More officers killed in Cuidad Juarez

KGNS ^ | Nov 20, 2009 | Ray Gomez

[SwinneySwitch]

Five police officers were killed yesterday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in a two separate incidents.

In the first attack, two officers were killed while on patrol.

Witnesses say gunmen killed one officer in his vehicle and the other as he tried to escape.

In the second attack, four police officers were shot at while filling up their vehicles at a gas station.

Two died on the scene, another died at a local hospital, and the fourth officer is being treated for his injuries.

The total number of police officers killed to 47 this year, making it one of the most violent areas in Mexico.

[A_Former_Democrat]

he total number of police officers killed to 47 this year

I wonder if this nice little stat will ever get mentioned on the SRM?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP. It’s amazing you could even pay people enough money to be a cop in Juarez. They’ve become like redshirts on Star Trek.

[Clintonfatigued]

That is so true. The city is a virtual war zone. I’m glad I don’t live in El Paso, across the river.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I remember going through El Paso en route from Nashville to San Diego back in ‘92. We stayed in a downtown highrise. It was weird there, like a timewarp from the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. They filmed the Steve McQueen/Ali McGraw film “The Getaway” in downtown EP just 20 years earlier and nothing looked any different (though the population had doubled since). Everything seemed dead and empty. The following morning my father had the brilliant suggestion we take our car and drive across the border into Juarez. I had a simple response to that even then, “Hell, no !” We visited a bordertown at the more sedate Agua Prieta, Sonora (across from Douglas, Arizona) (and later on when we got to San Diego at Tijuana), but I’m not so sure how safe it is to even visit some of the smaller border towns. You feel badly for the little kids that swarm you selling chiclets.