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An probe has been launched into what Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has described arsenic an “execution,” aft a video circulating connected section media appeared to amusement Mexican service unit dragging men successful civilian covering retired of a car, beating them, and past engaging successful a shootout.
“Apparently, determination was an execution, which cannot beryllium allowed. We are not the aforesaid arsenic the erstwhile governments. So, erstwhile determination is abuse, erstwhile determination is an excess, erstwhile quality rights are violated, those liable indispensable beryllium punished. And the process to deepen the probe has already begun,” Lopez Obrador said during a property league connected Wednesday.
He added, “there is nary cover-up due to the fact that we bash not tolerate the usurpation of quality rights.”
CNNE obtained 32 minutes of footage from the video, of which 20 minutes are unedited. CNN has not been capable to verify the root of the worldly independently.
The footage shows a achromatic car speeding disconnected the roadworthy onto an unpaved area, past crashing into a fence. Less than a infinitesimal later, a Mexican Army conveyance is seen pulling up to the crashed vehicle.
Men successful subject covering are past seen opening the vehicle’s doors, dragging radical out, pushing them to the ground, and kicking and hitting them. They are besides seen removing items from the vehicle, including what appears to beryllium a gun.
About 5 minutes into the video, the uniformed men enactment the others up against the fence, arsenic the service conveyance retreats. Minutes later, the uniformed men are seen adjacent to the achromatic conveyance shooting into the bushes successful the distance, though it is unclear who oregon what they are shooting at.
Clouds of ungraded could besides beryllium seen from that absorption earlier they began firing, perchance indicating shots coming toward the country from afar.
Further into the video, 2 uniformed men are seen pointing a weapon astatine 1 of the men who was dragged retired of the vehicle, who is seen attempting to crawl away. The antheral successful civilian covering is past seen rolling implicit and collapsing; helium does not look to determination for the remainder of the video.
A uniformed antheral past appears to drawback what looks similar a weapon with a rag and spot it astatine the scene.
CNN has reached retired to Mexico’s subject regarding what was seen successful the video.
In a study leaked to CNN, the country’s subject alleged that the radical successful the motortruck that crashed had been trying to debar police, and that its members saw the radical carrying “military” equipment, which had the stamp of Cartel del Noreste connected them.
One of the passengers successful the conveyance was injured and being fixed aesculapian attention, according to the report, erstwhile the subject was attacked by “people trying to prevention the individuals successful the truck.”
Shots were coming from each directions, it said, adding that the subject members told the truck’s passengers to instrumentality cover, but they attempted to retrieve their weapons instead.
Following the alleged shootout, the soldiers saw that 4 radical did not person captious signs and 1 was successful captious condition, it besides said. CNN cannot independently verify the claims successful the report.
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