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Texas
Paper
Releases
Scathing
Pentagon
Review
of
Esequiel
Hernandez
Shooting
9/11/98
Some drug war tragedies can
never be undone. One such tragedy is the death of Esequiel Hernandez,
shot by a United States Marine on an anti-drug patrol on the U.S.-Mexico
border at Redford, Texas. A recently released internal Pentagon report
has cleared the Marine, Cpl. Clemente Banuelos, of wrongdoing, but made
scathing criticisms of practices that led to the shooting. Retired
Marine Maj. Gen. John T. Coyne found that the marines on patrol were not
adequately trained for a law enforcement-type operation, and that the missions
"appears to have been viewed at every level of Marine Corps command as
more of a training opportunity than a real world deployment," among other
observations. The Marine Corps has disputed the findings in a written
response.
The San Antonio Current has
obtained a copy of the Coyne report and posted it on the web, with a detailed
article discussing the shooting and related issues. You can read
the article at http://www.metrotimes.com/border.html
and the Coyne report at http://www.metrotimes.com/coynereport.html
on an affiliated paper's site.
Visit the Esequiel Hernandez
photo gallery at http://www.mapinc.org/DPFT/hernandez/gallery/.
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Issue #58, 9/11/98
A Note to Our Readers | US-Trained, Incorruptible Mexican Anti-Narcotics Squad Widely Corrupted | Alert: McCollum Drug Act Would Further Militarize Andean Drug War | Texas Paper Releases Scathing Pentagon Review of Esequiel Hernandez Shooting | Whitman, AIDS Council Still at Odds Over Needle Exchange | Fayetteville City Council Rejects Random Drug Testing | New Jersey Supreme Court Finds Right to Jury Trial in Forfeiture Cases | March To Stop the Drug War, Berkeley, CA 26-Sep | First-Ever Global Conference on How To Legalize Cannabis | Attention College Students! | NY Attorney General Candidates Admit Past Marijuana Use | Patient's Glaucoma Justified Medical Marijuana Use, Cultivation, Canadian Judge Rules | Editorial: Long, Hot Summer
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