FBI: Mexican Troops Chased Border Patrol Agents

[LaurenG]

Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses said.

The killing of the Mexican by a U.S. authorities — the second in less than two weeks — has exposed the distrust between the two countries that lies just below the surface, and has enraged Mexicans who see the death of the boy on Mexican soil as an act of murder.

Shortly after the boy was shot, Mexican soldiers arrived at the scene and pointed their guns at the Border Patrol agents across the riverbank while bystanders screamed insults and hurled rocks and firecrackers, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said. She said the agents were forced to withdraw.

A relative of the dead boy who had been playing with him told the Associated Press that the Mexicans — who he described as federal police, not soldiers — pointed their guns only when the Americans waded into the mud in an apparent attempt to cross into Mexico.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/09/world/main6565723.shtml

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[lpbk2713]

1. Sounds understandable to me.

Using preliminary reports, if the young man was thought to be shot by representatives of the American
government it is understandable that they would want any Americans kept away from the scene.

[LaurenG]

2. I have no beef with the Mexican authorities. The 15 year old appears to have been in Mexico

when he was shot from the US side of the river.