#Tohono #Oodham Police Vendetta Revealed in Murder of #RaymondMattia

By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews

December 21, 2023

"The vendetta of a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer is revealed by attorneys for the family of Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, who was murdered when Tohono O'odham police and U.S. Border Patrol agents fired 38 shots at him, striking him with nine bullets, in front of his home.

"'I don’t know exactly where that motherfucker is at,' a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer told U.S. Border Patrol agents as they met shortly before Raymond was murdered.

"The statement was revealed by the family's attorneys. The Tohono O'odham Nation police department refuses to release the officer's name. Neither the U.S. Border Patrol, nor the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department, have released all of the officer body cam recordings of Raymond's murder. Only an edited portion has been released to the public.

"Federal prosecutors are now part of the cover-up and refuse to file charges against the officer and agents who fired the shots at Raymond, murdering him in front of his home in Ali Jegk, less than a mile north of the border, on May 18, 2023.
U.S. Department of Justice employees met with the family in Sells to discuss their decision but refused to provide the family with details about what happened that night.

"During a series of interviews between 2011 and 2013, on the border in Raymond's community, Ali Jegk, Raymond told Censored News that he videotaped U.S. Border Patrol agents escorting Mexican cartels bringing drug loads across the border. When Raymond submitted the evidence, it vanished.

"The new details of Raymond's murder are stated by attorneys for his family in a letter, which notified the Customs and Border Patrol of the family's intent to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

"It reveals that Raymond never acted aggressively."

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/12/tohono-oodham-police-vendetta-revealed.html

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#Arizona tribe protests decision not to prosecute #BorderPatrol agents who fatally shot #RaymondMattia

José Ignacio Castañeda Perez
USA TODAY NETWORK
October 16, 2023

"Federal prosecutors won’t file charges against U.S. Border Patrol agents who shot and killed a member of the #Tohono #Oodham Nation just steps outside his home earlier this year, sparking outrage from the tribe who called the decision 'a travesty of justice.'

"In a statement released last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said its employees met with Raymond Mattia’s family and their lawyers to inform the family of their decision not to prosecute on Sept. 19. Representatives from the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to share substantive details about their investigation into the shooting and did not factually answer why they chose not to prosecute, according to Ryan Stitt, a San Diego-based attorney representing the Mattia family.

"Going forward, the family has 'little choice' but to file a civil lawsuit in order to get answers about what happened to Mattia, Stitt said.

"'The government’s decision to not prosecute the agents involved is not surprising,' Stitt said in a written statement. 'Law enforcement officers are rarely prosecuted, even for killing unarmed people.'"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/16/raymond-mattia-tohono-oodham-nation-arizona-case/71200420007/

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Some background about #RaymondMattia's murder

#BorderPatrol Video of Killing Shows #Native Man Had No Gun, Complied With Orders

Raymond Mattia’s family said the partial release of body camera footage “feels like a cheap attempt to justify what they did.”

Ryan Devereaux
June 26 2023

"The case is still under investigation, with the participation of the Border Patrol’s parent agency, Customs and Border Protection, as well as the FBI and the Tohono #Oodham Nation. Of the 10 Border Patrol agents involved in the incident, three opened fire, CBP has said. Those agents are currently on administrative leave. Whether Tohono O’odham #police also opened fire is unclear.

"The family hoped that the body camera videos would provide answers to their questions. When they arrived at a Tohono O’odham police substation last week to view the footage, however, they found that was not the case. Though CBP had confirmed that all 10 agents involved in the incident were wearing body cameras, the family was shown the same 28-minute edited video the agency released to the public last week, which only included video from the three agents who opened fire."

Full story:
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/border-patrol-killing-raymond-mattia/

Web archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230626195154/https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/border-patrol-killing-raymond-mattia/

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Justice for Raymond #Mattia: #PeacefulProtest on #Tohono #Oodham Nation, Dec. 15, 2023

via #CensoredNews

Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, 3 pm.
Location: #SellsArizona (near the intersection of Route 86 and Spencer Drive).

[In May 2023,] "Raymond Mattia was murdered in front of his home in #AliJegk, on the Tohono O'odham Nation, in a hail of bullets fired by Tohono O'odham #Police and #USBorderPatrol agents.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/12/justice-for-raymond-mattia-peaceful.html

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