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Border Agents Forced to Face Down Bullets With Bean Bags, Critics Say
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| 03/03/11
| Diane Macedo
Posted on 03/04/2011 3:33:53 PM PST by Doogle
The U.S. Border Patrol is under fire for allegedly ordering its elite, SWAT-style units to use non-lethal bean bag ammunition before responding with deadly force even against suspects armed with high-powered semi-automatic and automatic weapons like AK-47s.
The controversy over the agencys bean bag policy began in the days following the Dec. 14 killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and has escalated recently as more information is uncovered in the investigation of the fatal shooting.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: borderpatrol; brianterry; gunwalker; immigration; nappy; obama; projectgunwalker; targetpractice; wakeupamerica
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incredible,absolutely insane
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:33:56 PM PST
by
Doogle
To: Doogle
What an absolute joke we have become,
2
posted on
03/04/2011 3:36:07 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Doogle; AuntB
Politicians are f*****g scum.
3
posted on
03/04/2011 3:36:13 PM PST
by
pissant
((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
To: Doogle
We’ve all heard that politics ain’t bean bag.
Who knew that border security is?
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:38:02 PM PST
by
rogue yam
To: pissant
...it’s Friday, it’s best to release news that is going to hurt on Friday. They hope no one notices.
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:38:05 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
They should be using APIT and fleschettes in my opinion. That is, of course, backed up by buckshot from 9 round semiauto Mossberg 935s
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:38:18 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Doogle
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:39:26 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
To: ColdOne
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:44:01 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Gaffer
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:46:02 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
*smiles* :) did you read the write up for the his unit he was in this BORTAC?
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:47:01 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
To: rogue yam
...the head bean bag should resign
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:47:45 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
I swear, I sometimes have these dark thoughts that the top rulers of this country really want the best of us to die, unable to defend ourselves.
Boarder patrol and the Armed forces with those evil rules for engagement.
barf, makes me sick.
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:49:08 PM PST
by
TruthConquers
( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: Doogle
Murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry Given bean bag rounds to Shoot At Armed Illegal Aliens
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:50:06 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: ColdOne
I could only get so far without cutting my monitor into one inch squares........from now on it's Bean Bag Napolitano
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:50:46 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
I think that if they spot invaders on our side of the border carrying guns they should shoot first and give warnings later. Why did they turn loose the other perps carrying guns?
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:51:31 PM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: Doogle
Nasty stuff! (There was a very short time when you could buy specialty shotgun ammo on the web loaded with the 1” kind.)
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:51:31 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Doogle
There are no words strong enough to describe how really insane this is.
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:52:35 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Doogle
So the BP orders its agents to face down the ATF armed gangs with bean bags?
Such a deal!
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:53:11 PM PST
by
umgud
To: Gaffer
I got to load them, for a while....then the Geneva Convention stepped in...(too inhumane)
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:56:12 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: trisham
This just one more farce in the game that no one of means lifts a finger in defense.
We are already down the tubes, folks. Learn to think like a drone.
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posted on
03/04/2011 4:04:09 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Keep the 'ICk" in Democratic)
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