Civil Air Patrol, a volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Airforce, monitored the region where Tohono O'odham protested the U.S. Border Patrol at the Ajo station on Saturday. The surveillance began as supporters were traveling to the protest. They called for justice for Raymond Mattia, murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol. A second Civil Air Patrol plane surveilled the area where Raymond lived and was murdered, on Sunday morning. Live radar screenshots by Censored News.
Civil Air Patrol Surveilled Area of Border Patrol Protest -- Tohono O'odham Demand Justice for Raymond Mattia
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
AJO, Arizona -- The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Airforce manned by volunteers, surveilled the area where Tohono O'odham protested the U.S. Border Patrol at Ajo on Saturday morning. The aerial surveillance included the western portion of the Tohono O'odham Nation where Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, was murdered by the Border Patrol.
The monitoring on Saturday morning began at 6 am. when the Civil Air Patrol plane departed from Mesa in the Phoenix area, and continued during the time that supporters were traveling to the protest.
The Civil Air Patrol plane departed from Falcon Field Mesa, just south of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, and landed near Sonoyta, which is located south of the protest at the Ajo Border Patrol station. It was documented live on Flight Radar. The five-hour flight of CAP206 returned to Phoenix for landing.
A second Civil Air Patrol plane surveilled the border area where Raymond Mattia lived and was murdered the next day after the protest, on Sunday morning. The second Civil Air Patrol plane departed from Tucson and traveled along the border.
The Civil Air Patrol is often on patrol in the Nogales area south of Tucson, but there are no records of flights in the area of the western Tohono O'odham Nation in recent time.
Censored News tracked the surveillance using live radar on Saturday morning before the protest began.
(Below) On Sunday, a second Civil Air Patrol plane surveilled the border region where Raymond lived and was murdered, and where the protest was held at the Ajo Border Patrol station in Why, Arizona, near the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation. The plane, CAP265, departed Tucson International Airport at 6:30 a.m., flew over the Tohono O'odham Nation at the border, and landed back at the Tucson airport at 10:40 a.m.
(Below) Civil Air Patrol from Mesa in the Phoenix Valley surveilled the area during the protest of the U.S. Border Patrol, traveling from Mesa. It then surveilled the area of the western part of the Tohono O'odham Nation where Raymond Mattia was murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol. The Flight Radar shows it concluded the flight in the Sonoyta area, near the Ajo Border Patrol Station. (The black line designates where there was no radar available across the western Tohono O'odham Nation.)
(Below) A detailed view shows that the Civil Air Patrol departed from Mesa, at an area between Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, and Holden Rock in Mesa.
The flight records show that neither of these planes has been in the western Tohono O'odham Nation region in recent times, until the flights on Saturday and Sunday.
More:
Ajo and Tucson Protests on Saturday
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/civil-air-patrol-surveilled-area-of.html
Mattia family statement on the death of Raymond Mattia
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/statement-from-mattia-family-excessive.html
Description of Arizona Civil Air Patrol
https://azwg.cap.gov/about/what-we-do
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