Posted on 04/29/2007 4:09:52 PM PDT by kellynla
A surveillance videotape currently playing on YouTube is giving a "Here we go again!" feel to the decision by prosecutors to charge yet another U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Nicholas Corbett, with murder.
The video appears to involve an incident on the California border where a Border Patrol agent shoots in the chest an illegal alien who appears ready to hit him with a rock.
Interestingly, there are actually two border patrol cases that fit this scenario.
A date stamp on the video identifies the incident occurring on March 26, 2007, at the border near Calexico, Mexico.
The video is being widely identified on the Internet with the Corbett incident, But the Corbett incident occurred Jan. 12, 2007.
Both incidents involve remarkably similar circumstances – a Border Patrol Agent who shoots an illegal immigrant in the chest at close range to prevent the illegal immigrant from hitting him with a rock.
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Corbett has been charged with murder for fatally shooting Francisco Dominguez-Rivera who was preparing to hit him with a rock.
The video mentions that the officer in the March 26 incident was placed on a three-day leave following the incident, but fails to name the Border Patrol agent involved.
The emerging details of the case bear an eerie resemblance to the facts that have put Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in prison for shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler, and Rocksprings, Texas, Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez in prison for shooting at a fleeing van of illegal aliens who had tried to run him over.
In all three cases, no prosecutions of the border law-enforcement officers were contemplated until the Mexican Consulate intervened to demand prosecutions in order to protect the civil rights of their Mexican nationals who were in the U.S. illegally.
Additionally, the prosecution in all three cases is relying on testimony of illegal immigrant witnesses whose testimony may have been coached by Mexican Consulate officials.
According to the Associated Press, a May 17th preliminary court hearing was set in Douglas, Ariz., to determine whether or not there is sufficient probable cause to try Corbett for murder.
Corbett was given a mandatory three-day leave following the Jan. 12 shooting. He returned to duty until he was taken into custody a week ago. At a hearing Friday, April 27, Corbett was released on his own recognizance. He has been placed on administrative leave by the Border Patrol until the charges against him are resolved.
The Border Patrol immediately notified the Cochise County Sheriff's Office of the shooting.
U.S. investigators from the Border Patrol were in the process of interviewing six illegal immigrants who were witnesses to the event, when officials from the Mexican Consul's Office in Douglas, Ariz., arrived at the Naco Border Patrol Station.
The Mexican consul demanded to speak with the witnesses, and Darcy Olmos, the patrol agent in charge at the Naco station interrupted the U.S. investigation so the Mexican consul could interview the witnesses first.
This decision by Olmos has led to charges that the Mexican consul was able to coach up to three witnesses prior to the witnesses giving statements to the U.S. investigators.
According to the AP, the Cochise County prosecutors claim to have reviewed some 300 pages of documents that purportedly substantiate that Corbett's account does not match the testimony of the witnesses or forensic evidence.
The Border Patrol is investigating how the surveillance videotape being shown currently on YouTube was obtained and released to the public.
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From the video I’ve seen it sure looks like a justified shooting. What kind of a moron attacks a cop who already has his weapon trained on them?
That is because the criminal illegal alien border violators commit attempted murder in this manor every day.
It’s called appeasement... to let a pit bull mount your wife and loved ones and run the house is supposed to be the humane thing to do nowadays... not shoot it when it bites you to death cuz it becomes territorial.
Let us face it, both illegals and law abiders are not happy when anarchy is rampant, but for some reason no lawyer wants anyone happy... it would be too bad for their publicity.
BTW. I see that the video is now nowhere to be found on the net. We wouldn’t want the facts to inadvertently get in the way of a prosecution.
Interesting...Mr. Corsi says that the video is widely confused on the Internet with the January shooting. I know that happened here on FR...I wonder, did it actually happen elsewhere?
I know that the video I saw shows an agent and an illegal standing only a few yards apart. The agent has his rife up and trained on the illegal when the illegal clearly cocks his arm back to throw the lock and the agent fires.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
That’s the only video on the ‘net; and depicts the incident in Calexico.
The video of the Corbett shooting near Douglas (AZ) has not been released.
Don’t bring a rock to a gunfight?
Good advice.
The Enemy Within strikes again. With friends like Gonzales and Sutton, who needs Pelosi and Reid?
OK.
The sad thing is that this sort of thing his happening with increasing frequency and leading to the confusion but I suspect there are plenty who want to confuse things.
Thank you.
A drugged out crack head, most likely.
Heck, they should just take the guns from the Border Patrol and issue them white flags and "Welcome to America" signs. Maybe even issue them bags of money to give to the illegals, just to get them started out on the right foot you know.
I just saw a video linked from WND that shows a border patrol agent defending himself from an ILLEGAL just a few feet away who is getting ready to clobber the border patrol agent. Self defense doesn’t seem to be an excuse from being prosecuted by the ILLEGAL protecting Bush administration.
“W”ism will claim another innocent Border Patrolmen. I swear George is working in concert with the Democrats to ruin our nation.
An important fact to consider, when weighing the testimony of illegal immigrants in these cases, is that if you are a victim of “violent assault” and “cooperate” with the investigation, this nation will give you legal status with what I believe is called an “H” visa.
I had a drunken “victim” who allowed me to fish his ID from his pocket after have his ear severely sliced in a fight outside a bar.
An immigration firm contacted me requesting that I sign the paperwork stating he cooperated. I declined to sign.
Get shot by border patrol for being a criminal and then get declared a victim. Then you get to stay in the USA legally.
Just like the troops, they are tying the border guards hands and making them second guess. This is no way to guard the border and no way to fight a war and an enemy that wants to kill you, me and our families! Just sit back and watch the show, before you know it they will be literally in your living room with you!
Seems like the Feds are really anxious to find anything the border agents do is unjustified. They just want to have them stand there for appearances’ sake, and do nothing.
“Just sit back and watch the show, before you know it they will be literally in your living room with you!”
Not after the election next year...
we’re gonna end this silliness pronto!
The GOP is gonna have to put up a presidential candidate who will ENFORCE THE IMMIGRATION LAWS, DEPORT THE ILLEGALS AND SECURE THE BORDERS or you can expect a third party candidate to appear on the scene ala Tancredo or Hunter...
Don’t leave out their boss who is behind this.
I always manage not to bash Bush over this. I guess I am in deep denial.
Illegal aliens are becoming sacred cows and they are given a pass to invade this country. Insanity.
If you were President would you support Alberto Gonzales and Johnny Sutton?
I would never have given them a job.
Gonzales and Sutton belong in jail.
Perhaps their boss does too.
Disgusting. I am so sick of these good people continually having to defend themselves from the Mexican perpetrators and from the US Govt. HELP! Beam me up, Scotty.
If another open borders globalist wins the '08 presidential election, the real meaning of "vigilante" will become well known. Americans aren't going to put up with this crap anymore.
Americans are sick of the GOP AND DEMOCRAT thugs in Washington selling us out. We're being treated like we're idiots when our "leaders" tell us that the borders are being protected, and if we REALLY want to have them protected, just wait until this amnesty is granted, and everything will be A0K then. Treason abounds in Washington, right up to the top.
Sing it, sister.
One would have to assume there is a purpose for the continued prosecution of border patrol agents. It starts at the top.
Yes, that's what I think too. That Mexican was getting ready to smash him in the head. He did it in self defense. I guess Bush has put the word out that all Border Agents are criminals and should be the guilty ones in any incident.
LOL!
Open Borders Bush!!
The illegal was NOT about to throw the rock at the BP agent. He was faced to throw the rock at the vehicle to the right of the shooting.
Illegals are illegals, but to be so dishonest as to say the illegal was about to “smash” the BP agent in the head isn’t honest. Look at the video.
If the autopsy on the illegal shot by Corbett is accurate, he was shot from above, with the bullet traversing from upper left to lower right. That is an execution shot. Corbett should fry for it.
If I were a BP, I’d sit in my station and play *count the illegals”. No patroling, no contact, no conversation. Collect my paycheck and go home. Why take the risk?
Of course, this would also make the President, his Corp croonies, and the OBL very happy.
If I were a BP, I’d sit in my station and play *count the illegals”. No patroling, no contact, no conversation. Collect my paycheck and go home. Why take the risk?
Of course, this would also make the President, his Corp croonies, and the OBL very happy.
Good idea : )
Yes, he was! I played the video in slow motion and you can tell from the position of his legs and his arm that he was swinging around to gather more strength to throw the rock at the Border Patrol guard.
Illegals are illegals, but to be so dishonest as to say the illegal was about to “smash” the BP agent in the head isn’t honest. Look at the video.
You should just admit that you are either a Mexican who has family in Mexico or you have an axe to grind with me from another thread. You never responded to anyone else on this thread and many said things as bad or comparable to what I said.
If the autopsy on the illegal shot by Corbett is accurate, he was shot from above, with the bullet traversing from upper left to lower right. That is an execution shot. Corbett should fry for it.
Not only are you dishonest but you are stupid. This isn't even the Corbett shooting. When that was pointed out to you, you didn't even answer the FReeper who told you to read the article that it is NOT Corbett.
If you note, I made the comment that in the Corbett shooting (which the article is about) the bullet passed from upper left to lower right according to the autopsy. Now, since you saw the video of the California shooting, you know that it isn’t possible for me to be speaking of the Corbett shooting (in reference to the video on YouTube)as the illegal was hit once in the head/neck area with a shotgun round, and not from above like Corbett.
The California video shows the illegal faced at 45 degrees away from the agent, with his arm already moving forward and to the right. It would not be possible for that rock to be thrown at the agent who shot him. What is not known is whether there was an agent in the truck the illegal was about to throw his rock at.
As for being Mexican or having family in Mexico; you are barking up the wrong tree on that one. Scot-Irish through and through, with no family or in-laws of Latino extraction. But I do live very close to the AZ-Mexico border, and have to deal with the scourge of illegals every day. Nor have I ever responded to you on another thread. The reason I responded to you is because you said the illegal was getting ready to smash him in the head.
Now do you get the picture, or do I have to draw it crayon for you?
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