Posted on 01/20/2008 8:42:56 AM PST by John Jorsett
They've already shot up his house and gunned down three cops. He urges citizens to stand with him.
TIJUANA -- The bullet holes pockmarking the walls of his home were just three days old when Alberto Capella Ibarra took over the police force of this violence-plagued city.
Twenty gunmen dressed in black had swarmed his yard in the middle of the night, and he'd fought them off, firing an automatic rifle.
Taking office Dec. 1 as the city's secretary for public security, Capella, a longtime activist, declared war on organized crime and challenged citizens to join him in the battle.
Even he had no idea it would get so bloody.
Seventeen people were killed last week as organized crime struck back. Last Monday night and Tuesday morning, heavily armed men killed three of Capella's senior police officers, shooting one at his home along with his wife and two daughters. Two days later, schoolchildren ran for their lives as police and soldiers battled with drug cartel members in a normally quiet neighborhood. Police found six executed kidnap victims inside the suspects' house. A federal agent and a gunman died in the shootout.
Capella, a chubby, soft-spoken 36-year-old with no police training, is at the center of the storm. He moves around the city in a six-car convoy with 20 bodyguards. He can't even stop at a taco stand without scaring off customers who fear gunmen will drive up and blast away.
Originally a corporate lawyer, Capella gained prominence as an outspoken advocate for crime victims. He has long assumed that killers would one day come for him.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Being an honest law-enforcement official in Mexico requires mucho guts these days.
Remember, McCain was/is(?) for Z amnesty. Think we otta allow these criminals into all of our major cities?
If McCain/Spector/Kennedy get their way, this will become our way of life.
They should pass a gun control law in Mexico.....oh wait..
Man...I knew it was unsafe to be the police chief down there, but even the commish has to worry about getting whacked? That is completely messed up.
Coming to a town near you.
All this is taking place so close to San Diego that stray 7.62 and 223 rounds may land on US soil.
Fortunately we have a double fence in most of this territory to keep us safer, but residents of TJ are telling friend here not to come and visit.
We need the fence.
Mexico is sounding more and more like Colombia all the time.
He either has brass balls or is completely crazy.
They need to bring in Los Pepes.
silver or lead
If open-border leftists Clinton or Juan "CryptKeeper" McCain have anything to do with it...it's a done deal.
Mexico is sounding more and more like Colombia
Watching the local news here in San Diego, looks and sounds more like Bagdad two years ago.
10 to 1 this guy’s dead in a month.
I wish there was a real world way to take you up on that for $10K.
Or he’s already decided to take the plata instead of the plomo.
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