Posted on 03/03/2011 8:59:11 AM PST by Qbert
The outrageous rumors were true.
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was forced to use beanbags against armed Mexican killers before he was shot dead in Arizona in December.
Agent Brian Terry was forced to defend himself and this country with beanbags.
The Arizona Daily Star reported:
Border Patrol agents shot beanbags at a group of suspected bandits before the men returned fire during a confrontation in a remote canyon, killing agent Brian Terry with a single gunshot, records show.
And an illegal immigrant wounded in the gunbattle who is now the only person in custody linked to the slaying contends he never fired a shot, according to FBI search warrant requests filed in the U.S. District Court in Tucson.
The documents provide the most detailed version yet of what happened in the deadly gunbattle Dec. 14 in Peck Canyon, northwest of Nogales.
The documents say the group of illegal border entrants refused commands to drop their weapons after agents confronted them at about 11:15 p.m. Two agents fired beanbags at the migrants, who responded with gunfire. Two agents returned fire, one with a long gun and one with a pistol, but Terry was mortally wounded in the gunfight.
Border Patrol officials declined to answer questions about protocol for use of force, citing the ongoing investigation.
But Terry’s brother, Kent Terry, said the other agents who were there that night told him that they were instructed to use the non-lethal beanbags first. It’s a policy that doesn’t make sense to Kent Terry.
“You go up against a bandit crew that is carrying AKs, and you walk out there with guns loaded with beanbags – I don’t get it,” Terry said in a phone interview from Michigan. “It’s like going to the Iraqi war with one knife. It boggles my mind. … These guys (Border Patrol agents) are professionals; they should be able to use their judgment call on their own.”
But, don’t worry. Barack Obama says the border is as safe today as it’s ever been.
Update: I messed up- Napalitano’s speech was from February. I’m sure she hasn’t changed her views, though.
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“When shooting Mexicans, you shouldn’t use beanbags anyway. It’s racist.”
Serious story but still funny.
That is correct. They should use wetbags.
Right you are DCB1. BATFE killed Agent Terry. I just wrote that a number of minutes ago in an email I sent. Boil away all the BS, and Agent Terry was killed by BATFE screwing around, and their scheme is blowing up in their faces as well. So damned sad Agent Terry had to die for a stupid scheme concocted by mentally impaired Leftist scum.
That's a good point. The agencies (not BP) didn't have to use bean bags against the Americans they murdered at Waco, Ruby Ridge, all the other places.
Janet Incompetano: “The system worked.”
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Folks will probably not believe this, but after the USS Cole was bombed off Yemen, the sailors who rushed topside with weapons were REFUSED ammo.
You probably won’t believe that the reason was because the Captain wished to AVOID AN ACCIDENT.
That sounds unbelievable, right?
It’s also true that the USMC guards on duty in front of the HQ in Beirut, Lebanon during the Reagan years also had NO AMMO in their rifels, and that Hezbollah knew that.
Or taco tasers.
We live in a country that is no longer serious about its own survival.
It’s clear to me that this ‘regime’ wants to destroy this country. The last one too.
We could have built a double fence, with electronic monitors, seismic detectors(for tunnels), cameras everywhere in less than 6 months.
Require employers, landlords, healthcare and any welfare programs to check a database[for legal status] to recieve any services in this country.
If they can’t find a place to live, a job, recieve health care or welfare.....they may just self deport.
Darrell Issa needs to investigate this! It’s time for Napolitano to go just as Les Aspin (Clinton’s SecDef) resigned in disgrace after he declined AC-130 gunships and armored vehicles to the troops in Somalia, resulting in the “Blackhawk Down” fiasco.
The only reason we have border violence is because we plan to. The abominable, insulting election of this traitorous administration has reaped exactly what should have been forseen. Until we stand up as a people and demand a change, none will take place. They will continue coming, and our President and the administration will approve it and encourage it. Since they aren’t FOR US, they must be AGAINST US. A terrorist IS as a terrorist DOES. OBAMA IS A TERRORIST, AND HE WANTS TO DESTROY YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY.
The only reason we have border violence is because we plan to. The abominable, insulting election of this traitorous administration has reaped exactly what should have been forseen. Until we stand up as a people and demand a change, none will take place. They will continue coming, and our President and the administration will approve it and encourage it. Since they aren’t FOR US, they must be AGAINST US. A terrorist IS as a terrorist DOES. OBAMA IS A TERRORIST, AND HE WANTS TO DESTROY YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY.
Why this racist moron still has a job is strange, Oh wait he work for mac daddy the lying racist himself.
WHY, all suddenly, is FREEP gutless to publish a comment to the effect that Obama tacitly approves, and even encourages the Mexican invasion of our borders by the cartels? A terrorist IS as a terrorist DOES. He sanctions terrorism with a dim-wit like big sis in the saddle and like everything else, can’t make a decision on anything. What’s so dangerous about calling a TRAITOR a TRAITOR?
WHY, all suddenly, is FREEP gutless to publish a comment to the effect that Obama tacitly approves, and even encourages the Mexican invasion of our borders by the cartels? A terrorist IS as a terrorist DOES. He sanctions terrorism with a dim-wit like big sis in the saddle and like everything else, can’t make a decision on anything. What’s so dangerous about calling a TRAITOR a TRAITOR?
If it were my child there would be NO conversation with that hag. ( How in the hell can this nation function with these idiotic children in charge?)
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