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Posted on 09/28/2011 7:02:33 PM PDT by shield
Team fired 300 rounds in border shooting
WESLACO — Answering a smattering of gunshots with a 300-round barrage should show drug runners - their inflatable rafts full of illegal contraband - that Texas law enforcement officers aren't messing around, authorities said.
"You shoot a police officer, you're going to be shot back at," said Department of Public Safety DirectorSteve McCraw, dismissing on Friday any notion that the U.S. response to an early morning shootout Thursday with Mexican drug runners on the Rio Grande was over the top.
An initial DPS news release said the U.S. officials came under "heavy gun fire."
At a news conference, McCraw said the drug runners first threw rocks at U.S. law enforcement officers, followed by four to six gunshots.
He said a single shot against a U.S. law enforcement officer is "one too many."
"We are going to use overwhelming force. We're going to use tactics ... You shoot a law enforcement officer, you're going to get return fire," he said.
At least three alleged Gulf Cartel operatives were wounded in the Thursday morning shootout and McCraw said it was possible one or more of the drug runners died. He said Mexico was investigating on its end, with officials on the U.S. side considering the incident "an attempted capital murder of both Texas police officers and Border Patrol agents."
McCraw, leading a news conference attended by dozens of high-level state and federal law enforcement officials, praised the officers' response. He said Texas has a "zero tolerance" policy regarding attacks against U.S. law enforcement.
Gun shots followed rocks
The bad guys fired first, McCraw said, recounting an incident that began at 6:18 a.m., when three Texas Parks and Wildlife boats and one Border Patrol boat approached a red Dodge Durango waiting on U.S. riverbanks near Mission.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Texas Rangers, state game wardens and U.S. Border Patrol agents, operating a unified "Ranger Reconnaissance" mission, fired back big time, spraying some 300 rounds.
"They encountered force, and we will appropriately respond to that force, and we will go home at the end of the day, and we will protect ourselves, and we will protect our citizens," TPW Col. Peter Flores said. "That's not negotiable."
The is the actions of Governor Perry's Texas Ranger Interdiction Teams.
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Sounds like the drug mules declared open season on themselves.
Because I ran out of ammo.
Don’t shoot at Texas Rangers unless you plan on meeting your maker really soon! They are just lucky Chuck Norris didn’t get ahold of them.....
“Because I didn’t have 301 rounds,” yup.
If I was on a Border Patrol boat (usually small, center console boats) and the opposition started shooting I would be putting quite a few rounds down range.
I will not call this excessive force. If one initiates opening fire on a peace officer, that’s “suicide by cop”.
Immigration and the Border Patrol. They have their rules of engagement throttled back so they can’t defend themselves or even deport.
The Rangers and Wildlife are under no such constraints. ICE/CBP are grateful for the help. The Ranger Interdiction Team can defend themselves and Texas. They just shot three of them about a month ago.
Gov. Perry says what he means - and means what he says.
Thank G-d for him!
Sounds like it and that was why they had to have a presser for the libtard goons. Notice the hateful headline?
It is ironic, that worldwide, the press and the sniveling class, call for “proportional response” to attacks against Israel and her people? They are doing the same when our troops are attacked also. USA and Israel are playing “suicide” by political correctness. Unless they cease, and begin answering fire, with a blow torch, we could end up losing these wars we now face. We will surely lose one in the future, if we don’t grow up as a people.
The cops killed some nutcase in a town near here last Saturday. Near a highschool with a kid’s game going on. A video with the shooting going on in the distance is on youtube and the amount of fire-power they had is incredible. Glad they got the bad guy.
OTOH - it also reinforces my thinking that an automatic weapon should not be so hard/expensive to own with regards to our 2nd Amendment rights.
It has little to do with PC...it has everything to do with taking our good Americans...ever which way.
Gee, would I seem less than impressed if I asked how many hits they scored?
He said a single shot against a U.S. law enforcement officer is "one too many."
"We are going to use overwhelming force. We're going to use tactics ... You shoot a law enforcement officer, you're going to get return fire," he said.
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Feel free to head on over to Mexico and ask them how many shots hit.
That's interesting. I work for the Border Patrol and I have never seen any such change to our ROE. The article even states that the Border Patrol was involved in the shooting.
If it were up to me they would have RPG’;s to fire at these smugglers.
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