Posted on 05/05/2011 5:54:33 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Life is returning to normal in Matamoros following a series of blockades and a shootout between armed men and federal troops.
Matamoros officials confirmed that it all started in front of the Tamaulipas State Police building off Avenida Marte R. Gomez around 7:20 a.m. Thursday.
The gun battle lasted until around 8:20 a.m. Thursday but resulted in a series of blockades on major streets throughout the city.
One of the blockades reportedly happened near the Mexican side of the Veterans International Bridge prompting Cameron County officials to temporarily close the southbound lanes of the bridge.
Matamoros officials told Action 4 News that the blockades were removed by 9:30 a.m. Thursday and that the city had returned to normal.
It's not clear if anyone was wounded or killed in the shootout.
As of late Thursday morning, neither the Mexican army nor the Mexican navy had information about the incident.
A spokesman with the Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office (PGJE) reported that the shootout took place between armed men and federal troops and did not involve state police.
Details were not immediately available but the spokesman reported that there was some property damage to state police buildings and vehicles as a result of the shootout.
One of the state buildings near where the shootout took place is the Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO), where the bodies of more than 100 victims in the San Fernando massacres were taken.
If that happened on the street outside my house, that would be called a 'Civil War'. Something similar happened back in the 1860s, here in the States.
So, what's the line-up, over-under, and the current news? Does our media not know how to make money off of a war on their front steps anymore?
/johnny
An American agent has died because of this Obama stupidity.
Now Mexican Nationals are at risk because of the stupidity of Obama and Holder...
Correction its 3 federal officers shot & 2 are dead. Guns from the gun runner fiasco were found to be the murder weapons . But rest assured nobody in Washington D.C. with DHS, DOJ ,1600 Pennsylvania Ave. will have to answer for anything, but the whistle blowers can kiss their careers good-bye.
Were any of the guns used in this shootout among those smuggled into Mexico by Eric Holder’s “Justice” Department?
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