Pubdate: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 Source: El Paso Times (TX) Copyright: 2002 El Paso Times Contact: http://www.elpasotimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/829 Author: Peter Brock, Community liaison for U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n212/a13.html Related: real facts at http://www.dpft.org/hernandez/gallery/index.html LETTER DISPUTED Facts ARE facts! Letter writer Michael Jefferson ("Reyes knows better," Feb. 8), may assume his opinion to be factual. He should know about the shooting of Ezekiel Hernandez Jr. in 1997 better than anybody, yet he took U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes' statement out of context. The facts reveal the 17-year-old Redford boy who was killed in 1997 did NOT "shoot at the Marines" but at movement in some brush he thought might be predators after his goats. The Times reported Feb. 2: "Reyes said he thinks that tragedy occurred 'because they were out there by themselves and had no one to tell them: Don't shoot an individual when we don't have all the facts...' " Reyes did NOT say, as Jefferson claimed, "Don't shoot an individual when we don't know all the facts." Jefferson also wrote: "...The investigation also revealed the young man shot at two Border Patrol agents in the same area two months before his death..." Again, the Redford boy thought he was shooting at predators endangering his goats and not at Border Patrol agents, who identified themselves. Nobody is more supportive of Joint Task Force 6 than Reyes. The facts behind Reyes' Feb. 2 statements, and Jefferson's distortions are easily verified. Peter Brock Community liaison for U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake