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   On 16 Oct 2023, Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth   
    posted some news:ugjpqh$1ifnl$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > Note to tribe.  Make five agents disappear.  You know how.  Anyone who   
   > comes looking for them, make them disappear permanently too.   
      
   SELLS, Ariz. (AP) — The Tohono O'odham Nation in southern Arizona on   
   Friday blasted the decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office not to   
   prosecute Border Patrol agents who shot and killed a member of the tribe   
   after they were summoned by tribal police.   
      
   Body camera footage released in June by U.S. Customs and Border   
   Protection shows that the agents who fatally shot Raymond Mattia were   
   concerned the 58-year-old may have been carrying a handgun. But no   
   firearm was found.   
      
   The tribe's executive office called the decision not to file charges “a   
   travesty of justice.”   
      
   “There are countless questions left unanswered by this decision. As a   
   result, we cannot and will not accept the U.S. Attorney’s decision,”   
   said a statement signed by Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Verlon M. Jose   
   and Vice Chairwoman Carla L. Johnson.   
      
   The statement said the tribe may request Congressional inquiries into   
   Mattia's death. Mattia was killed the night of May 18 outside a home in   
   the reservation’s Menagers Dam community near the U.S.-Mexico border.   
      
   The U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement this week that its   
   employees met with Mattia's family and their attorneys in Sells on Sept.   
   19 to explain the decision.   
      
   “The agents' use of force under the facts and circumstances presented in   
   this case does not rise to the level of a federal criminal civil rights   
   violation or a criminal violation assimilated under Arizona law,” the   
   office concluded. “We stand by our conclusion, and we hear the   
   Chairman’s frustration,” the statement added.   
      
   U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond Friday to   
   emails requesting comment.   
      
   The shooting occurred after Border Patrol agents were called to the area   
   by the Tohono O’odham Nation Police Department for help responding to a   
   report of shots fired.   
      
   Body camera footage shows Mattia throwing a sheathed machete at the foot   
   of a tribal officer and then holding out his arm. After Mattia was shot   
   and on the ground, an agent declares: “He’s still got a gun in his   
   hand.”   
      
   CBP said earlier that the three Border Patrol agents who opened fire and   
   at least seven others at the scene were wearing body cameras and   
   activated them during the shooting.   
      
   The Pima County Medical Examiner's Office reported that Mattia had nine   
   gunshot wounds.   
      
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/arizona-tribe-is-protesting-the-deci   
   sion-not-to-prosecute-border-patrol-agents-for-fatal-shooting/ar-AA1iaZVa   
      
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