08.07.2022, 14:43
Der Vorfall hatte ein ziemlich heftiges Echo verursacht, da angenommen wurde, es wurden seitens der Grenzsschützer Peitschen eingesetzt (was mit unguten Erinnerungen an die Sklavereizeit in Verbindung gebracht wurde); allerdings gibt es auch andere Darstellungen...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol...n-migrants
Entschärfen wird es die eh schon aufgeheizte Stimmung indessen vermutlich nicht.
Schneemann
Zitat:CBP proposes discipline for Texas agents accused of 'whipping' Haitian migrants
Some top Democrats mistook the use of the border agents' reins to control their horses and said the Haitian migrants were being 'whipped'. [...] Details of the punishments have not been released but CBP is expected to imminently announce the results of the administrative investigation, a source told Fox News. The agency made headlines last year when agents were falsely accused of whipping the migrants along the Del Rio Sector in Texas. [...] The controversy escalated as some media outlets and Democratic lawmakers misidentified the agents’ split reins, which they use and twirl to control and direct the horse -- and falsely claimed the agents were using "whips" on the migrants. [...]
The Office of Inspector General declined to press criminal charges against the agents and the investigation has since moved to DHS’ Office of Professional Responsibility.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol...n-migrants
Entschärfen wird es die eh schon aufgeheizte Stimmung indessen vermutlich nicht.
Schneemann