After Six Long Years

I took this video on March 2, 2018 in Nogales, Mexico.

Just a month ago I was still reflecting on my days exploring the U.S. - Mexico Border.

I mentioned in this post that the first stop after we crossed the border from Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico (originally a unified city now divided by a wall) was a small shrine. I stood with my "Welcome the Stranger" group on the very corner where José Antonio Elena Rodriguez was killed by the U.S. Border Patrol.

I stood where he stood in Nogales, Mexico and squinted to see the space in the wall from which the agent Lonnie Swartz fired 16 rounds. Watch the video above for this perspective.

We held hands together and prayed for a verdict that would finally give José Antonio's family the justice they so craved and deserved. José Antonio was killed in 2012.

And today, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, the Arizona jury reached a verdict . Not guilty.
Unfortunately, this NPR article omits his first name of José from the article.

A cross sits where Jose Antonio died on a busy sidewalk in Nogales.