This coming Tuesday, May 20, marks the six-year anniversary of the shooting of 18-year-old Mexican-American shepherd Esequiel Hernandez. Hernandez was killed by US Marines on an anti-drug patrol outside the small town of Redford, Texas, near the US-Mexico border.
Visit http://www.dpft.org/hernandez/ for history and photographs from this tragic incident.
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