Posted on 03/03/2011 8:59:11 AM PST by Qbert
The outrageous rumors were true.
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was forced to use beanbags against armed Mexican killers before he was shot dead in Arizona in December.
Agent Brian Terry was forced to defend himself and this country with beanbags.
The Arizona Daily Star reported:
Border Patrol agents shot beanbags at a group of suspected bandits before the men returned fire during a confrontation in a remote canyon, killing agent Brian Terry with a single gunshot, records show.
And an illegal immigrant wounded in the gunbattle who is now the only person in custody linked to the slaying contends he never fired a shot, according to FBI search warrant requests filed in the U.S. District Court in Tucson.
The documents provide the most detailed version yet of what happened in the deadly gunbattle Dec. 14 in Peck Canyon, northwest of Nogales.
The documents say the group of illegal border entrants refused commands to drop their weapons after agents confronted them at about 11:15 p.m. Two agents fired beanbags at the migrants, who responded with gunfire. Two agents returned fire, one with a long gun and one with a pistol, but Terry was mortally wounded in the gunfight.
Border Patrol officials declined to answer questions about protocol for use of force, citing the ongoing investigation.
But Terry’s brother, Kent Terry, said the other agents who were there that night told him that they were instructed to use the non-lethal beanbags first. It’s a policy that doesn’t make sense to Kent Terry.
“You go up against a bandit crew that is carrying AKs, and you walk out there with guns loaded with beanbags – I don’t get it,” Terry said in a phone interview from Michigan. “It’s like going to the Iraqi war with one knife. It boggles my mind. … These guys (Border Patrol agents) are professionals; they should be able to use their judgment call on their own.”
But, don’t worry. Barack Obama says the border is as safe today as it’s ever been.
OUTRAGEOUS!
and NO ONE will be fired.....
When shooting Mexicans, you shouldn’t use beanbags anyway. It’s racist.
Holder would have probably sued the agents had they used real bullets.
LOL! Post of the day!
All thanks to the damn Beanbag in the White House!
Now I know what Dt. Dew out the nose feels like.
Thanks
Lol
Progressive dream unfolding in front of our eyes...
How much you want to bet they wouldn’t be forced to use bean bags against the Tea Party?
Un-FN-believable. I damn feel sorry for the Terry family who had to put up with this GD idiot administration. Anyone here on FR would have blasted these mexican scumfks with their own firearms if the situation was different.
Bump.
Not mentioned in the article is ATF’s active and complicit role in the murder of the Agent.
Americans are just sitting ducks these days- Arizona, Mexico, Somalia coast, Germany...
All for the apparent “crime” of being American in the administration’s eyes.
Damn!
I live in a country governed by traitors? FUBO.
Crazy!
The Border Patrol Agents mistook the bandits guns for tortillas. They were preparing to request backup cheese and salsa.
Thank God they weren’t forced to lob greaseballs at ‘em.
Good God....
I'd make someone pay big if that was my kid.
The use of excessive force in the apprehension and destruction of the TEA party has been approved.
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