o please, did you read any of the transcripts of the case? Other border agents testified against them saying they never felt any life threatening force from the illegal. And they cleaned the area of the shell casings and did not report the shooting as they were supposed to. I don’t think they should have been prosecuted...but something had to be done due to their screw up. I believe their cover up really got the government angry and they overreacted by sending it to trial. I think they should have been disiplined and fired but not sent to jail. Their job is difficult, but they are trained to have disipline to the max when using their weapons. And the prosecutors in that district routinely look at various shootings and even killings by the border agents...almost always they are seen as justifiable. These guys had to have lost it in stressful situation for the prosecutors to go after them.
With Border Agent Oscar Juarez completely changing his story no fewer than five times, I find their testimony totally unbelievable. It also appears to have been coerced as the final version, that matched exactly what prosecutors wanted to hear, came only after threat of prosecution... for being an accomplice to the murder charges filed against Ramos and Compean.
And they cleaned the area of the shell casings and did not report the shooting as they were supposed to.
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Been under a rock? They reported the shooting to their superiors who were on the scene, a verbal report is the customary method in this situation , they followed protocol, this is nothing more than a political prosecution.