U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on June 22 released body camera footage of the fatal nighttime shooting of Ray Mattia outside his Tohono O’odham Nation home in Arizona on May 18.
Ten Border Patrol agents captured the incident on their body-worn cameras, most of which was withheld from the public by CBP, pending an investigation.
“The footage being released today contains imagery from four of those cameras,” CBP said in a press release.
“CBP’s prompt public release of this footage is in keeping with our commitment to accountability and transparency and in compliance with CBP policy.”
Mattias family spokeswoman Ofelia Rivas stands while propping a sign with a picture of Ray Mattia, who was shot and killed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on May 18, 2023. The photo was taken during a protest in front of the Ajo Border Patrol Station in Why, Ariz., on May 27, 2023. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times)
The images show officers with flashlights and weapons drawn approaching a man who throws an object at Border Patrol agents, determined by law enforcement to be a sheathed machete….