Vigilante Video to Be Part of Probe

Mexican officials said Monday they have delivered new information about the January killings of vigilantes during clashes with soldiers and police, as part of a probe of possible excessive force.
The information handed over includes a new video from which "one can infer presumed acts of excessive use of force or abuse of authority by elements of the Federal Police," the Office of the Federal Security Commission said in a statement. The video was received from an anonymous tipster and delivered to prosecutors and Federal Police "for the purpose of knowing in detail what happened ... (and) so that they carry out the appropriate investigations," the statement read.
The clashes took place Jan. 6 in Apatzingan, in the southwestern state of Michoacan. Nine civilians died as police moved to dislodge members of self-defense militia groups that formed in 2013 to fight the Knights Templar drug gang.