CRITICAL INCIDENT revisits the 2010 demise of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died whereas in custody on the border. When eye-witness video emerges, it sparks a far-reaching investigation from a border checkpoint to Washington D.C. CRITICAL INCIDENT chronicles journalists’, attorneys’, and members of the family’ efforts to discover the Border Patrol’s involvement within the incident, finally pointing to cover-ups, and uncovering the existence of a little-known unit contained in the company that had been concerned in different border associated incidents. In 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Safety disbanded the Important Incident Groups, and the Inter-American Court docket of Human Rights held a listening to on the Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas case, finally calling for the reopening of the case and recognizing that Hernandez-Rojas’ human rights had been violated throughout his arrest.
