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Families of 2 men killed in boat strike sue Trump administration over attack they call 'unlawful'
Headline from WHEC Rochester
Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October are suing the federal government, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign.
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The lawsuit was brought under the century-old Death on the High Seas Act, which allows family members of people killed in international waters to sue for wrongful death.
The families of two Trinidadian men who were killed in an Oct. 14 strike on an alleged drug boat accuse the U.S. of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings.
Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October are suing the federal government, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign.
The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela.
The families of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a boat strike sued the U.S. government, arguing the "premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification."
The families of two Trinidadian men killed in an Oct. 14 Operation Southern Spear boat strike are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing, claiming they were innocent passengers on what the Pentagon has insisted was a drug-trafficking vessel.
As the US military began launching strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean last year, a young Trinidadian man who was in Venezuela for work was searching for a way home, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Family members of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in October sued the U.S. government Tuesday, accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings
The mother and sister of two Trinidadian citizens who the Trump administration killed in a mid-October boat strike have sued the government in federal court…
