Teenage Thieves Abused By Vigilantes
Raw video,text from source : Several hours after five teenagers were caught stealing from a luxury apartment in the Mexican city of Tepic two weeks ago, they were found half naked and severely beaten on one of the city's main thoroughfares. A week later, mobile phone footage documenting the psychological abuse they were subjected to surfaced on YouTube.
One of our Observers in Mexico, Gabriel
More.. Infante brought our attention to this footage.
The footage was filmed on October 13 and posted online on October 20. How the footage found itself on YouTube and Facebook is still a mystery. The only explanation is that it was posted online by one of the aggressors.
The youths and the police agree that they were arrested by officers - but the police deny having any involvement in the abuse which followed, pointing out that they use different rifles and not the AK-47 seen in the video (at 00:31 seconds we see what looks like the shadow of a rifle).
Nayarit governor Ney González said on October 25 that "Justice cannot be carried out at home" and that "They're as bad as each other". He gave the district attorney and the head of police a 12-hour time limit to produce substantial findings on the case.
On Monday morning, the district attorney announced that four suspects had been arrested. Apparently they had been boasting about the incident in a local bar, and somebody phoned the police. An AK-47 was indeed found in their possession - albeit a toy one.
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Added: Oct 27 2009 In: news_politics
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