B.S.!
I suppose you are from the "must prove the perp didn't have a gun" crowd, even though he fled to Mexico which makes such an act impossible.
And they didn't cover a darn thing up. As such, all of those bogus charges were thrown out by the appeals court.
As to not doing their job; I would say anyone who tries to intercept an obvious illegal alien [and one whose appearance reeked of drug dealer, whether established or not] is performing their job with commitment. The earlier poster seems to have forgotten that when Ramos came on the scene, he was not aware of what transpired but only heard what he presumed was an exchange of gunfire.
As to not being heroes; I would not question a person's patriotism for saying that, but I would question their definition of hero. Anyone who straps on a gun in defense of a border that his own gov’t will not defend and whose fellow border guards had already been prosecuted for shooting their guns in defense of, is a cut above the rest of us. All law enforcement officers and fire and medical personnel are heroes to me until they demonstrate otherwise.
See ya, CCG
Our jury system is stacked in favor of the defendant. Yet their defense lawyers couldn’t get one person to hold a reasonable doubt to their innocence. Your hitching your wagon to a dead horse. Still, two years is way too long to serve for what they did. OTH - I really don’t want either of them carrying guns and badges.