Border agent used slurs before allegedly hitting migrant with his truck
LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO - FEBRUARY 20: Border Patrol agents and trainees track drug smugglers through open desert for several miles near Lordsburg, New Mexico on February 20, 2019. Border Patrol agents tracked the group of six for more than 24 hours before catching them a mile south of I-10. By Tim Elfrink Tim Elfrink Editor of the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow May 20 at 5:35 AM In November 2017, U.S.
The texts came to light in filings last month in U.S. District Court in Tucson as Bowen’s attorney fought to suppress a flurry of messages in which the agent used slurs and made light of violence by agents. But Bowen’s views are hardly extraordinary, argued his attorney, Sean Chapman. Rather, his sentiments are “commonplace throughout the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector,” Chapman wrote, adding that such messages are"part of the agency’s culture.
In one text exchange, an unnamed agent asked Bowen, “Did you gas hiscorpse or just use regular peanut oil while tazing?? For a frying effect.” Bowen responded: “Guats are best made crispy, with olive oil from their native pais,” using the Spanish word for “country” that doubles as an insult toward Guatemalans, the Daily Star reported. In another text, he refers to “mindless murdering savages.”
“I bumped a guat with a truck while driving about 7 mph,” he wrote in one text. “No injury at all and tonk refused medical.”
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