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Mexico City airport killings were work of police
Fox News Latino ^ | June 26, 2012

Posted on 06/26/2012 8:09:06 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

Two Federal Police officers under investigation for drug trafficking killed three fellow officers who were about to arrest them at Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport, the Public Safety Secretariat said.

The official version of the incident confirms eyewitness accounts and information provided by airport security officials, who said police officers or other uniformed individuals killed the three officers.

The shooting occurred around 8:50 a.m. Monday in the airport's Terminal 2, leaving two officers dead at the scene. The third officer died while being treated at a hospital.

Two Federal Police officers assigned to the airport opened fire when officers from another unit tried to arrest them, the secretariat said.

The two officers were being investigated for their alleged links "to the activities of a drug trafficking network," the secretariat said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartels; drugcartels; drugs; drugwar; mexico; mexicocity; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd

1 posted on 06/26/2012 8:09:12 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: SwinneySwitch
Two Federal Police officers assigned to the airport opened fire when officers from another unit tried to arrest them, the secretariat said.

Will they be disciplined for doing that? Does Mexico have a police union?

2 posted on 06/26/2012 8:34:23 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

sounds like New Orleans police.


3 posted on 06/26/2012 8:45:22 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: Joe Boucher
sounds like New Orleans police.

The market price for a cop is probably lower in Mexico, but it's the same basic phenomenon: drug-war-inflated profits allow violent criminals to corrupt law enforcement. Yet another of the many harms of our absurd War On Drugs.

4 posted on 06/26/2012 11:51:38 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Very much correct you are.
A cop in New Orleans isn’t getting rich and even a stupid can figure one isn’t getting wealthy in Mexico either less they are dirty.


5 posted on 06/26/2012 1:08:30 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Very much correct you are.
A cop in New Orleans isn’t getting rich and even a stupid can figure one isn’t getting wealthy in Mexico either less they are dirty.


6 posted on 06/26/2012 1:09:29 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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