Last night PBS premiered The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez on their documentary series P.O.V. The movie, narrated by Tommy Lee Jones, examines the 1997 case of United States Marines mistakenly gunning down American citizen Esequiel Hernandez who was tending his family’s goats in West Texas. The troops, dispatched for “the war on drugs,” mistook Hernandez for a drug trafficker. In the above trailer, we learn that no one was ever punished for the crime, the family never got answers as to why it happened, lawmakers would love to have the U.S. military guarding our borders again and just a lot of the same old bullshit that goes on in this country when it comes to brown people. The show replays on PBS all month. Check local listings here.

POV 2008: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez [POV]