New Report Calls into Question CBP’s Use of Force Policy
Immigration Impact summarizes a recent report that once again places Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) use-of-force policies into question. The new report is by former Baltimore police commissioner and Justice Department official Thomas Frazie. First reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism’s Reveal, Frazier’s scathing review of CBP policy was done at the request of the family of José Alfredo Yañez Reyes, who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol Agent in June 2011 after he and another man tried to flee from agents into Mexico.
Among other things, the report found that “It Is Inherently Suspect for a Law Enforcement Officer to Use Deadly Force in Response to Rock Throwing.” The officers in the case claimed that Reyes was throwing rocks at them. The report stated that the author is aware of only one incident from 1942, where a police officer was actually killed by a thrown rock or projectile.
KJ