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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: America's Most Wanted Takes Credit for a Killing By Jim Gordon Nowadays one can be portrayed as a wanton murderer on a nationally televised program, get killed by police less than 48 hours later, and have the nation invited by television to applaud the death within the week. That fate befell Cesar Mazariego-Molina, 26, an undocumented worker from El Salvador, who L.A. County sheriff's deputies said killed rookie Sheriff's Deputy Nelson Yamamoto in a gun battle. Less than two days after the case was featured on the TV program America's Most Wanted, New York State police killed him with a shotgun blast to the back of the head. Mazariego-Molina's family contends he was the victim of vigilante justice, encouraged by perhaps intentionally erroneous information from the L.A. Sheriff's Department transmitted by a national television broadcast. Mazariego-Molina was wanted in the killing of Yamamoto, who died in a shootout at the home of Homero-Isadoro Ibarra in East Los Angeles on March 29. Ibarra was killed in the incident; his children allegedly identified Mazariego-Molina as taking part in the battle. Sheriff's Department officials contacted producers of the Fox network's television program. In a six-minute segment headed "Cop Killers" (4/6/92), the show broadcast photos of Mazariego-Molina along with interviews with angry deputies and Yamamoto's girlfriend. Host John Walsh described Mazariego-Molina as a convicted rapist who had murdered his uncle and was a member of El Salvador's death squads. A detective said of the suspect, "He has no value for human life. Killing, to him, is like a hobby." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1485 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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