Posted on 10/25/2012 6:45:58 PM PDT by smokingfrog
NEAR LA JOYA — A Texas Department of Public Safety sharpshooter opened fire on an evading vehicle loaded with suspected illegal immigrants, leaving at least two people dead.
A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden attempted to pull over a vehicle suspected of smuggling immigrants Thursday afternoon along Farm-to-Market Road 2221.
A DPS helicopter was called in to assist in the pursuit and a sharpshooter opened fire on the evading vehicle — a policy permitted by the agency.
Once the smuggler's vehicle stopped along FM 2221 near Mile 7 Road, troopers found three people shot inside, DPS spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said in a statement.
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And how is this not murder?
Notice to humans thinking of becoming an illegal immigrant in the U. S.
U. S. Citizens are a patient people. Enough is enough.
Stay in your on country.
Wait for the details before judgement please.
My guess is that there is a lot more to this story. Don’t believe that they would fire on a vehicle from an aircraft if shots had not been fired at officers first.
I am not a bootlicker and lately have not been siding with the police and their militarist tendancies lately but this seems pretty far fetched for the failing to stop.
We will see.
It wouldn’t happen at all if we were protecting the border enough to prevent their entry in the first place.
Sounds like good shooting to me!
Illegals are just that, NOT LEGAL in the US.
Stealing services and benefits paid for by US citizens.
Bringing illegal contraband into a sovereign nation.
Kill them at the border, instead of waiting until they invade your home.
That is the responsibility of the federal government.
Not deciding how you will receive health care.
Are you aware of why they were being pursued? No.
So why don’t you take a deep breath and wait to explode tomorrow, when we know the full story.
As a law abiding citizen; I’m not opposed to the helicopter dispatching heat-seeking missles and killing EVERYONE in the vehicle. When the cops put on the flashing lights and siren - that means PULL OVER. It does not give anyone license to endanger everyone else on the road.
If you want to endanger innocent American’s, who are peacefully commuting - I have no problem at all seeing you killed. That goes for teenagers out for a joy-ride, illegals, drunks, car thieves and everyone else.
It’s not like we have a shortage of humans - and we can certainly do with a lot fewer of the criminal element.
The way you negate Posse Comitatus is to turn civilian police into de facto US military.
[And how is this not murder?]
The rationale is that a fleeing vehicle is a danger to other motorists.
We don’t have enough information at this time. Seems highly unusual they would open fire unless the smugglers attacked the game warden or the DPS thought there was a high probability that the fleeing vehicle was going to kill or seriously injure someone.
Frankly, I’m verging on the position that if we have to loose a few Mexican nationals to stop our men, women, and children from having to die at their hands, it might be an equitable trade-off.
Well, we know of at least three people who won’t be driving drunk tonight.
U. S. Citizens in that area will have a little better chance of getting home alive.
You’ll come down with a terminal illness within 24 months.
If they were getting shot at?
I personally don’t consider military patrolling the border to be a violation of Posse Comitatus. I fail to see how its taking on police duties when the feds have a mandate to protect the borders anyway.
The Coasties patrol the Detroit river and nobody considers it to be a violation. In fact much of what they do is the same as police do on land.
I don't know the facts so I will withhold judgment, but I will say that this phrase would not have been written when I was a child.
Posse comitatus comatose us.
We can shoot invaders.
Perhaps the Texas authorities believed the driver was reckless and would hit a family of 4 crossing an intersection.. We don’t really know, do we? Reserve judgment. I give Texas the benefit of the doubt. They look after their LEGAL CITIZENS unlike most states and our Feds which always give the illegals the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah yeah.. ouch, gotcha, whatever. I meant to say, “Texas is the most liberal State in the Union.” Better?
Considering how many good people around my immediate vicinity have died at the hands of illegals (thanks to the scumbag open-border, pro-amnesty politicians, who should all be tied to a stake and set on fire), I’ll be damned if I find any fault with this story.
Pleased as punch to find it happened here in Texas! Maybe it will serve as a warning, and influence the illegals to steer clear of the Lone Star State and go instead up to some faggy, Obama-voting blue-state to do their killings. Have them rob and rape and run-down the families of the lib politicians that are so happy to empower all these illegals.
Denial doesn’t fix squat.
“You’ll come down with a terminal illness within 24 months.”
Nice comment there steve86!
About what I would expect from a liberal “retard”!
No facts, just hateful spite.
As my grandmother said, your too stupid to pour piss from a boot with up stamped on the heel!
I think I see a pattern there.
Nothing to see here. Just another day of shooting coyotes from a helicopter. Move along.
Because it's not. The Coast Guard is not covered.
Another way the get around it is to recruit Aussies and New Zealanders.
Hang on... they shoot from helicopters now?
I am sure they were someones son....
“I’m not going to get into Anwar al-Alwaki’s son … I would suggest that you have a far more responsible father if they’re truly concerned about the well being of your children. I don’t think becoming an al-Qaeda jihadist terrorist is the best way to go about doing your business.”
It’s their daddy’s fault according to the White House...
hardly almost sorta kinda kidding
I would consider the military patrolling the border as part of its constitutional duty to protect the US. And the military did in fact patrol the border many times during the last centuries and did it exceptionally well.
I don’t mind this sort of action being taken against illegals, esp. when they endanger innocents.
The disconcerting trend is that police attacks of this nature will escalate further against US citizens. The police state no longer regards the populace as citizens, but as potential enemy combatants.
You are a clear disappointment. Does your mother know you are up late tonight?
So you would kill people for failing to stop? You would ignore the 6th Amendment, completely?
You'd be just fine with say, a police car chasing someone down (say because of expired plates), who refuses to stop, then shoot them? ... wow.
I’m just stunned
I would expect this from nazi Germany or soviet Russia... but the US??
so much for being the last refuge on earth to run to for help against evil and tyranny
just stunned
Posse comitatus dos not apply to the USMC and it it possoble it also does not apply to the USAF, though I’m unsure.
It's not Art 4, Sec 4 is clear that the federal government has a responsibility to protect the States from invasion.
The Coasties patrol the Detroit river and nobody considers it to be a violation. In fact much of what they do is the same as police do on land.
This is however, a DPS helicopter... which, IIRC, is a LEO-agency, not military. (Which only illustrates the militarization of the police.)
Col. Kilgore does! “This is Big Duke 6, clear the area, I’m comin’ in myself....don’t these savages ever give up?”
I’d rather have the actual military on the border than an increasingly militarized police force.
My mom’s uncle was flying border patrol out of El Paso Tx in the 1930s.
I forgot to add he was lifetime Coast Guard.
Good shooting.
Typical liberal kneejerk reaction.
Stay there - don’t move here.
Depending upon the details, once I knew they weren’t talking about helicopter-mounted weapons I wasn’t much concerned.
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