Cell phone video shows border agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry with their guns drawn on a family returning home from a funeral in Mexico Thursday, in what…
Cell phone video captured the encounter last Thursday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Joshua Durazo said his family was returning home from his cousin’s funeral and he had just handed over the paperwork when the officers drew their weapons and told everyone to get out of the vehicle.There is new reaction to a story about a local family that was held at gunpoint by border agents. NBC 7's Shelby Bremer has more from a civil rights attorney and those asking about accountability.
Customs and Border Protection has not answered specific questions about the incident, including why the officers drew their weapons or if they opened an investigation into the incident.“I have a problem that they haven't told you that there is an investigation that's going to happen, and that's going to happen immediately,” said civil rights lawyer Joseph McMullen.
McMullen said the Supreme Court has broken up the rights at the border into routine and non-routine searches. For a routine border search, which McMullen said includes primary and secondary inspections while crossing, there doesn’t have to be any suspicion of wrongdoing to be temporarily detained and questioned.
“Reasonable is what we as a community decide is OK,” McMullen said. “We start to fall outside of that reasonableness when we are using force on people, when we're scaring folks for no reason, when we're doing things that don't have a legitimate law enforcement purpose.”
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