What do they mean giving immunity to a confessed drug runner AGAINST our border patrol. I smell a drug money payoff and think an investigation should concentrate on following the money.
Excuse my naivete, but if the drug runner was running away and told to halt, but kept on running, isn't that reason enough to shoot him in the buttocks? They did not kill the guy--just stopped him. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
I also believe the druggie's kinsman that he never ran drugs without a gun.
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
vaudine
Giving immunity is exactly the same as offering a bribe to a witness. Granting immunity and plea bargaining in exchange for testimony should be a criminal offense.
Excuse my naivete, but if the drug runner was running away and told to halt, but kept on running, isn't that reason enough to shoot him in the buttocks? They did not kill the guy--just stopped him. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Where to begin? The didn't stop the drug runner, they shot the fleeing drug runner. The drug runner never fired on the agents. The agents emptied their guns at the drug runner though, then the agents never reported the incident until they discovered that their supervisors knew about it.
My questions are; Why was a single agent alone with the drug smuggler and out of sight of the other agent? Why did the agents partner wait until he heard gunshots before coming to his partners defense? Why did the agents come back and pocket the casings and clean up the crime sight before making their report?
Everything about this situation smells. My guess is that the cops and their bosses are corrupt. This is probably a disagreement on payoffs.
I find it hard to believe he wasn't armed either- there is too many possiblities of a load getting hijacked by other bad guys if the smuggler is defenseless. Most of the backpack smugglers are unarmed and nearly all of the smugglers that try to sneak loads through ports of entry are unarmed; but I think it is unusual for a smuggler with a big load coming through the boonies to be unarmed.
It has also become common for smugglers to fire shots in the direction of BP and others to get them to pull back and let them through, most of the time it works because many of the good guys are afraid to get into a shootout. The reason they fear a shootout is not the reason most of us would- it is due to the fear of this type of fallout.
All these folks that work on the border trying to secure our country work really hard and put up with a ton of political BS, it is a real shame. What they really need is full support from the American people and their own bosses up the food chain. We could hire better individuals and keep them if they felt they had backup when they need it.