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2010-06-08 Caribbean-Latin America

Breaking News: Mexican Teen Shot by US Border patrol

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Posted by badanov 2010-06-08 01:11|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 You may want to look at the El Paso Times in the morning for a fuller story.

The Times says:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and apparently killed a man who died on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande during a confrontation Monday evening in the Downtown area.

U.S. authorities would not confirm if someone died, but Mexican news media reported a young man was dead...

"It started as an assault on a Border Patrol agent," said Special Agent Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman for the FBI in El Paso. The FBI is the lead agency in the case because it investigates assaults on federal agents.

About 6:45 p.m., a Border Patrol agent was attacked before he fired his weapon, Simmons said.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-06-08 04:03|| 2010-06-08 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "It started as an assault on a Border Patrol agent,"

Then he deserved to be shot. Interesting how the Mexican press managed to miss that key bit of information.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-08 07:17|| 2010-06-08 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, to be fair, the perp probably wasn't talking much by the time they got around to interviewing him.

Posted by AzCat 2010-06-08 07:41|| 2010-06-08 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 typically, it's a shower of rocks, bottles, and other projectiles to deter and distract the BP agents (who usually work alone) while others sneak past the fence. The little f*ck got what he deserved if that's the case as there's been many instances where agents received head wounds or other major injuries in the assaults

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-08 07:42|| 2010-06-08 07:42|| Front Page Top

#5 A case of hot pursuit by lead?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-08 08:58|| 2010-06-08 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Either way, you attack a border guard in any coutnry you get what you deserve.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-06-08 09:22|| 2010-06-08 09:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Either way, you attack a border guard in any coutnry you get what you deserve.

Darth, where have you been living for the last 20 years?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-06-08 10:28|| 2010-06-08 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Whitehouse: "He acted stupidly" in 3, 2, 1

Posted by Hellfish 2010-06-08 12:17|| 2010-06-08 12:17|| Front Page Top

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