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To: CharlesWayneCT
Essentially, the bullet wound does not prove he was running away. That's all the report says. It is consistent with a person being hit while turning to one side. It's also consistent with a person running to one side, or running from side to side (for example, zig-zagging to avoid being hit by a crazy BP agent shooting at you when you tried to surrender but they tried to beat you up).

Your "example" to be consistent would require that the bullet fragment and wound were caused by the crazy BP agent or agents' bullet fragment would it not?

452 posted on 02/07/2007 11:30:50 AM PST by afnamvet (It is what it is.)
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To: afnamvet

Yes. That is something I pointed out last week. A recent claim by the defense is that Ramos never hit the guy at all. They make a big deal out of the "chain of evidence" for the bullet fragment, suggesting that the wound was inflicted by the drug kingpin.

But we are also told that the wound shows the guy was running away from the agent while pointing a gun at him, and therefore supports the story that Ramos felt threatened.

Those are contradictory arguments. If the bullet isn't Ramos's bullet, it's trajectory CAN'T prove Ramos was threatened.

Further, the path of the bullet is rather inconsistent with a drug kingpin shooting his employee to "teach him a lesson". Unless the employee runs away from the kingpin, and then turns toward him pretending to shoot at him while the kingpin shoots at him.

Consistancy is not a strong point for the defense. I can't blame them, since the two agents told several contradictory stories themselves.


456 posted on 02/07/2007 11:55:39 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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