From today's Washington Post: INS Officers Charged in Immigrant's Death --another case of police brutality.

"In an early morning raid in March 2001, federal agents burst into a house northwest of Houston, arrested 20 illegal immigrants and beat one of them, Serafin Olvera-Carrera, to the point of paralysis. Olvera was never able to speak again, and he died of his injuries 11 months later."

"Today, three of the agents, all from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, were charged with violating the civil rights of Olvera, a father of five who had been in the country a decade legally before allowing his immigration status to lapse just before the raid."

"The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Houston, charges one of the INS officers, Carlos Reyna, with giving Olvera a beating that apparently caused a traumatic injury to his spinal cord. Another officer, Richard Gonzales, was charged with dousing him with pepper spray. Both of those agents as well as a third, Louis Gomez, were charged with denying him medical care. All the agents were based in the San Antonio INS office. If convicted, the agents face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000."