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14 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
When police in northern Mexico allegedly shot 19 people, including at least 14 Guatemalan migrants, to death in late Jan. near the Texas border, it was a tragedy that critics say authorities had been warned could come. (1/5) - @NBCLatino #NBCNewsThreads nbcnews.to/3ak8rBL
@NBCLatino A dozen officers of the 150-member Special Operations Group, known by its Spanish initials as GOPES, have now been ordered to be held for trial in the alleged slayings. (2/5)
But critics say authorities had ample warning of the problems in the unit. In November, a Tamaulipas business association charged that GOPES officers broke into and robbed a member’s home. The complaint was ignored, and nothing was ever done to rein the unit in. (3/5)
“If back then they had done something, if any attention had been paid, perhaps today we would not be mourning the deaths of 19 people,” says Marco Antonio Mariño. (4/5)
Oscar Hernández says the problem is not just limited to killings.

“It’s not news that some police units get involved in this kind of thing, not just violence, which is the most visible, but other things like aiding and abetting, and corruption,” he says. (5/5)

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