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by callmeal
1721 days ago
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> From https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/border-patrol-hai... Ratje said he saw a Border Patrol agent swing his horse’s rein in the air while migrants were in the river. One migrant who was holding bags of food fell backward.
As some migrants tried to get past Border Patrol agents, Ratje took photos, including one that would later go viral. Ratje saw the agent swing his rein vertically, spot a Haitian migrant in a black shirt carrying bags of food, and then pursue him
The Border Patrol agent “is grabbing the Haitian with his right hand and has his reins in his left hand. The rein swings up,” Ratje said. The migrant then “got swung around,” Ratje said, but the agent eventually let go.
Nice. The rein "swings up" and the migrant "got swung around". Purely through divine intervention we presume. We also presume that when the agent eventually let go, the person was stood back on the ground without any excessive force A separate video tweeted by John Holman, a correspondent for Al Jazeera, showed a Border Patrol agent yelling at Haitian migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande with food. A video showed a Border Patrol agent in the river yelling at migrants: “Hey you use your women? This is why your country’s s—, because you use your women for this!”
Even nicer: yelling at women who are trying to get food and water to feed their children and families. |
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>Ratje told PolitiFact that his photographs didn’t show signs of agents whipping any migrants or using anything as a whip to strike them.
>"Nobody saw a Border Patrol agent whipping," he said. "What we did see was a Border Patrol agent swinging the rein in like a circle. It looked pretty threatening. Nobody saw him strike the migrant with that thing, the reins.
>"I asked other colleagues, ‘Did you see him whipping?’ No," he added. "That stuff got misconstrued.
Truth is there was no whipping of immigrants. That part was completely misinformation.