Advocates have demanded $100 million in damages on behalf of the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent last year.
HOUSTON — Advocates demanded $100 million in damages Thursday on behalf of the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman who wasThe legal claim on behalf of Claudia Patricia Gómez González was filed one year after she died. It comes as the U.S. government grapples withcrossing its southern border and the deaths of six children in the last year after being apprehended by border agents.
The claim says Gómez González"posed no threat to anyone, as would have been obvious from the slightest glance." The claim says she was unarmed and not fleeing as others in the group of migrants were. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol's parent agency, declined to comment Thursday. CBP's initial statement on May 23, 2018, about Gómez González's death said that the agent used his gun after being attacked by"multiple subjects using blunt objects." The agency called Gómez González an assailant.
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