CBP Confirms Border Patrol Agent Was Shot At Over 20 Times While Patrolling the Rio Grande

townhall.com ^ | 8/9/2021 | Julio Rosas

[rktman]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Friday a Border Patrol agent who was patrolling near the Rio Grande in the El Paso Sector fired upon from two individuals on the Mexican side of the border. The agent took cover and was not hit.

In a statement, CBP said around 20 rounds from a rifle were used to shoot at the agent:

"On August 6, 2021, at approximately 3 AM, a BPA assigned to an area east of the Jonathan Rogers Water Treatment Plant reported hearing gunshots near his location and immediately drove to cover behind an obstruction. Camera operators confirmed the presence of two subjects with what appeared to be a rifle shooting north from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River. Approximately 20 rounds were fired towards the agent from approximately 150 yards away. Fortunately, none of the rounds struck the agent. The two subjects were observed entering a sedan on the Mexican side and fleeing the scene. Mexican law enforcement authorities were immediately notified and officers were dispatched to the area."

The FBI will be taking over the investigation into the shooting.

[rktman]

Geez. Surprised the fbi can tear themselves away from searching out 1/6 terrorists for something as minor as a few shots fired at a CBP officer. No doubt the 'mbi/federales' will be of great assistance.

[pas]

The FBI will be taking over the investigation into the shooting. Their conclusion will be white supremist Trump supporters.

[lgjhn23]

“...The FBI will be taking over the investigation into the shooting...”

Expect NOTHING from them as they more likely orchestrated it to start with.
It has that same putrid “smell” as Las Vegas.

[rightwingcrazy]

If January 6 in DC is considered an insurrection, then what is this considered?

[DesertRhino]

“The FBI will be taking over the investigation into the shooting.”

So it’ll be buried like Fast and Furious? Hillary’s emails? Hunter’s laptop? The 2016 coup attempt? 2021 Election fraud? Widespread DC child sex trafficking? Epstein island and it’s who’s who of the elites getting videotaped by a foreign intel agency having sex with minors? Biden family bribery scandals in Ukraine and China? Zuckerberg bribery of election officials, Fauci’s illegal gain of function research and misappropriation of funds, etc etc etc...

The FBI is “on the case”. LOL

[gundog]

Diversion?

[rellimpank]

—well—on the positive side, the perps must be lousy shots—

[VideoDoctor]

If there's gunfire something serious is occurring such as a large DRUG shipment being brought across the border.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We need Marine recon on the border with no ROEs.

[South Dakota]

We need Marine recon on the border with no ROEs.

Add in a A10 for support

[BlueLancer]

Add in a A10 for support

Personally, I'm rather fond of ol' Puff ...

[ByteMercenary]

I wonder if T.A.N.G. has a ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ unit still in flying condition ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKOrpyO0z48

Make the border a No-Go zone ...

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Not sure why this is even news. Incoming from the Mex side goes on all the time. There was even a guy with with what we think was a .50 cal Barrett potshotting across the Rio Grande. Fortunately he was a really lousy shot. FBI is gonna investigate that? LoLoLoLoL.

 

 

[rktman]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

[Mastador1]

In a statement, CBP said around 20 rounds from a rifle were used to shoot at the agent:

Did CBP really say something that stupid or was it a stupid/ignorant/lazy 'journalist' who wrote that rather than a factual '20 rounds were fired from a rifle or rifles at the agent'. America is being stupidized to greater extents every year by our so called educational institutions. And this of course is one of the socialists greatest tools in controlling the serfs.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeppers!

[yoe]

Here is what America should fear the most....crime on top of crime...

"Friday's shooting comes almost a month after cartels in Juarez, Mexico, the border town south of El Paso, put up banners facing the United States warning U.S. law enforcement that "bullets also can cross the river and the [border] wall..."