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TOTM
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Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:30 am
Mmmnn yeah... That first one is a damn pearla! Hell, all of 'em leave me gasping, I'm in luurrrve...
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saL
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Sat Nov 02, 2013 8:01 pm
El Mac just shared this impressive drawing together with this heavy story. Please read:
On the night of October 10, 2012 around 11:30 p.m., José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a 16-year-old resident of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was killed (shot 10 times mostly in the back) by US Border Patrol agents through the border fence, while walking along the street to visit his brother at work.
For the last year, his family and their supporters have faced a wall of silence trying to learn the truth about what happened that night. Border Patrol, the FBI, and the Department of Justice have all been unwilling to release information about their “investigation” that so far has yielded no answers—no names of the agents involved, no information on their active duty status (according to policy, they are most likely working in the field to this day), and no release of the video taken by a border security camera.
The agents that killed José Antonio fired on him from atop a 25-foot embankment, from behind the 20-foot-tall steel border wall and a dense area of foliage, and 30 feet across the street. Those who visit the site come back with no doubt that this was an unlawful and entirely pointless killing.
An eyewitness reports that José Antonio was simply walking down the street, and was not involved in rock-throwing against agents at the border wall. The autopsy report released by the Mexican government gives a chilling account—the boy was struck by 10 bullets, nine of them in the back after he was already on the ground.
The excessive use of force that resulted in José Antonio’s, and about 20 other recent border deaths is not the action of isolated “bad apples.” Rather, it is a consequence of the Border Patrol’s militarized approach to border enforcement.
To help demand justice for José Antonio and others like him please visit: http://www.nomoredeaths.org/nomasmatanzas
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TOTM
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Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:22 am
Nice one saL, as always mate! Where'd you find that? If ya don't mind of course… Incredible story & an amazing drawing for sure, kinda reminds me of those spirally type thingee sketches you used to do as a kid… But so, so much better!
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saL
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Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:58 am
TOTM wrote:Nice one saL, as always mate! Where'd you find that? If ya don't mind of course… Incredible story & an amazing drawing for sure, kinda reminds me of those spirally type thingee sketches you used to do as a kid… But so, so much better!
sure thing, he posted this on
his Facebook, and
his Instagram...
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TOTM
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Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:46 am
Jaha! Of course… Social media, I really must get with it one of these days. Thanks so much for those links duder, especially the instagram one… WOW!!! Some astonishing stuff on there, don't think I've ever seen those pencils before either, really exquisite work! Especially the 400AD Viking Woman, the Caravaggio Museum Sketch & that Guitar Playing Kimberz… Man, I could stare at that fudge all drymounting day long, so serene, cheers again mate, appreciate it!
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saL
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Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:58 am
after dealing with some health problems, El Mac is happy to be working again:

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danielrolnik
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Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:51 pm
El Mac just did a mural in downtown Los Angeles across from the Staples Center for Red Bull.