{"id":29147,"date":"2012-04-24T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=29147"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:59:44","slug":"new-evidence-surfaces-in-death-of-undocumented-san-diego-resident-on-the-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/04\/24\/new-evidence-surfaces-in-death-of-undocumented-san-diego-resident-on-the-border-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence Surfaces in Death of Undocumented San Diego Resident on the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Nearly two years ago, a 42 year old man named Anastacio Hernandez Rojas died after being beaten and tased by Border Patrol agents who were in the process of deporting him to Mexico. Rojas, a husband, and father of five, had lived in San Diego for more than ten years. In justifying his beating, Border Patrol agents claimed he had become violent. The Attorney overseeing his case said that a quantity of methamphetamine was found in his blood at the time of death by the coronor and the case was then dismissed without anyone involved being charged. However, Rojas’ death was ruled a “homicide” by the San Diego medical examiner, and while his death brought some media attention in 2010, it quickly faded away — until now. <\/p>\n

As a result of investigative journalism, two videos by witnesses have revealed that Rojas was handcuffed and on the ground when he was repeatedly beaten and tased. A new documentary that aired this past Friday on PBS, and that is available for viewing online, explored Rojas’ death, and the new evidence that has come to light. Meanwhile, Rojas’ family has filed a wrongful death suit against the federal government and 12 agents involved. The online organization, Presente.org<\/a> is in the process of gathering signatures for a petition aimed at Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a federal investigation. <\/p>\n

GUEST: John Carlos Frey, Investigative journalist and documentary film maker, who has been investigating the case of Anastacio Rojas through the Nation<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to sign Presente.org’s petition. <\/p>\n

Watch the PBS documentary about Anastacio Rojas’ Death here: <\/p>\n

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Watch Crossing the line at the border<\/a> on PBS. See more from Need To Know.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen to this segment | entire program Nearly two years ago, a 42 year old man named Anastacio Hernandez Rojas died after being beaten and tased by Border Patrol agents who were in the process of deporting him to Mexico. Rojas, a husband, and father of five, had lived in San Diego for more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}