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A Bexar County MP who groped a migrant teenager for a total of 35 seconds is now the subject of internal investigation after the video was released by Reveal, a nonprofit investigative news agency.
Following Reveal’s release of the incident that occurred at the Southwest Key Casa Blanca animal shelter on May 12, 2020, the Bexar County’s sheriff’s office announced to KSAT 12 News that the affected deputy has been placed on administrative leave. Upon learning of the incident, Sheriff Javier Salazar “immediately opened an internal affairs investigation to investigate any misconduct,” according to the sheriff’s office.
Alternates were called to the shelter about the teen after staff said he was angry, uncooperative, and damaged bed posts and storage containers at the shelter. The staff spoke to the teen in Spanish to get him to calm down and come out for about seven minutes before the deputy fingered him.
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In the video, the teenager looks desperate. Staff later told MPs that the teen had ADHD and was diagnosed with major depression.
After waiting for his partner to arrive, the deputy secretary prepared to arrest the teenager.
“Alright, finished? I’m going to tase this kid, ”said the deputy, according to the video received from Reveal. BCSO refused to provide the video to KSAT.
The proxy then confronts the teen and tells him to turn around in English. It’s unclear if the Honduran teen understood him because he is not fluent in English, according to Reveal. In the video, one of the employees can be heard telling the deputy that the teenager does not speak English.
The MP never informed the teenager that he would be arrested.
When the teenager stands several meters away from the police officer and has his hands folded in front of his body, the deputy gropes him for a total of 35 seconds.
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“Where are you taking me?” The teenager asks in Spanish.
“El dummo,” replied the deputy in the body camera video. The video shows the teen being put on the back of a patrol car and a deputy says he is being taken to a youth facility, but was not heard reading his Miranda rights to him in the 13-minute video that KSAT from Reveal Rev.
The teenager came to the United States after escaping a gang in Honduras that beat him and threatened his life, Reveal reported, citing a family member in Central America they reached by phone. After his trip to the United States, he spent nine months in five different animal shelters, from California to Virginia to Texas.
According to Reveal, “The boy in this video was arrested on charges of criminal mischief. Bexar County officials do not disclose whether the boy has been charged with a crime, and if so, whether he has been found guilty. When Reveal asked to question Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar about the incident, his spokeswoman said she was unaware of the case.
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Because he is a minor and has not been identified, KSAT is unable to review court records related to the case, including his current immigration status and the order of criminal misconduct charges.
Reveal obtained the footage through an open request to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
However, after the video was released, the Sheriff’s Office Open Records Officer requested a reveal reporter to destroy the video because it was accidentally released. In a statement to KSAT 12 News, the sheriff’s office said it would not release the footage because it is an active investigation and the footage is about a minor.
“Reveal is not going to destroy the video. There is a strong public interest in its appearance, ”write the authors of the publication. “The child’s grandmother told Reveal that she would like the video to be released so the public can understand what can happen in migrant child shelters in the United States.”
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The incident also caught the attention of Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, who described the footage in a statement to KSAT as “terrible and a clear example of excessive violence and excessive policing”.
“I call for a full investigation into this incident by the US Department of Health’s inspector-general, as well as the department’s guidelines on the use of local police and a review of staff training and trauma-informed care for refugee housing staff practices,” Castro said in one Explanation. “No matter who you are or where you come from, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect by law enforcement agencies.”
KSAT has contacted Southwest Key Programs for a comment and we are still waiting for a response.
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