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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Arizona tribe protests lack of charges for border agents who killed Raymond Mattia

A round brown-skinned Native man, wearing a billed hat, a blue checked shirt buttoned almost to the neck, and jeans, holds a long thick stick festooned with multicolored ribbons in his left hand, holding his right hand out, alongside a low fence of wooden posts.
Verlon Jose is the chair of the Tohono O’odham Nation, seen here at the US-Mexico border in 2020. Photograph: Nina Lakhani/The Guardian

Native American tribal leaders in Arizona are protesting a US attorney’s decision not to prosecute federal border agents who shot dead an unarmed tribe member on their reservation in May.

Raymond Mattia was killed when the agents responded to a call for help by tribal police of the Tohono O’odham Nation after they received reports of shots fired in the Menagers Dam community near the US-Mexico border.

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