This is bad, and so was Brian Terry’s death, but something is bothering me:
Would ANY of this have become news if it hadn’t involved the death of federal cops...?
In fact the killings and kidnappings of civvies have been going on for quite some time.
ATF whistle-blowers came forward when Terry was killed —would they have done it if, say, a church packed full of people were burned to the ground...?
Yes, of course the notion is totally ridiculous, I know.
Tuesday’s incident is the second time in less than a year that a law enforcement officer suffered gunshot wounds on duty in Hidalgo County, Texas — a metropolitan area of about 800,000 residents where human smuggling and drug trafficking are commonplace.
Members of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel are suspected of shooting one of Trevino’s deputies in November, prompting the sheriff to declare the incident the first case in the county of so-called “spillover violence” from Mexico’s drug wars.