How an Arizona officer accused of hitting a migrant with his truck could put his agency’s toxic culture on trial
The text exchanges between Bowen and fellow agents — entered into the court record by the defense, which seeks to exlude them at trial — suggest a work environment in which demeaning epithets, ranging from “guat” to “fucking beaners,” are common, and in which violence against undocumented border crossers is treated as a joke.
The defendant’s belief that Border Patrol was too restrictive in what it allows its agents to do to “apprehend wild ass runners who don’t want to be apprehended” is relevant to whether the defendant willfully used his F-150 to effect the arrest of the fleeing alien in this case.
According to the government, “pit” describes the “Precision Immobilization Technique” in which a law enforcement vehicle “disables a fleeing target vehicle” by striking it “so it spins out and stops.” The prosecutors insist: “A ‘human pit maneuver’ is not a recognized law enforcement term but it is an accurate description of the defendant’s actions in the charged crime,” citing video evidence from the scene that has not been made public.
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