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Wednesday 22 november

FBI treating border agents death as assault, for now

By CLAUDIA LAUER has not been released,
DAVID WARREN was seriously injured. They
Associated Press were found late Saturday
DALLAS (AP) — An FBI of- in a culvert near Van Horn,
ficial said Tuesday that about 30 miles (50 kilome-
the bureau is investigating ters) from the border with
the death of a border pa- Mexico and 110 miles (175
trol agent and injuring of kilometers). An FBI spokes-
another as “potential as- woman, Jeanette Harper,
sault,” but he wouldn’t rule said in a news release Mon-
out that they could have day that both agents had
been injured in some other traumatic head injuries.
way. The agent who survived
During a news conference was hospitalized in serious
at the bureau’s El Paso condition. She told the San
office, Special Agent in Antonio Express-News on
Charge Emmerson Buie Jr. Sunday that the agents
said investigators are still were “not fired upon,” but
trying to “gather the facts,” she didn’t elaborate.
but they are currently treat- A U.S. official with knowl-
ing it as an assault on a edge of the investigation
federal officer. told the Associated Press FBI Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso field office Emmerson Buie Jr. speaks during a press
Rogelio Martinez, a 36-year- on Monday that Martinez conference at the FBI field office, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in El Paso, Texas, about the death of
old U.S. Customs and Bor- was found at the bottom of a border patrol agent and the severe injuries of a second agent. FBI officials said Tuesday that
der Protection agent from the culvert and investiga- officers are investigating the incident as a “potential physical assault” on federal officers, but said
El Paso, died Sunday and tors believe he may have there are several scenarios that might have led to the agents’ injuries.
his partner, whose name fallen.q (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Jury weighing fate of suspect in San Francisco pier killing

By JANIE HAR Mexican man who was in er fierce national debate by federal immigration au- gration authorities, a policy
Associated Press the United States illegally on immigration. thorities to detain him for that a federal judge in San
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — when he shot a woman on The jury of six men and six deportation. Francisco permanently
Jurors on Tuesday started a San Francisco pier in a women will consider duel- He had been deported five blocked Monday.
weighing the fate of a killing that stirred up anoth- ing arguments that Jose times before. But the politics of immigra-
Ines Garcia Zarate was ei- Steinle’s death put San tion were not allowed to
ther a hapless homeless Francisco and its “sanctu- come up in the monthlong
man who killed Kate Steinle ary city” policy in the spot- trial. Defense attorney Matt
in a freak accident or a light, as Democrats and Gonzalez said in his clos-
calculated murderer intent Republicans lashed out ing remarks that he knows
on playing a sick game. at city officials for refusing it’s difficult to believe Gar-
Steinle was walking with her to cooperate with federal cia Zarate found an object
father and a family friend deportation efforts. During that turned out to be a
on a sunny day in July 2015 the presidential race, then- weapon that fired when he
when she was shot, col- candidate Donald Trump picked it up.
lapsing into her father’s cited the killing as a reason But he told jurors that Gar-
arms. Garcia Zarate had to toughen U.S. immigration cia Zarate had no motiva-
been released from the policies. Trump later signed tion to kill Steinle and as
San Francisco jail about an executive order to cut awful as her death was,
three months before the funding from cities that limit “nothing you do is going to
shooting, despite a request cooperation with U.S. immi- fix that.” q