U.S. Border Patrol agent is accused of calling migrants 'savages' in text messages weeks before he knocked one over with a pickup truck
- A U.S. Border Patrol agent had called migrants “subhuman” and “savages” in text messages weeks before he knocked over a migrant with a pickup truck, according to federal court documents.
Agent Matthew Bowen sent the messages in November 2017, two weeks before he is accused of deliberately knocking over a Guatemalan man with his Border Patrol vehicle in Nogales, Arizona, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson. Defense lawyer Sean Chapman, in a May 10 response to block release of the messages, said the case turned on whether Bowen, by using his truck to stop the fleeing individual, used excessive force.
Human rights groups regularly accuse Border Patrol of mistreating migrants. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost on May 8 said assaults of her agents were up 20 percent. A Guatemalan woman faces felony assault charges for biting a Tucson agent during her arrest on Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tweeted.
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