twins Danielle and Daniela.

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His friends described him as fun and jobio. He was

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a loving, attentive father, active in his children's lives. He

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planned family out into the beach park, the movies, He

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colored with his kids, and they tried to eat meals

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together as often as a cut as a family. He

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worked as a whole a little and picked up work

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in construction and demolition when he could, but on May tenth,

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twenty ten, unable to make ends meet, his desperation drove

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him to shoplift food from a grocery store. According to

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a PBS documentary titled Crossing the Line at the Border,

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he stole steak and tequila for a Mother's Day celebration. Yeah,

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maintenth is Mother's Day, so it makes sense. Yeah, and

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you know what, I die, I don't care that he's stole.

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I fully don't care that he's stole. And I don't

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care who has an opinion about us not caring that

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he stole. I don't give not one fuck. He was

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arrested and once in custody, his immigration status was checked,

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and after law enforcement found out he was undocumented, he

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was deported to Mexico two weeks later on May twenty eighth,

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and Asasio tried to re enter the United States with

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his brother. I mean, of course, this is yet another

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thing that does not matter to me, I know, And

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that's what I'm saying, Like, of course he did. His

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family was here, his life was here. Yeah, they should

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just let him in. I mean I'm saying, and again,

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I do not care who is mad at us saying that. No, truly, Like,

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go argue with yourself. It's like one time we got

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our Spotify comment that was like and what are people

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supposed to do, or what is the US supposed to do?

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Just let everyone in. I was like, I really don't care.

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I don't care. I think that they should let anybody

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whose countries they have fucked up in. I mean, and

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I am in agreeance. And that's almost the whole world.

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And whose fault is that? The United States? Yeah, that's

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not my fault. That's when it ta his fault. Yeah,

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I truly don't like. They're like, oh, you sound so

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dumb for saying borders should be open, and I was like,

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I don't care, and I will continue to repeat that.

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But Anastasio was quickly apprehended and taken to the true

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La Vista border patrol station and driven to the deportation

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gate at sanny Cidro. This is also known as the

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way Ski two section of the sanny carl point of entry.

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From watching the documentary and I'm talking about the HBO

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documentary Critical Incident Death at the Border. From watching the documentary,

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it looked like they started, or it seemed like the

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physical abuse started at the point of entry. But from

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reading the complaint which we'll talk about later filed with

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in International Commission, it actually began at the border station

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there at the border station, Anastasio was beaten, tortured, and

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suffocated by a border patrol agent. It began at the

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border station, but we'll get into that what happen there

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a little bit later. But once he was taken to

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the sunny Zerol point of entry, Anasassio was beaten, tortured,

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and suffocated by Border patrol agents until he stopped breathing.

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Anasasio was handcuffed during this and despite being unarmed and

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physically incapable of fighting back, border patrol agents punched, kicked,

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dragged taste, and hogg tight Anasassio. If that wasn't enough,

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they also denied an Asasio medical care. An Assassio sustained

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severe injuries, including five broken ribs and hemorrhagene of internal organs.

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A few days later, on May thirty first, twenty ten,

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an Assassio succumbed to his injuries and was taken off

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live support. He was forty two years old at the

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time of his death. From there, the Border Patrol tried

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to cover everything up, and a years long battle ensued,

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which uncovered a shadow organization within the Border Patrol and

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culminated at an international human rights court. Now we were

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to ask the Border Patrol agent what led to an

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Asasio's death. They would say that it was actually Anastasio's

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own fault that he died. Agents involved in his murder

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stated they were trying to save him from himself. Their

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literal words that they had to tie his hand behind

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his back because he was hurting himself and all the

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injuries that he succumbed to were of his own doing.

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So what happened on that day, it actually took years

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to be together. His family was left in the dark

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for a long time. They had to filed a lawsuit

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and then another to just get information. Their lawyer, Jean Iredale,

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requested evidence, which Border Patrol failed to turn over. They

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also failed Bord Patrol also failed to call San Diego PD,

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which should have been contacted the day of the incident

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as it happened. Really, instead, their own team called the

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Critical Incident Team CIT, swept in and got rid of

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all incriminating evidence, which is their job or was to

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cover up things done by Border Patrol and or was

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it just Border Patrol or his ice too from what

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I knew this Border Patrol, But more than that later,

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Let's get into the day first, Like we mentioned, earlier.

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Anastasio was apprehended on May twenty eight, twenty ten, and

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then transported to the Chuo Lavisa Border Patrol Facility and

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detention Center, which we'll just refer to either as detention

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center or to Larisa facility, either one. He was searched

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and then directed by Border Patrol agent Gabriel Ducing. The

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ucing Gabriel du Coin to throw his water away instead

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of throwing the bottle in the trash, Anastasio poured out

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the water from his jug into the trash can, and

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this made officer to Coin angry that he didn't just

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throw the bottle away, that he emptied it, so then

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the officer slapped the water jug out of Anastasio's hand,

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hands pushed Anastasio into a wall and then repeatedly kicked

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his ankles to make Anasasio stand with his ankles apart,

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but from the moment he was pushing into the wall

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and Assassio was already standing and with his ankle's apart,

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But the agent kept kicking and kicking, and Astasia cried out,

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why are you doing this to us? Why are you

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hitting us? We haven't done anything wrong, to which officer

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Ducoin replied, you don't want to be beaten. Then he

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handcuffed Anastasio and took him to an interview room. In

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that room, Anastasio complained that Officer Ducoin injured his ankle

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and that it was hurting, especially because he had previously

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broken this ankle. He also requested to appear before an

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immigration judge, but all of his complaints on requests were dismissed,

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and according to Border Patrol policy, officer Ducoin was supposed

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to inform his supervisor that Anasasio had a complain about

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mistreatment and request medical attention. He did neither. An Aastasio

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was then taken to a processing area where he was

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handcuffed to a bench. There, he requested medical treatment again.

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He asked for a phone call, and he attempted to

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assert his right to appear before an immigration judge, and

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once again complained about the mistreatment that he was receiving.

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After sitting on that bench handcuffed through hours, the facility supervisor,

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officer Ismael Finn, spoke with Anastasio, who once again requested

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medical care and complained about mistreatment. The supervisor dismissed these

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complaints again and then told his agents to immediately remove

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Anastasio from the United States, so agent Philip Krasile Wicks

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and get Real Ducoin were the ones transporting Anastasio. These

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two agents had already up to that point expressed anger

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and disdain towards Anastasio. They later not at this point,

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but they would later say Anastasio did not behave like

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a quote typical alien end quote during processing, that he

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did not comply like a typical alien, but instead because

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instead of quietly facing the wall when instructed to do so,

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Anastasio talked loudly, looked directly at the agents and complained

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about the treatment he was being subjected to, just because

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he spoke up about being hurt, like they want people

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to shut up and take it. Yeah, they both felt

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that Anastasio did not grant them the respect they deserved.

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You deserve it zero respect. You deserve full disrespect from

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anybody that's ses you. Yeah, they considered Anastasio disrespectful and problematic,

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and that's why he had been arranged for immediate removal,

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as opposed to his brother, who remained at the facility.

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Prior to entering the agent's vehicle for transportation, Anathasio was

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already seen limping, and that can be seen in the footage. Yes,

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the agents took Anastasio to an area known as Whiskey Too.

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Deportation Gate. It is an enclosed area and only federal

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officials have access to it. So when they arrived at

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Whiskey Too, the pair of agents removed Anastasso's handcuffs. When

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they removed his handcuffs, they stated that Anastasio lowered his

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hands down to his hips instead of raising them to

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the top of his head as he had been told

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to do. They also stated he was moving around too much.

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And so these two things were like acts of violence

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to the Border patrol agents. It was their excuse in

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their reason to act the way they did exactly. And

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so then they grabbed Anastasio, and according to them, a

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quote struggle ensued end a quote. So two not border patrol,

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but two Ice agents Andre Piligrino and Harinto Narra and

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Nessink intervened. These Ice officers you their steel batons to

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hate Anastasio, and their blows struck Anastasio in the chest.

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The Ice agents continued to hit Anastassio until the pair

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of Border patrol officers were like stop stop, oh, I

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didn't know that, mm hmm. And what they claimed happened

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doesn't add up. They have contradicting statements because they're made up, yes,

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because they're lying. Ice agents Pilogrino and Nara and nes

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Singh stated that Anastasio punched all four agents. Mind you,

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footage shows that he's handcuffed this whole time. We at

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this point, he had not been handcuffed yet. Oh ic

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ic Yeah, yeah, they unhandcuffed him. But however, it's one

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guy and for law enforcement personnel. So that's what they claimed,

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that he had punched all four of them. Border Patrol

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agents to Coin and krasile Wigs stated that Anastasio did

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not punch any of them. Each one of them stated

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that all five of them then fell to the ground

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after Anastasio punched them, and that Anastasio had landed on

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his stomach, and that's when Border Patrol agent Derek Llewellyn arrived.

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When they were all on the ground, that's when he

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Llewellyn handcuffed Anastassio's hands behind him behind his back. Then

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agents Decoin, krasau Wicks and Pellegrino pressed on him while

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Anastasio was fased down. They held him by the legs,

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the waist and his side. This is when Anastasio began

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to cry out for help in Spanish. This drew people

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this is when the crowd began to record the incident. Meanwhile,

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two more Border Patrol agents arrived at the scene. They

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were Alan Boutwell and Kurt Sower, and these two joined

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the other five. So now there's seven trying to force

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Anastassio into the backseat of their suv vehicle, which they

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couldn't do because Anastasio had his feet against the door.

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Then they dragged Anastasio, who was still hot ncuoked, behind

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the suv. They placed him face down on the ground. Again,

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can I interject really quick with something? So I feel

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like some people might question, like, oh, well, why was

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he resist? Obviously you know this is what they say.

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Why was he resisting? Why wouldn't you put his feet

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against the door like that? But maybe in his head

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it's like a like a response fear response. Right, he

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probably thought and they these people did, right. He probably

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thought they were going to kill him. So he's like,

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why would I get in the car with them. Right,

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these agents already had it out for him from the station,

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and then these two are the ones instructed to take

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him out. I would be fearing for my life too.

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They were already abusing him at the station. Yeah, So

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now they dragged him behind the suv. They placed him

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face down on the ground again. Then, according to witnesses,

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they kneeled on the back of Anastasio's neck and his

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lower back while other agents continued to punch and step

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on his back and his head. According to witnesses, Anastasio

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never tried to harm the officers. And then two more

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vehicles arrived and I'm like, how many people is enough?

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Like this is just out of control. Yeah. One of

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the officers from this pair of vehicles got out of

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the vehicle, ran straight to Anastasio, who was still on

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the ground, and kicked him hard like a soccer kick,

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is how the witnesses described it. This is a fucking

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game to them. Yeah, no, they truly they And even

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now there's reports of ICE agents who literally like they

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view everything like as a game, Like they kill people,

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they harm people, and they laugh and then they know

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that it's gonna get go viral on social media and

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they're like excited about the potential of going viral. Yeah.

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Then Border Patrol agent Jerry Valles began to yell stop resisting,

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even though at this point Anastasio was handcuffed and not

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moving at all. And from that video there's like people screaming,

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like when it's it's saying he's on the ground, he's

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not moving. What do you mean, stop resisting? Yes, more

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agents have arrived by now, so now there's somewhere between

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fifteen to twenty five Border Patrol and Ice on the scene.

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Jerry Valles then warned the rest of the officers that

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he was going to use his taser. The group of

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officers then surrounded Anastasio, partially blocking the view of the

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eyewitnesses who were up on the bridge. However, someone did

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manage to record this and capture as Jerry Vallis tasted

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Anastasio multiple times while Anastasio was on the ground in

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a fetal position, still handcuffed. Border Patrol agent Jerry Valez

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used his taser at least four times, and this was

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proven by using the taser's log This is a program

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on the taser itself that records every time it's used

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and for how long. And according to that log, the

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first two shots for five seconds, the third was thirteen seconds,

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and the fourth was twelve seconds long. And at least

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two of those shocks were successful. The other two might

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have been not like success not hit him hm. The

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last shock was done in drivesten mode, which means direct

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contact without probes the taser's probes, and so the taser

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is then pressed directly against the skin. And when in

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drivesten mode, a taser should never be used on the head,

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back of the neck, the trachia, or the chest. And

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if you guess that officer Valles uses taser in drivestnd

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mode directly on on Astasio's chest, you would be correct.

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That is exactly what he did. Anastasio then convulse until

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the taser was removed. And there is a recording of this.

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There's a recording of all of this taking place. It's

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quite terrible. I'm not priority. Yeah, I will not be

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playing in an audio of that at all. Yeah, there

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was links in the show notes if you want to

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look at it again. It is quite horrible to hear,

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but you hear these desperate screens In Spanish, no no

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no qita, no the me no, no, no, ma, ma

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madre and in English, what did I do? Help me? Please,

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help me? You're treating me like an animal. No, no, no,

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take him off me, no mom, mother, Just these desperate

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cries again, and I'm like, you have to see someone

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as an object, as trash in order to hear these

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please and not stop. And so it doesn't matter the

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amount of training that they do, like they dehumanize migrants

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and brown people and anyone opposing them now at this point,

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as we have seen from today's news as not as humans,

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and so any police to humanity, it doesn't matter because

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they don't see you as equal to them, and so

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they just treat you however they want, yes, exactly, having

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the ability to ignore please like this, it cannot be reformed.

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There is no reforming this organization. As we have said

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time and time again. And between Anastasio's cries for help,

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officers can be heard yelling stop resisting, while the crowd

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is yelling leave him alone. He's not resisting. Why are

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you using exact excessive force? He is not resisting. And

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these people's screams sound desperate. They are watching someone be murdered. Yeah,

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After the final incident, of the taser being used, officers

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swarmed Anastasio and pressed him down with knees on his

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head and his back. As they did this, they also

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punched him repeatedly in the ribs again online video. At

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some point, they pulled his pants down and zip tied

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his ankles together, howg tying him. After they howg tied

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him like this, they all stood up and they nudged

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him so kicked him with their feet and Anastasio at

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this point was not moving at all. After they realized

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he wasn't moving at all, they still waited two more

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minutes before beginning CPR. Fifteen minutes after this, an ambulance

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arrived and after some back and forth, was finally able

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to actually attend to him and put him in the

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ambulance and take him to the Chula Vista Hospital. At

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the hospital, the extent of his injuries became apparent. There

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were bruises pretty much all over his body, bruises and

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cuts everywhere. He had five broken ribs, visible taser marks,

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one on one of his butt cheeks as well, so

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his brain had gone without oxygen for eight minutes. At

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some point during the repeated tasing and beating, he had

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a heart attack. At the hospital, he was diagnosed with

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a noxic brain injury, which means death of brain cells

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due to lack of oxygen. He was on life support

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for a little bit until he went into a sister

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le also called cardiac standstill, which most of us would

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recognize as flatlining. He was pronounced dead at four thirty

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pm on May thirty first, twenty ten, and while in

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the hospital, border patrol was guarding his room. Oh, I

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was gonna ask if you are I don't know if

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bringing against this later, but in the documentary they Maria

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talks about how the police went to inform her that

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Anassasio was in the hospital, but all they told her

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was that he had gone into a fight. Oh, yes,

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that is in my notes. Ya okay, So yeah, in

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the hospital, border patrol was guarding his room and only

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allowed family to see him after the Mexican consulate and

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immigrant rights activists got involved. Before that, they did not

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let Maria, his wife, or Bernardo, his brother, into the room,

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and they had told her when they told her that

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he was in the hospital, they had only told her

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that he had been in a fight and nothing else. So,

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of course, when she was finally able to enter the room.

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The state in which she found her husband was truly

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shocking because of Border Patrol having guarded the room for

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so long, only Maria and two of the oldest kids

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were able to see him before he died, and even then,

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these kids' last image of their father was traumatizing. I

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saw the image of him in the hospital and it's impactful.

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It's hard to look at he looks, he's in a

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terrible condition, and his children, only two of them could

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see and actually see him and say goodbye, but still

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seeing this is traumatizing. The youngest three didn't have a

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chance to say goodbye. And before we get into the

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autopsy and what his death certificate said was the cause

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of death, let's talk about what was supposed to happen.

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After Anastasio had been taken to the hospital. The San

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Diego Police Department Homicide Unit should have been informed of

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what took place so that our criminal investigation could begin.

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This didn't happen. Border Patrol didn't inform SDPD of the

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incident until late morning in May twenty ninth, and Border

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Patrol and sdpt's initial reports described the Nastasio as a suspect,

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and the officers as victims of battery. Bullshit, how do

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you haven't describe a man in the hospital as the

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so crazy suspect. Yeah. A full day after the incident,

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SDPD secured the crime scene and took witness statements, which

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were all from Border patrol and ICE agents. These interviews

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took less than fifteen minutes, and not even all the

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agents involved were interviewed. And this includes the two that

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ICE agents that had arrived to Coin and the other

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one that had arrived and started hitting in with the batons.

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They weren't interviewed. They weren't no, okay, yeah, and their

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names were kept hitten for a very long time. Years yes, years. Yeah,

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it's literally until the civil lawsuit. Not even Actually I

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didn't think it was the when the DOJ started investigating,

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when the names were finally revealed, if I'm remembering right, well,

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I had an order of protection, So then was it

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the civil laws sophistication? I think it was a civil lawsuit. Okay,

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we'll get into this. Yeah. Also, while iceen Border patrols

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were beating and tasing Anastasio, they had calls for more backup.

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This backup then went onto the pedestrian bridge where people

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were shouting at them to stop, and they confiscated cameras

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and cell phones. And the San Diego Police Department didn't

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bother taking statements from these officers who did the confiscating,

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So they were not interviewed, And of course neither were

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the witnesses of the civilian witnesses who saw this. No,

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none of them were interviewed at first. Within days of

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Anastasio's death, the media was publishing articles referring to Anastasio

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as quote violent and combat Oh my god, I didn't

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know that. Yeah. And these articles also mentioned drugs or

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mental disorders playing a role in his death. And are

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you going to get into the autopsy? Yes, okay, And

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these were lies. Of course. They tried to say he

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was on meth, right, and that's what caused a heart attack. No,

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And the thing they were counting as meth was a

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medication given to him at the hostspital. Yeah, to treat him,

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but to bullshit. Yes. Then just several days later, on

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June ninth, Umberto navare Mendoza posted videos of the attack

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on Anastasio, as well as an audio recording of all

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of it. He had witnessed the attack and managed to

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hide his recording device from the officers who were confiscating

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all of them. Once the video was out, that's when

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the a s DPD actually took witness statements from civilians

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who saw everything from the bridge. Before that, they hadn't

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talked to any of them, and local press had also

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been reporting eyewitness accounts before as DPD even tried to

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reach out to witnesses who saw what happened. Umberto himself

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and two others were interviewed as part of the San

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Diego Police Department's investigation, and then in July of twenty ten,

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they referred the case to the US Attorney's Office in

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San Diego, who then, I guess just sat on it.

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I believe in that documentary they mentioned this and that

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the the choes to not prosecute right, which is sitting

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on it, right not to do anything about it. Okay,

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that makes sense. And right after he died, an Assassa's

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family had tried contacting the Civil Rights Division of the

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Department of Justice. The DOJ refused to provide his family

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with any information about the investigation. The family continued to

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attempt to contact did DJ through a representative throughout the

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rest of twenty ten and twenty eleven. Then on April twentieth,

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twenty twelve, PBS, the very same PBS who is losing

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funding or is like officially out of funding, Yeah, as

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a result of this current administration. But local PBS places

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are still operating, Yes, but yeah, they lost their main

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source of funding, This very same PBS. They released a

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video of Border Patrol and Ice, you know, together beating

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Anastasio and the servicing of this video. It took a

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lot of work. Reporter John Carlos Frak, who has spent

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his whole career reporting on Board Patrol, he began to

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look into Anastasio's case shortly after his death, and he,

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like everyone else, noticed that there was little to no

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information from official sources. So he began to look for witnesses,

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and it took him a month of investigating to find

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a witness who had the video, but was afraid to

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come forward at first. She was even too scared to

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show him the video and instead she chose to just

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describe what happened. And I mean, who can blame her?

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She was only twenty two and she was scared. She

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saw them be a man with no justification, no mercy.

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Of course, she was scared exactly, and she was actually

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visiting San Diego. She's a Seattle local. Oh, I didn't know,

469
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,680
And it's in the PBS documentary because she's in it.

470
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,519
She's not anonymous anymore and she's in the PBS documentary.

471
00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:43,000
I'm going to watch that. But yeah, she's a Seattle

472
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,279
local visiting San Diego. And she was walking across the

473
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:47,880
bridge and she was like, I heard sounds that someone

474
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:51,640
was dying, someone was begging for help, and she took

475
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,759
out her camera and began to record, and she's in

476
00:31:54,759 --> 00:31:56,799
the video. She can be heard yelling like leave him

477
00:31:56,799 --> 00:32:01,559
alone too. And she saw border patrol lining everyone up

478
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:04,640
who was on the bridge and like take their phones.

479
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,519
And she at the last minute removed her as D card,

480
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,400
put it in her pocket and handed her phone over

481
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,240
and that's why she still had the footage. And it

482
00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:18,960
took John two years to convince her to release the video,

483
00:32:19,119 --> 00:32:21,119
and when he finally got it, it was sent on

484
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,599
a disk and an envelope with no return address. Like

485
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,160
that's how scared she was, yes, exactly, and yeah, the

486
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,519
video shows what we shared earlier. It shows the officers

487
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:35,559
screaming keep walking to bystanders. They're ganging up on him.

488
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,559
There's over fifteen of them. It shows him on the

489
00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:42,599
ground the whole time, contradicting officers were yelling that he

490
00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:48,240
stood up, tried to kick them. There's agents yelling quit resisting,

491
00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:53,519
and he's just on the ground. And yeah, it's showing

492
00:32:53,519 --> 00:32:56,559
them piling up on him, punching him, grabbing his pants.

493
00:32:56,839 --> 00:32:58,960
It shows all of this. And then they tried to

494
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,599
surround him, right, the witnesses wouldn't sea and not to

495
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,519
They were yelling, quit resisting, yes, to make it seem

496
00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:08,440
like he was. And even then, yeah, even then, his

497
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,119
legs are pretty visible and he's not moving. Plus from

498
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,680
the top, no matter how you surround, you can't hide, no, exactly.

499
00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:19,680
And at this point, now that the video is being

500
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:25,359
circulated and it moved people to protest, especially in San

501
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,640
Diego and in Mexico, protests were growing and so the

502
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,400
DOJ had no choice but to act. At this point,

503
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,400
even members of Congress were contacting the Department of Homeland

504
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,079
Security expressing their concern, and so finally, on May ninth,

505
00:33:41,079 --> 00:33:44,359
twenty twelve, two years later, the family traveled to DC

506
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:48,960
to meet with investigators who had barely opened a criminal investigation.

507
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,079
And then the family remained in the dark. Jean Iredale

508
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,599
took over the case for them, like she he was

509
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,920
the family's lawyer, but he found Border Patrol was not

510
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:06,119
cooperating with anything. Pori Patrol refused to turn over any evidence,

511
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,480
any evidence that remained because they destroyed a lot of

512
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,360
the evidence. They claim to not understand what I cannot

513
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,960
breathe means in Spanish, so they didn't know he couldn't breathe.

514
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,920
They also stuck to their story of being concerned that

515
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,159
Anastasio was hurting himself and that's why he was being handcuffed.

516
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:28,559
And the documentary shows the depositions that Jean conducted with

517
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:33,400
the Border Patrol agents and he asks one of them

518
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,079
about the you know, the I cannot breathe statements, and

519
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,079
one of the agents respond saying, if you're talking, you

520
00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:42,320
can breathe them, he can breathe, And I was like,

521
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,039
shut the fuck up, dude. They honestly, they pissed me

522
00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:49,079
the fuck off, obviously, Like this is so infuriating, but

523
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:54,320
their carelessness, they don't give they don't care who they

524
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,760
hurt or who they kill. Yeah, they really don't. And yeah,

525
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,760
the only reason that this was even opened as a

526
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,559
case was because of the protests in both the US

527
00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:10,039
and Mexico after PBS released the video, and so you know,

528
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,519
they did these depositions and then just like nothing happened

529
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:21,360
for a while. After five years since the day that

530
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:26,480
Anastasio died, the DOJ announced that the investigation was being closed,

531
00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:31,000
and in their press releases they stated, so this is

532
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,280
twenty fifteen now. They stated that they had reviewed hundreds

533
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:40,480
of pages of evidence generated by SDPD investigators, and they

534
00:35:40,559 --> 00:35:44,360
initiated an independent federal investigation into the incident, which included

535
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,159
federal law enforcement witness accounts, Mexican law enforcement winness accounts,

536
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,480
civil witness accounts, medical personnel accounts, medical records, autopsy reports,

537
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:59,239
official use of force training materials, and forensic evidence. But

538
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,239
it's like, okay, do not see the video then, like,

539
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:06,960
because that's very clearly it's very it's a video, like please,

540
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,559
But the press release described the incident as Anastasio having

541
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,800
been resisting and needing to be restrained, and that he

542
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,880
had continued to struggle and kick agents, which again the

543
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,679
video shows that he wasn't doing any of this, But

544
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,079
that's what the press release from the DOJ investigation that's

545
00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:30,440
what they were releasing. The press release also stated that

546
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:36,159
the medical examiner said that Anastasio would not have died

547
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,760
if there had not been methamphetamine intoxication in like so

548
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:45,239
methavetomine in his system. But that's they said this in

549
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,159
their press release. But there was no It was a lie.

550
00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:53,000
He was not intoxicated with methamphetamine. No so like. This

551
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:55,719
was not just an error, it was a strain up lie.

552
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,679
Two separate autopsies were done and both essentially said the

553
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,840
exact same thing. This was a homicide brought on by

554
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,760
the variety of restraints, the number of persons who beat him,

555
00:37:08,199 --> 00:37:11,559
the fact he was prone and tasered, and if it

556
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:15,599
were not for the repeated blows and tasers, Anastasio would

557
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:21,400
still be alive. That was the conclusion of two separate autopsies.

558
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:28,480
And yet in their press release they said, oh, he

559
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:30,800
would have been alive if he didn't have methanist system,

560
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,920
which again he didn't. On top of the DOJ closing

561
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,679
the investigation, they also did not inform the family that

562
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:42,559
the statue of limitations for assault was five years and

563
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:44,920
they took so long with the investigation that the statute

564
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,000
of limitations was up anyway, so they didn't even have

565
00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:55,039
They didn't wow, and that's because they took so long.

566
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,920
They also in their press release stated that Border Patrol

567
00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:02,840
they couldn't legally prove Border Patrol acted with force or

568
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,960
with malice, Like, oh, you're telling me, it's not force

569
00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:11,639
or malice for twenty five agents to gang up on

570
00:38:11,639 --> 00:38:15,079
one man who cannot physically fight back, and even if

571
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:17,280
we could, it would be no match for twenty five

572
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:23,320
people against one And it's not with force or malice.

573
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,559
They tasered him numerous times, that they kicked him in

574
00:38:27,599 --> 00:38:32,880
the head, Like this is ridiculous. Yeah, and again, so

575
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,000
they said that there's no like, there was no evidence

576
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:39,360
to support that there was an abuse of force. But

577
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,000
the reason there was no evidence is because Border Patrol

578
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:50,559
themselves make sure there was no evidence in investigating Anastasio's death.

579
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,960
Reporter john Frey Carlos is connected to Gen Budd, a

580
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,360
former Bord Patrol officer turned whistleblower who we actually mentioned

581
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,639
a little bit in our last episode with Lonnie Schwartz

582
00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:05,159
having fired into Mexico. That was episode two fifteen, and

583
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:07,000
so we did talk about her a little bit. She

584
00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:11,679
has a book about this whistle blowing and border patrol

585
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:16,159
and stuff. She encouraged john Frey Carlos to find other

586
00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:19,360
officers willing to talk, but he found that as soon

587
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,360
as he mentioned he was a reporter, every officer just

588
00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:27,199
ended the call. Okay. So then during the course of

589
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:33,880
investigating and being connected with Jen Bud, Jen called john

590
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,280
Frey Carlos, so he was connected with her, and then

591
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,039
he was like, help me look into this. She suggested.

592
00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:45,639
You know, he reached out to agents who all hung

593
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,039
up on him. I don't think I wrote it down,

594
00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:53,000
But during the course of being connected together meeting investigating,

595
00:39:53,320 --> 00:40:02,800
she looked into the Border Patrols handbooks on violence and whatnot,

596
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,480
or just her general handbook, and she saw one mention

597
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,960
of something called critical Incident Teams, and it talked about

598
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,239
how they work, how they investigate border patrol incidents of

599
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:22,880
violence to mitigate civiliability, meaning their own fault, their own

600
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:29,239
doing wrongdoing. So then she says that she saw a

601
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:35,239
tweet on Twitter from a Border Patrol chief in Tucson

602
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:42,519
alluding to critical incident teams, and then so they're like talking.

603
00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:44,119
He's like, but do you know, She's like, no, I'm

604
00:40:44,119 --> 00:40:48,440
just suspecting because it sounds similar to this blah blah blah.

605
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,119
So like whatever case this persident was talking about sounder

606
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,480
similar to Anastasio's case. To her, yes, okay, So then

607
00:40:55,519 --> 00:41:00,679
she assumed cis involved the Critical Incident teams. So then

608
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,519
this happened in Tucson, right, so then near Nogdalist whatever

609
00:41:05,519 --> 00:41:09,519
it was. So then John Frey goes out to Nogalist,

610
00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:13,960
talked to the police there and he found that the

611
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,440
police department was not allowed to investigate the case that

612
00:41:17,519 --> 00:41:22,079
was similar to an Assatu's case. So then he and

613
00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:23,760
I can't remember if this is the same incident, but

614
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,119
there was a woman who was shot in the head

615
00:41:25,159 --> 00:41:28,360
by Border patrol and I believe it's the same, insist okay,

616
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,480
so they've done this shit before. Yeah, and she survived

617
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,119
and she's like, yes, Border patrol shot me, she told

618
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:38,119
John Fray. And so then John Fray Carlos goes to

619
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:43,400
speak to Sergeant Angulu from the Nogalist police department and

620
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,440
they told they can't talk about it. So then he

621
00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:50,039
leaves and he runs into a chief of the police

622
00:41:50,199 --> 00:41:52,840
chief be Movedness, and he's like, hey, I don't want

623
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,679
to talk about any specific incident because I know you

624
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,960
guys can't comment on it, but what is the general

625
00:41:58,079 --> 00:42:05,119
protocol involving Border patrol shootings? And so then the Chief

626
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:11,519
Bermudas tells John Frank Carlos that as far as he knows,

627
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,559
and he's been with them for a long time, he's

628
00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:17,400
the chief with the police, right as far as he knows,

629
00:42:17,599 --> 00:42:23,039
the police has never investigated any Border Patrol shooting incidents,

630
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,639
and that he knew he knew of the existence of

631
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,800
the critical Incident teams because this is a hush hush thing. Yes,

632
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:35,880
Like when I mentioned Jen had looked up there are

633
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,519
policy handbooks, she had meant she had found one mention

634
00:42:39,639 --> 00:42:44,199
of critical incident teams in an older version of the

635
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:49,800
policy and not and knew as in this timeframe, and yeah,

636
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,440
so one mention of them and then nothing else. So

637
00:42:52,679 --> 00:42:54,480
if it was very hush hush, and they're like they

638
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:56,679
just knew that they had something to do with un sol,

639
00:42:56,679 --> 00:43:01,079
they kept looking into it. So then they chief police

640
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:06,159
chief and is confirmed critical incident teams does exist, but

641
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,840
he couldn't comment on the role. So then John Fray

642
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,159
called the Border Patrol media person to ask about the

643
00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:18,679
existence of critical incident teams and the person's like, oh,

644
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,719
I don't know. I don't know anything about that, but

645
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,639
send me an email and I'll look into it. So

646
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:29,679
this person literally didn't know this Border Patrol media person

647
00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:32,480
and leads on, I guess you could say imediately. He's on,

648
00:43:33,079 --> 00:43:35,440
they didn't know about the existence of critical incident teams.

649
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,760
So they're like, well, send me an email and I'll

650
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:45,880
look into it. And someone sends John Fray in an

651
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,840
anonymous text and they're like, Hey, I heard you were

652
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:55,239
asking about critical incident teams. Here's a PowerPoint and it's

653
00:43:55,239 --> 00:44:00,360
a presentation about the critical incident teams. So the Critical

654
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,360
Incident Teams were established in September nineteen eighty seven, and

655
00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:08,880
their goal, as it's said in the PowerPoint, is to

656
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,480
do concurrent investigations with local agencies. But it seems like

657
00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:17,760
they don't partner concurrently to investigate. They investigate themselves and

658
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:24,400
they don't allow local agencies to investigate for mitigation for civiliability,

659
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,079
prepare administrative report that preserves and protects the integrity of

660
00:44:29,119 --> 00:44:32,559
the Border Patrol, and then they investigate and prepare criminal

661
00:44:32,599 --> 00:44:36,599
cases against suspects for assault on bord Patrol agents. Which

662
00:44:36,639 --> 00:44:42,000
is why they referred to Anastasio as a suspect of

663
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:48,519
assault on border patrol agents. So an anonymous former CIT

664
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:55,119
agent actually came forward and he speaks synonymously on the documentary,

665
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:57,960
but he came forward to john Frey Carlos, and he

666
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,039
admits that it was a program created to investigate high

667
00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:05,159
profile critical incidents, and these incidents are deemed the critical

668
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,320
by the chief patrol agent of the district. I guess

669
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,039
you could say where the incident happens, but there are

670
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:18,119
also times where the agents themselves could call for CIT

671
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,199
basically and they would contaminate evidence even before CC showed

672
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,840
up to cover up. And so the purpose is to

673
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,880
protect against civiliability. And there's been way more cases where

674
00:45:30,039 --> 00:45:37,239
they are similar to an Assisio's case, and yeah, who survived.

675
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:41,760
But Jen Budd looked into this. She looked up federal

676
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:46,599
lawsuits in the PACER system to kind of look into

677
00:45:46,639 --> 00:45:50,199
cases that seem similar to Anastasios to then see if

678
00:45:50,599 --> 00:45:53,199
try to find out if CIT was involved in those cases.

679
00:45:55,159 --> 00:45:56,840
And it was the same story over and over again

680
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,599
that the agents acted in self defense. And so looking

681
00:46:01,639 --> 00:46:05,280
into it, this led Jen to believe that anytime there's

682
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,199
been an incident like a shooting or a death at

683
00:46:08,199 --> 00:46:13,239
the border, CAT has been involved. Interesting And so then

684
00:46:13,519 --> 00:46:17,320
in twenty twenty one, John Frey along with the john

685
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,360
Frey Carlos I keep saying to this John Fray, but

686
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,880
john Frey Carlos and Jenbud along with the Southern Well

687
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,920
she was working with them and in conduction with the

688
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,360
Southern Border Communities Coalition, and this is a group organization

689
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,559
that was helping Maria and the family. They released the

690
00:46:34,599 --> 00:46:39,559
information they found on CAT to the media and so

691
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,559
they found that CAT was interfering in fatal incidents, and

692
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:53,519
they described the CIT as off the books investigative units

693
00:46:53,639 --> 00:46:58,760
or quote, shadow police units. And they found that the

694
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,760
CAT would go to a scene, collect evidence that supports

695
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,079
the Border Patrol, leave the evidence, but then destroy any

696
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:13,599
other evidence to alleviate responsibility and liability for Border Patrol.

697
00:47:15,079 --> 00:47:19,400
And they have no authority to exist, mind you, right,

698
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,960
So then john Frey Carlos also met with Senator Alex

699
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:29,800
Padilla to share this CIIT and information and he's like, yeah,

700
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,119
they have no approval or funding from Congress, like this

701
00:47:33,159 --> 00:47:38,159
is a shadow organization within the Border Patrol. And on

702
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,360
November sixteenth, twenty twenty one, there was a congressional oversight

703
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,360
to question the depriving of Homeland Security to question them

704
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:50,119
about the existence of CIIT, and so they questioned the

705
00:47:50,199 --> 00:47:52,840
head at the time was something I don't know, it's

706
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:58,880
first thing, but majorcas and two former senior Border Patrol

707
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:03,280
officials agreed to be in viewed about I guess maybe

708
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,079
their contact with THET and internal affairs. No, sorry, they

709
00:48:07,079 --> 00:48:11,679
were with internal affairs. Oh okay, but yeah, after the

710
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:16,599
congressional oversight hearings, the Biden administration did eventually officially on

711
00:48:16,679 --> 00:48:21,119
paper at least terminate CIT. Is there a possibility they

712
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:26,400
exist because they existed before in the shadows? Yeah? Yeah.

713
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,679
So in the documentary, two former senior Border Patrol officials

714
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:38,199
that were internal affairs agents were interviewed and they mentioned

715
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,159
I believe it's I'm not sure, but there was not

716
00:48:42,199 --> 00:48:46,119
always an internal affairs in bar Patrol. And so one

717
00:48:46,159 --> 00:48:48,760
of them, they're both named James, but one of them

718
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,320
is basically like he saying he was taken aback to

719
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,360
learn that there was no internal affairs before and he

720
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,920
was taken it back to the agent's response to internal affairs,

721
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,760
and one of them talks about how Border Patrol consider

722
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:10,199
themselves more like military and paramilitary than law enforcement. And

723
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,360
so then he would tell them, hey, law enforcement has

724
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,519
to abide blah blah blah blah blah whatever, like reason

725
00:49:15,639 --> 00:49:19,039
with them, like, hey, cooperate with me, you know, and

726
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:21,559
they would be like, you don't understand. You've never worked green.

727
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,320
And this is the thing. It's a in group, it's

728
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,800
a they made this their whole identity. And it's something

729
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,280
we talked about in the Border Patrol series that we

730
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,360
did over at Estorias Unown as well. Honestly, like, if

731
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:41,519
you're just now questioning if this organization should even exist,

732
00:49:42,119 --> 00:49:44,960
we highly suggest you check out those episodes on our

733
00:49:45,079 --> 00:49:48,039
history podcast Estorias Are Known. It goes to the beginning

734
00:49:48,079 --> 00:49:51,119
of Border Patrol and it's like five episodes deep diving

735
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:56,559
into them. But this mentality, one, this brainwashing is so dangerous.

736
00:49:56,559 --> 00:49:59,599
People are talking about right now talking about how thuggish

737
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,119
the Sly are, but it's like it's not. It's always

738
00:50:02,159 --> 00:50:06,800
been like this, This this mentality mentality has been ongoing.

739
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,119
I mean like literally in that series that most of

740
00:50:11,119 --> 00:50:15,719
the research came from doctor Kelly Litel and none. This

741
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:21,280
book Migra, a US History on a history and US

742
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:26,280
Border Patrol, But even before a decade of their existence,

743
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,559
there was a call for a reform because of the

744
00:50:29,679 --> 00:50:34,119
extreme violence that Border Patrol agency perpetrated mm hmm. And

745
00:50:34,159 --> 00:50:38,920
that was within the first ten years of the Border Patrol, yep.

746
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,440
And there was a reform where supposedly they got rid

747
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,559
of all the old timers that had this you know,

748
00:50:45,639 --> 00:50:48,519
violent mindset, but in reality, they kept a lot of

749
00:50:48,559 --> 00:50:53,000
them on as trainers, and this violent mindset never went away.

750
00:50:53,039 --> 00:50:57,119
It's embedded in the legacy of Border Patrol and now ICE,

751
00:50:57,159 --> 00:51:00,840
because ICE is a division of that you know yep.

752
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:07,360
So one of the internal affairs agents said that they

753
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,480
were briefed on Anascio's case and that agent confirmed that

754
00:51:11,519 --> 00:51:14,960
anasthetia was on his back when he was tasered, and

755
00:51:15,159 --> 00:51:19,599
he confirmed that the critical incident team was reporting directly

756
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:26,320
to the porpitual chief in San Diego, and one of

757
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,159
the internal affairs agents was directed to submit a false

758
00:51:30,199 --> 00:51:35,360
report on the incident. And they also said that the

759
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:41,159
CIIT illegally obtained the autopsy report before anyone else had

760
00:51:41,199 --> 00:51:46,440
access to it, and then they used that autopsy to

761
00:51:46,519 --> 00:51:49,679
construct their own story. So they read about the math

762
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,519
and they said, Okay, he was on meth but in reality,

763
00:51:53,639 --> 00:51:56,119
but they're so stupid and they didn't recognize that that

764
00:51:56,199 --> 00:51:58,719
was a medication he was given at the hospital, right.

765
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,679
It was the medication peneleprine. Yeah, and this often causes

766
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,400
a false positive for a meth and so they just

767
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,440
took that and around with it to construct their story

768
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,159
because they had to make something up right to not

769
00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:12,199
seem culpable. And so I thought this was important for

770
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,800
them to come out and say the truth because every

771
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,199
other agent that was interviewed about this in the documentary,

772
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:22,920
including the current chief, they're like, oh, well he was

773
00:52:23,679 --> 00:52:26,679
excuses right, Oh he was resisting. Oh I don't know

774
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,119
too much about it, but I just know he was

775
00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:31,039
resisting like things like that. And then there are like, no,

776
00:52:32,119 --> 00:52:34,239
I was brief on this and he was on his

777
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,440
back when he was taard and c AT directed me

778
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:43,880
to submit a Polish reports. So yeah, yes, thank you

779
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:49,880
for that rundown. And you know, even after all this,

780
00:52:50,199 --> 00:52:53,239
like not being told what was going on after the

781
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,000
case was closed by DOJ and Assasi's family did not

782
00:52:57,079 --> 00:53:00,400
give up. When the criminal investigation went nowhere, they pursued

783
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:05,119
a civil lawsuit, which they won February twenty seventeen. And

784
00:53:05,159 --> 00:53:09,159
this does not at all mean that justice was served.

785
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:13,039
It was pursued because the criminal case was closed, and

786
00:53:13,079 --> 00:53:15,840
it was in the civil lawsuit that the family finally

787
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,519
learned some of the names of some of the officers involved,

788
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,599
not even not all of them at all. There had

789
00:53:22,639 --> 00:53:25,440
been a protective order in place to withhold their names

790
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,320
because they're like they're always protected. Hence why they're walking

791
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:34,760
around in masks right now. In between the criminal investigation

792
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,760
and the civil lawsuit taking place, the family also filed

793
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,599
a petition with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights,

794
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:46,000
or the IACCHR, and they had the help of Alliance

795
00:53:46,039 --> 00:53:49,440
San Diego and international law experts from UC Berkeley like

796
00:53:49,559 --> 00:53:56,039
Roxanna Alfhalls. And the IACCHR is the only court currently

797
00:53:56,119 --> 00:53:58,760
in which you can sue the United States for human

798
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,039
rights abuses. They do not have the authority to put

799
00:54:02,039 --> 00:54:05,039
anyone in prison, but they do hold moral and political

800
00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:09,039
sway and can encourage the creation of hard law protections.

801
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,199
The IACCHR is what is considered a soft law and

802
00:54:12,519 --> 00:54:16,639
change in policies and stuff like that. Yeah, and so on.

803
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:21,639
May tenth, twenty seventeen, the IACHR announced that it would

804
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:26,280
be moving forward with the case, and it gave the

805
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,400
US government a chance to respond to the allegations of

806
00:54:29,519 --> 00:54:34,719
extra judicial killing, torture, and obstruction of justice. And the

807
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:39,159
Trump administration did respond, arguing that the IACHR did not

808
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,639
have jurisdiction to hear the case. But they did, and

809
00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:46,000
they did. They did take the case, and they had

810
00:54:46,079 --> 00:54:50,960
jurisdician to do so, and so in twenty nineteen August

811
00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:56,719
twenty nineteen, they spoke with Maria Burga and others and

812
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,079
this was the trial. During this she testified, quote, I

813
00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:02,880
still hear the cries of my husband calling for help.

814
00:55:04,159 --> 00:55:06,679
The border agents who killed him must have thought he

815
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,639
didn't have a family or a community. They were wrong.

816
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,599
Here we are and we will fight for justice for

817
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:16,159
Anastasio and all other victims of border agents until the

818
00:55:16,199 --> 00:55:20,519
system changes end quote. And in a landmark ruling on

819
00:55:20,599 --> 00:55:27,079
April twenty eighth, twenty twenty, almost a decade after his killing. Yeah,

820
00:55:27,159 --> 00:55:30,400
almost a decade, yes, sorry, I can't do math. Almost

821
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,400
a decade after his killing, the IACHR ruled in favor

822
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,119
of Anastasio's family. They ruled that the US had violated

823
00:55:38,159 --> 00:55:42,679
the rights to life, health, justice, personal integrity, and humane

824
00:55:42,679 --> 00:55:46,719
treatment during deprivation of freedom. They also stated that Anastasio

825
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:52,559
was subjected to torture, which he was The commission recommended

826
00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:56,559
that the US reopen the DOJ investigation, and this has

827
00:55:56,639 --> 00:56:00,840
yet to happen. But this was a meaningful not only

828
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,199
for Anastasio's family, but also for the many who have

829
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,880
been abused and killed at the hands of both Border

830
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,440
Patrol and ICE, hundreds hundreds of people. In documentary they

831
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,320
mentioned that after Anastasio's and I don't know how how

832
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:18,920
far how recent they counted, but after Anthatia's death, at

833
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,119
least two hundred people have died at the hands of

834
00:56:21,159 --> 00:56:24,599
Board Patrol. Oh yeah, we've shared similar statistics in our

835
00:56:24,679 --> 00:56:29,400
episode two fifteen, and like one is one too many,

836
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:33,599
but here we are at two hundred plus. The current

837
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,920
Commissioner of the US Customs and Border Patrol is implicated

838
00:56:39,159 --> 00:56:42,960
in the killing of Anastasio. He was the chief, He

839
00:56:43,039 --> 00:56:45,960
was the one in charge of the critical incident. He was,

840
00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:51,519
say theory, the critical Incident team that interfered with the investigation.

841
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,800
Under his direction, they did the following, some of which

842
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,239
we have already mentioned, but they took control of the

843
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:02,559
incident scene and collected evidence now SDPD. They erased witness

844
00:57:02,559 --> 00:57:06,119
cell phone video and dispersed witnesses. They requested that a

845
00:57:06,159 --> 00:57:10,719
hospital doctor tests an Assassia for drugs. They unlawfully used

846
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:15,199
in the administrative subpoena to acquire those medical records. They

847
00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:19,800
provided police investigators the wrong video footage from surveillance cameras.

848
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,480
They allowed surveillance footage of the incidents to be taped over.

849
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,639
They participated in all of the witness interviews conducted by police.

850
00:57:28,199 --> 00:57:31,119
They intervened in the autopsy and took their own photos.

851
00:57:31,719 --> 00:57:35,480
They altered the Border Patrol arrests record before giving it

852
00:57:35,639 --> 00:57:39,599
to the police. They wrote their own investigative report used

853
00:57:39,599 --> 00:57:44,000
to mitigate the liability of agents. And that is the

854
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,760
person currently in charge of patrol, the person who was

855
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:51,039
in charge of that investigation by C. T. Scott something.

856
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:56,559
You wrote his name down, Rodney Scott. Rodney Scott. This

857
00:57:56,639 --> 00:57:59,360
is the person currently in charge of Border Patrol. He

858
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,840
is the commision of the Customs and customs and border whatever.

859
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:08,159
He's the commissioner. Yeah. And when he was questioned about Anastasio,

860
00:58:08,239 --> 00:58:11,960
was it for the documentary, how arrogant that he still

861
00:58:12,159 --> 00:58:15,559
appeared in the documentary instead of just not commenting or

862
00:58:15,599 --> 00:58:20,239
denying to appear. Anyway, He was questioned about Anastasio's case

863
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:24,119
for the HBO documentary and he said the following about

864
00:58:24,119 --> 00:58:28,239
Anastasio quote, it was an illegal alien. He right, he

865
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,079
didn't say it, did he? However, it's typed up, is

866
00:58:31,199 --> 00:58:35,079
how he said. That's insane. Quote. I did they ask

867
00:58:35,159 --> 00:58:38,440
him about the incident, like, have you heard of the

868
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,800
case case? Okay, yeah, that would make more sense. Okay,

869
00:58:42,639 --> 00:58:45,320
it was an illegal alien that Border Patrol agents arrested.

870
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,840
They were sending him back south. He kind of flipped out,

871
00:58:48,079 --> 00:58:51,800
multiple agents responded, and ultimately he ended up he ended

872
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:57,280
up passing away, just like that of his own volition. Yeah,

873
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:59,800
he passed away. It was his fault he passed away. Actually,

874
00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:03,719
he ended up passing away, you know, just like anviently. Yeah.

875
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:09,360
Plunos and Rodney Scott denied ci T was on the

876
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:13,039
scene and denied there was a cover up at all.

877
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:16,639
And like we said earlier, Congress did announce a formal

878
00:59:16,719 --> 00:59:19,800
investigation into CIT in twenty twenty two, but in May

879
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,599
of that year. But in May of that year, by

880
00:59:22,639 --> 00:59:26,719
the announce that they would eliminate cit And like we

881
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,320
said earlier, who knows if this actually happened like it

882
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,159
made have happened on paper, But they could very well

883
00:59:33,199 --> 00:59:36,719
still be existing in the shadows, just like they had

884
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,960
been four years before all of this came to light.

885
00:59:40,679 --> 00:59:43,159
And that wouldn't be the most surprising thing, just thinking about,

886
00:59:43,199 --> 00:59:46,159
like say, the School of Americas which was quote unquote

887
00:59:46,159 --> 00:59:49,239
officially closed but then reopened under a different name Windzek,

888
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,280
So yeah, that wouldn't be that shocking. And this is

889
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:58,119
the exact type of investigative unit that would have responded

890
00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:01,760
to what happened today. Yeah, m hm. And part of

891
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,599
me also wonders like if di Biden administration chose to

892
01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:09,079
eliminate it so that there would be no vestigation. No, really,

893
01:00:09,159 --> 01:00:14,000
and investigation is warranted. Yes, how many deaths have they

894
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:20,639
covered up? Yeah, we don't know because there's no investigation. Yeah,

895
01:00:20,679 --> 01:00:25,719
and that was the case of Anastasio Ernandez Drojas, one

896
01:00:25,719 --> 01:00:41,800
that we should all be familiar with, especially right now. Yeah, Yeah,

897
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:48,119
that was heavy for sure. It was it was go

898
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,519
get some ice cream or something or I don't know,

899
01:00:50,639 --> 01:00:54,199
sign petitions and protests and then go get ice cream

900
01:00:54,559 --> 01:00:59,840
something yeah, but yeah, we first we are sorry for

901
01:01:00,079 --> 01:01:03,239
or how whatever this brought up for you, it brought

902
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,960
up the same for us. But again, it's a very

903
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,519
important case and it's hard to talk about, it's hard

904
01:01:09,519 --> 01:01:13,159
to read about, it's hard to learn about, but it

905
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:19,840
deserves to be told. And even the family themselves are like,

906
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:24,800
the settlement was not justice. Justice will be first of all,

907
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:28,760
this should never happen, right, But justice to the family,

908
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,119
as they have said, would be for this to never

909
01:01:31,199 --> 01:01:34,880
happen again, and for things like this to never happen again.

910
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,559
We have to talk about the injustice and the atrocities

911
01:01:39,599 --> 01:01:42,760
that have already been committed by bor patrol and ice

912
01:01:44,599 --> 01:01:48,000
because people don't know that they have always been like this, right,

913
01:01:48,039 --> 01:01:56,360
Today's murder by ice agents is nothing new, right, And

914
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,239
if people aren't surprised, then they should look into the

915
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:03,119
history of borbae Ie because they have always acted as

916
01:02:03,159 --> 01:02:08,960
menaces to society. They have murder and raped women and

917
01:02:09,039 --> 01:02:13,239
children and men, and yeah, they have acted with impetuity.

918
01:02:13,519 --> 01:02:18,519
They have never been convicted of a murder despite killing

919
01:02:18,679 --> 01:02:23,400
hundreds of people. Yep. And so this is just a call, right,

920
01:02:23,559 --> 01:02:33,880
like these type of murderers organizations shouldn't exist exactly. And

921
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,519
that is where we will leave you with those words,

922
01:02:38,079 --> 01:02:42,400
and we'll be back next week with a different topic.

923
01:02:42,599 --> 01:02:49,559
As always, Goodbye as Book tells Us. Hosted by Christina

924
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:53,159
and Carmen, Produced and edited by Christina, researched by Christina

925
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,039
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to join the Patreon, that's fine too. You can also

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get some merch you can find sure says say a

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Spooky and old English letters. There's a beanie I love

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the beanie. There's also a hat. There's a No Mamus shirt,

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which is a fan favorite. There's a lot of options,

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crap tops, sweaters, it's almost wetter weather. We're nearing a

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Spookie season, so yeah, get your hoodies. You're gonna need them.

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If you don't want to do all that, that's fine too.

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You can just listen like you're listening now, and that's

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the best support that you can give us. Like I

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always say in our ad break and yeah, I feel

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like history. You can follow Estoria's Unknown Mining, Carmen's other podcasts,

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and you can find as Spooky Tells on all of

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our socials at a Spooky Tells All. This is in

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the show notes and we appreciate every single listen. Thank

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you so much. Stay a Spooky