TUCSON, Ariz. — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fed up with cross-border rock throwers when he deliberately shot at a Mexican teenager, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday as the agent’s second trial began in the 2012 killing. It is rare for a Border Patrol agent to be prosecuted on charges involving use of force. “There is no justification for what he did when took the life Jose Elena Rodriguez,” Kleindienst said. Defence attorney Sean Chapman said Swartz and other border agents and local police in Nogales, Arizona, were in serious danger. The shooting sparked outrage and came at a time when the Border Patrol was increasingly under scrutiny for its use of force, especially in rock-throwing incidents.

Source: National Post October 24, 2018 19:46 UTC