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In El Paso, Texas, two Border Patrol agents who shot a fleeing drug courier in the buttocks were found guilty March 9 of assault, weapons crimes, tampering with evidence, and deprivation of civil rights. Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean face at least 10 years in federal prison for shooting Osvaldo Andrade Davila, a Mexican citizen, as he fled back across the border when they interrupted his effort to carry a package of drugs into the US. Ramos and Compean also conspired to cover up the shooting by removing spent shell casings from the scene. The pair turned down a plea bargain for 18-month sentences. They have been suspended with pay since the February 2005 incident, and Border Patrol officials said they will now consider firing them.
They shot him in the butt. Hardly a life threatening injury. Funny yes, life threatening no.
As I understand it "policing your brass" that is cleaning up the spent shell casings is normal practice, hardly covering anything up.
Weren't they doing their jobs in stopping the guy? Aren't they supposed to stop people like this? This wasn't a simple illegal trying to cross for a better life. They didn't shoot a kid. They shot a drug runner.
In El Paso, Texas, two Border Patrol agents who shot a fleeing drug courier in the buttocks were found guilty March 9 of assault, weapons crimes, tampering with evidence, and deprivation of civil rights. Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean face at least 10 years in federal prison for shooting Osvaldo Andrade Davila, a Mexican citizen, as he fled back across the border when they interrupted his effort to carry a package of drugs into the US. Ramos and Compean also conspired to cover up the shooting by removing spent shell casings from the scene. The pair turned down a plea bargain for 18-month sentences. They have been suspended with pay since the February 2005 incident, and Border Patrol officials said they will now consider firing them.
They shot him in the butt. Hardly a life threatening injury. Funny yes, life threatening no.
As I understand it "policing your brass" that is cleaning up the spent shell casings is normal practice, hardly covering anything up.
Weren't they doing their jobs in stopping the guy? Aren't they supposed to stop people like this? This wasn't a simple illegal trying to cross for a better life. They didn't shoot a kid. They shot a drug runner.
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Me and a fellow agent (while off-duty mind you) were sitting in the desert, shootin' the shit, knocking back some long-necks and blowin' the hell out of bottles, rocks, and clumps of grass that we believed were shaped in the form of the turban used by Osama bin Laden when a vicious and probably rabid deer popped up and lunged for us. Figuring no one was watching and knowing that deer were out of season we fired above him just to scare him off. We ackowledge that in our heavily intoxicated state we might have fired a bit low and hit his ass but at the time we weren't sure. Well... some time later someone told us that we had shot a drug smuggler by mistake and that we were "in for it."
Figuring we'd get a medal we tried to own up to the fact and claim it a victory for the anti-terror campaign. But they say he's suing and we're in a world of legal hurt. Well come to think of it we hadn't really shot anything but a deer, though you couldn't really prove what we'd shot since the weapons in question were lost in the desert as we dropped them while protecting our cigarettes and now there is no way to find the firearms or trace the slugs pulled out of the ass of said drug smuggler.
But like we've said, we were drunk and not really sure what we shot but we're fairly certain it had antlers.
I could go for some jerky. Yup.
(Crazy? Possibly. But losing your job through incompetence is better than going to prison.)