"Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo are presumed dead after a U.S. missile hit the boat they were taking home to Trinidad last October. President Trump said the strike targeted narco terrorists when he posted the video online, but families of those men say they had no ties to the drug trade. Now Joseph's mother and Samaroo's sister are suing the U.S. government in federal court in Massachusetts."
"BRETT MAX KAUFMAN: These are totally unjustifiable killings by an administration that has claimed the right to abuse executive power with impunity. JOHNSON: Brett Max Kaufman's one of their lawyers. KAUFMAN: The government has trumpeted these strikes on social media with splashy videos. But our lawsuit makes clear that each of these 36 strikes, which have killed more than 130 people, have devastating human costs."
"Their court papers allege violations of the Alien Tort Statute. That law allows foreign citizens to sue over extrajudicial killing. They're also relying on a separate law that makes the U.S. government liable if it causes a wrongful death in international waters. That one's called the Death on the High Seas Act. Jeffrey Stein is an ACLU lawyer working for the families."
Two Trinidadian men, Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, are presumed dead after a U.S. missile struck the boat they were taking to Trinidad off Venezuela in October. Their relatives have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts against the U.S. government, alleging extrajudicial killings. The complaint invokes the Alien Tort Statute and the Death on the High Seas Act to seek compensation and accountability. Lawyers state the strikes were part of a series that included 36 strikes and killed over 130 people, and they characterize the killings as homicide and wrongful deaths despite administration claims the targets were narco-terrorists.
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