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To: chance33_98
The simple fact that they were in plain (gangbanger) clothes and not wearinr Raid Vests or Jackets is ample to make this a bad shoot. The girl had no way to know if they were cops or hijackers.
5 posted on 02/12/2003 9:49:33 AM PST by and the horse you rode in on (Nuke 'em till they GLOW and shoot 'em in the dark.)
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To: and the horse you rode in on
The simple fact that they were in plain (gangbanger) clothes and not wearinr Raid Vests or Jackets is ample to make this a bad shoot.

According the this article, filed by local TV and NOT the police. It plainly Refutes your above statement above. Again this is not from the Police but from a TV report.

http://www.clickonsa.com/ant/news/stories/news-196991920030211-090239.html

SAN ANTONIO -- A 14-year-old girl who was shot by federal drug agents remained on life support Tuesday at Wilford Hall Medical Center.

Ashley Villarreal (pictured, left) suffered a gunshot wound to the head after Drug Enforcement Administration officers fired four rounds toward a car the teenager was driving, officials said.

The shooting occurred late Sunday night during surveillance of the girl's home in the 800 block of San Joaquin.

Officials said plain-clothed DEA officers were trying to apprehend the girl's father when the teenager and another man, described as a caretaker for the girl's grandmother, got into a car and started to drive away.

The federal agents said when they tried to stop the pair, the girl, who was driving, drove the car toward the agents. Officials said that's when the agents opened fire.

"It looked like a gang (shootout)," said Kayla Hernandez, a neighbor who watched the incident from her home. "Those narcs and the DEA didn't put on their jackets until after the cops got here."

But Adriana Martinez, a neighbor, said the agents were well identified.

"When I checked outside ... they already had the jackets on," Martinez said.
Family and friends said that Villarreal got into the vehicle to park it when she apparently panicked and was unaware it was DEA agents who were trying to stop her.

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FYI...

LowOiL

239 posted on 02/12/2003 2:04:11 PM PST by LowOiL ("And will you profane Me among My peopleā€¦keeping people alive who should not live"EZEK13:19)
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