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Mexico: US teenager shot dead by police in Oaxaca
Boy, 16, identified only as Alexander, killed on Tuesday night
Details unclear but cousin says teenager was buying soda
David Agren in Mexico City
@el_reportero
Wed 10 Jun 2020 18.22 EDT
A US teenager has been shot dead by local police in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in yet another shocking case of police abuse and brutality.
The 16-year-old victim – identified only as Alexander – was killed on Tuesday night after he went out to buy soda, according to media reports.
Details of the shooting remain unclear. News agency Quadratín said Alexander was shot at from a patrol car in an attack that injured a friend. The newspaper Reforma quoted a family member, who said Alexander was riding on a motorcycle with a 15-year-old boy at around 10.50pm and was chased by police.
“They were in a petrol station buying a soda. They started to shoot, and because these 15- and 16-year-old boys were scared, they ran,” a cousin, Dulce Darián, told Reforma.
“They didn’t give them the option to stop or take off their face masks. They simply started to shoot and they shot him in the head. Alexander died instantly because the police didn’t want to give him first aid.”
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/10/mexico-teenager-oaxaca-police-shot-dead
Also posted in LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142512131
