https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/28/texas-national-guard-shoots-mexican-citizen-border/

According to El Diario, a Spanish language newspaper in Juárez, Darwin José García of the southern Mexican state of Veracruz initially told police he was migrant attempting to cross into the U.S. But the man later told reporters he was practicing a sport on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande around 8:50 p.m. Saturday while a group of migrants were crossing the river, according to the newspaper. García said he then heard shots and realized he had been shot in the leg, the newspaper reported.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I meant more along the lines of the AP History class watching that schlocky piece of cinema

    Like, completely ahistorical

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Oh, this was immediately post-9/11, shit was wild back then. We also watched enemy at the gates and several other of the stock propaganda pieces in other classes to 'fill time'. Welcome to USian public high schools.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Oh, we got Enemy at the Gates, but that was pre-AP

        Everything else we watched in AP was at least decent

        Like, we watched Glory, which had Denzel