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Border Agents Forced to Face Down Bullets With Bean Bags, Critics Say
FoxNews ^ | 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 agency’s “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
1 posted on 03/04/2011 3:33:56 PM PST by Doogle
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To: Doogle

What an absolute joke we have become,


2 posted on 03/04/2011 3:36:07 PM PST by Mears
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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))
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To: Doogle

We’ve all heard that politics ain’t bean bag.

Who knew that border security is?


4 posted on 03/04/2011 3:38:02 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: pissant

...it’s Friday, it’s best to release news that is going to hurt on Friday. They hope no one notices.


5 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))
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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


6 posted on 03/04/2011 3:38:18 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Doogle

Yes you did!!!!LOL!!! ;)


7 posted on 03/04/2011 3:39:26 PM PST by ColdOne (AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
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To: ColdOne

it happens..*smiles*


8 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))
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To: Gaffer

WDU-4A in my time


9 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))
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To: Doogle

*smiles* :) did you read the write up for the his unit he was in this BORTAC?


10 posted on 03/04/2011 3:47:01 PM PST by ColdOne (AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
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To: rogue yam

...the head bean bag should resign


11 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))
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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.


12 posted on 03/04/2011 3:49:08 PM PST by TruthConquers ( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: Doogle

Murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry Given “bean bag rounds” to Shoot At Armed Illegal Aliens


13 posted on 03/04/2011 3:50:06 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: ColdOne
I could only get so far without cutting my monitor into one inch squares........from now on it's Bean Bag Napolitano
14 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))
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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?


15 posted on 03/04/2011 3:51:31 PM PST by Oldexpat
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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.)


16 posted on 03/04/2011 3:51:31 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Doogle

There are no words strong enough to describe how really insane this is.


17 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.)
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To: Doogle

So the BP orders its agents to face down the ATF armed gangs with bean bags?

Such a deal!


18 posted on 03/04/2011 3:53:11 PM PST by umgud
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To: Gaffer

I got to load them, for a while....then the Geneva Convention stepped in...(too inhumane)


19 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))
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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.


20 posted on 03/04/2011 4:04:09 PM PST by Lady Jag (Keep the 'ICk" in Democratic)
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