Thread: Mexican Authorities Want Answers to Police Shooting

This kind of news is so hypocritical. Mexico is as full of crime as it can be with murders happening daily and yet if something happens to one of their citizens (in this case a dual citizen) in our country they demand full investigations.
Wonder how many investigations they carry out in their country?

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=5664200

Mexican Authorities Want Answers to Police Shooting

Nov 10, 2006 07:04 PM PST



Lawyers filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the case of Shelbyville resident Fermin Estrada. That came late Thursday.

Now, the Mexican Consulate is getting involved.

It wants the FBI to investigate. Since Fermin Estrada was a Mexican national as well as a U.S. citizen, the consulate feels it has a duty to see that justice is carried out.

At the center of this fight is the report issued by the TBI about the shooting of Estrada by a Shelbyville police officer.

Oldest son William Estrada remembers it clearly.

"I miss him everyday, everyday," William Estrada tells NewsChannel 5's Amy Rao. "All I remember is seeing my dad falling."

Shelbyville Officer James Wilkerson shot and killed Fermin Estrada in front of his family in his backyard in March. The family and witnesses maintain police never identified themselves.

"No, no, there were no warnings, no," William insists.

Police said they did and they added Fermin fired towards the officers -- and that's why they shot.

The debate over whether the officers identified themselves continues eight months later.

The TBI conducted the only official report into the officers' actions.

Under state law, the TBI can't release it.

The district attorney who has seen the report won't comment. The police chief hasn't seen it, but said the DA assured him his officer did nothing wrong.

The family can't get the report so they've now filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit. They're asking for $25 million in compensatory damages, $25 million in punitive damages.

The Mexican consulate wants some answers. They, too, want to see the TBI report.

"I will insist on getting the information on the investigations performed both by the Tennessee authorities and the federal authorities," Remedios Gomez, with the consul general of Mexico, tells NewsChannel 5.

The consulate has sent a letter to the FBI, hoping for a response.

Meanwhile, the Estradas' lawyers are looking for a court date.

They allege in the lawsuit that Wilkerson used excessive force and that his poor decision making and practice of racially profiling contributed to the assassination of an innocent man.

I drive by this little town everyday. This idiot was outside, blind drunk, firing a pistol wildly. He was "celebrating" according to the family, which they say is a Mexican cultural thing. A neighbor called the cops and they told him to drop the gun, they said he pointed in their direction and fired. It showed he had actually fired the gun into the ground, but who knows if that was before he pointed it at them. The big question is "Did they identify themselves." You ever see a cop, in this case several, not yell a hundred times, "POLICE". Anyone who knows a cop, that is a built-in reaction....it's second nature to them. A ambulance chasing lawyer has primed these people in order to suck as much money as possible out of the city. I personally don't see how they can win....but I felt the same way about the BP agents....sometimes there is NO justice.

It's a sad case that vividly demonstrates how culture differences and not fully assimilating can be distrastrous. People have been shot for less...toy guns, etc., but they will try and make this some kind of civil rights issue.

Why do the Mexicans and Arabs both fire weapons while celebrating????

Amnesty and dual citizenship means that Mexico will forever have their noses stuck in the U.S. business. It will be constant trouble and lawsuits till the U.S. is destroyed. If our govenment wants to give amnesty then they better be prepared to take orders from Mexico forever.