Attorneys for Araceli Rodriguez, Elena Rodriguez's mother, filed a civil suit in July against Border Patrol agents involved in the death, alleging that one or more "John Does," as their complaint then termed the agents involved, had used "unreasonable and excessive force," violating the boy's Fourth
Similarly, Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who is helping represent Araceli Rodriguez, said he could not find a single example of a law-enforcement officer's name being withheld in a court proceeding.