Posted on 06/09/2010 7:44:18 PM PDT by Amerisrael
Daily Mail UK media bias and distortion.
As U.S. Border Patrol agents detained an illegal alien on the Texas side of the southern border with Mexico, they were pelted with rocks by other would-be illegal aliens who ran back across the border when the border patrol agents arrived.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent called out for the rock throwing assailants to stop.
They didn't.
As most should be aware of, rocks can seriously injure and kill.
In self-defense a border patrol agent then fired his weapon, a Mexican teenager, a smuggler of illegal aliens was killed.
For media comparison here are two different articles on the same incident:
First, from Fox News
Second, from the Daily Mail UK
Notice these lines in the Daily Mail article:
"The boy's sister, Rosario, said her brother was playing with serveral friends and did not plan to cross the border.
'They say that they started firing from over there and suddenly hit him in the head,' she said."
"The boy's mother said he had gone to eat with his brother, who handles luggage at a border customs office. While there he met up with a group of friends and they decided to hang out by the river, she said.
'That was his mistake, to have gone to the river,' she told a Mexican television reporter.'That's why they killed him."
According to that account in the Daily Mail article, the U.S. Border Patrol showed up and just started shooting.
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Rocks are the preferred weapon of paleostinian “youts,” and therefore do not count as weapons justifying self-defense.
Ditto for rockets, mortars, AK-47 fire, etc...
Good shot, BPA.
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