Trump’s chief Border Patrol agent testifies in protester assault trial

Gregory Bovino, the Chief of the US border patrol sector – was called a witness on Wednesday in the case of misdemeanor against a protester who was alleged to have shot an arrogant agent – a federal agent who took a phalanx this summer to MacArthur Park.

BOVino, one of the faces of President Trump’s hundreds of immigration pressures that began in Los Angeles and is currently ongoing in Chicago, took a stand to express an attack on June 7 by Ramos-Brito in Paramount.

Equipped in the Green Border Patrol uniform, Bovino confirmed that Ramos-Brito was dragging his arm back and hit an agent with an open palm on his chest.

The incident occurred during a collision outside the federal law enforcement officers and a federal building between the locals disappointed with Trump’s immigration policies.

During the cross -examination, Federal Public defendant Cuauhtemoc Ortega questioned BOVino a few years ago to be the subject of a abuse investigation and that he had taken a condemnation to refer to undocumented immigrants as “filth, dirt and garbage ..

Bovino refused to refuse to refuse to refuse to undocumented immigrants and said that he refers to a gil a certain criminal illegal aliens – – a citizen of Honduras, whom he said that he had raped a child and was caught in the Baton Rouge Border Patrol Station or near Baton Rouge.

“I said about a particular individual, not about the undocumented peoples, it is not true,” he said.

He pushed Ortega back, pushing back, stating that he described the “illegal aliens”.

Ortega said, “They didn’t say it’s an illegal alien,” Ortega said. “Illegal aliens and or criminals, filthy, garbage and filth, they said you have defined it as abuse. Isn’t that true?”

“The report states that, B said BOVino.

Ortega said that BOVino was warned if he makes any abuse again, “you can be fired”.

This week, more than 40 people were accused of a series of federal crimes, including the intervention of attack officers and immigration practices in the protests in the city center or on the scene of immigrant raids in the region this summer.

Ramos-Brito’s case is the first trial.

The case focuses on a protest outside the Paramount business center opposite home Depot.

The tensions were already high, the federal authorities arrested dozens of workers and the best union officials by pressing a retail and distribution warehouse in the city center of LA at the beginning of June.

At the Paramount Complex, which hosts internal security investigation offices, protesters began to arrive around 10 am on June 7 in the morning. Among them was Ramos-Brito.

A few videos played in court on Tuesday showed that Ramos-Brito and another man swore at Border Patrol Agents and stepped with mass fists from their faces. At one point, Ramos-Brito approached the multi-border patrol agents that look like Latin and said, “If you are Mexican, you are ashamed.”

Asst. We Atty. While Patrick Kibbe was shown in many protesters “passionate ,, Ramos-Brito said that the US border patrol agent Jonathan Morales crossed a line.

“There is a constitutional right to protest in a peaceful way.

However, the Federal Public Defender M. Bo Griffith said that Ramos-Brito was a victim of an attack, not any other way.

Both the social media and the camera images played in the court showed that Morales first pushed Ramos-Brito and Alondra Blvd. While the images show that Morales showed that their fists were gathered, no angle clearly captures the alleged attack.

In addition to Morales, three other agents stopped on Tuesday, but none of them said they saw Ramos-Brito hit Morales. Border Patrol Asst. Jorge Rivera-Navarro, chief of the Chief of General Staff in Los Angeles.

According to Navarro, some of the border patrol agents that have been on LA in recent months come from stations that do not wear cameras that normally worn body. He said that he has given an order that has led to the distribution of cameras to the agents working in La since then.

The conflict, which led to an attack accusation, started when Ramos-Brito stepped into the US border patrol agent Eduardo Mejorado, which again asked to switch to the sidewalk again while preventing Ramos-Brito’s protest traffic. The video shows Mejorado’s hand twice on the shoulder of Ramos-Brito on his shoulder and the defendant caught him.

At this point, Morales, a 24-year veteran of the Border Patrol, said he thought he should be and increase between the other agent and Ramos-Brito. According to the video played in the court, Ramos-Brito did by pulling back to the intersection. Morales said Ramos-Brito accused him when he was swearing and punched a punch on the upper part of his chest and throat.

On a cross -examination, Griffith faced inconsistencies between the statements of the event they had given to an internal security investigation officer and the statements in the court. Such an inconsistency did not affect the case for the first time.

Federal prosecutors previously made accusations against another protester Jose Mojica, who was arrested by Ramos-Brito after questioning the expression of an immigration agency.

According to an investigation of Mojica’s arrest by Times previously reviewed by Times, Mejorado claimed that a man had screamed on his face that he would “hit him” and then punched him in a paramount protest. The officer said that he and other agents began to chase the man, but were later “stopped by the other two men”, which was later defined as Mojica and Ramos-Brito.

The video, which was played in court on Tuesday and previously reported by The Times, shows that the event did not occur. Ramos-Brito and Mojica were arrested from a dog from agents after allegedly shot Ramos-Brito’s Mojica. There was no chase.

An internal security spokesman questioned about Mojica’s case in July, said they could not comment on the cases of “active case” cases.

Defense lawyers, Ramos-Brito’s face, neck and back on the face of more than one contusion, and then drifting over the pavement, the cuts and abrasions on his body, he said.

According to their lawyers, the previous interaction with Ramos-Brito’s law enforcement officers was for unlicensed driving.

The case may be like a bell for other immigrant protest charges that have been opened to us by acting atty. Bill Essayli is in a region where many potential jury members have negative views on immigration sanction or migrants can be themselves.

On Tuesday morning, US regional judge Stephen Wilson said that many of them would not be neutral because of their views on immigration policy.

Most of the potential jury members said that they were the first or second generation immigrants from the Philippines, Colombia, Bulgaria, Jamaica and Canada.

“I think the immigrants are part of this country and I am a little partial with the defendant,” a landscape architect from Lancaster said.