Posted on 08/27/2006 9:07:43 PM PDT by SandRat
YUMA, Ariz. -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man who was throwing rocks at officers from the Mexican side of the border late Saturday, officials said.
The incident began after agents spotted a suspicious vehicle near the Andrade Port of Entry west of the California-Arizona border, just north of the international border and alongside the Colorado River.
The driver fled and then tried to swim across a pond along the river in an effort to return to Mexico, the agency said in a press release.
But the man began to struggle to stay afloat and agents threw him a flotation device and began to try to rescue him. Several people on the other side of the border then began throwing rocks at the agents, and one officer was struck in the head.
The officer then shot at a man who was getting ready to throw another rock, the Border Patrol said. Mexican authorities took the man to a hospital, where he died.
Attacks on Border Patrol agents have become more common in recent years, and this year agents say they're seeing smugglers become even more violent as more federal resources make crossing into the U.S. ever more difficult.
Smugglers are throwing softball-sized rocks, hunks of concrete and whole bricks at agents, either out of frustration or to try to get authorities to back off.
Not Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean but I thought you guys might be interested since it's related to the Border Patrol:
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>Watch and see how this plays in the media. I repeat... huge mistake. This is exactly what they want.
Yeah, but these things always blow over when something else happens.
Thanks for the ping.
Thanks for the ping
I am with you on that 200%!!
Just how sheltered of a life do you live? Rocks kill lots of people every year, especially around Israel. Here in the USA, people are killed from rocks tossed of of overpasses, a woman was seriously injured last week from a rock dropped off an overpass.
Many are killed or maimed each year. In crazy Muslim countries, the death toll from rock tossing is very high. In fact, as mentioned, it's a weekly event. They don't have drive in theaters in Muslim countries, they have public rock tossing events, usually they begin with hand chopping, them foot chopping, and the main event is some woman accused of being a whore, buried up to her neck, a line of scrimmage (circle) around 25 feet in diameter drawn around her, and them she is pummeled to death with stones, the first one is cast by her father, husband, the next by the Imam, then the whole town gets into it. ZING! out pops an eye. POP! there goes her teeth. PING! there goes the top of her scalp on and on until she is dead.
To View such Islamic festivities, go to www.faithfreedm.org and read some stories sent in by women who have escaped the cult.
Maybe you should use google before making up your own statistics.
Jeez, lighten up dude.
You're welcome.
Thanks for the ping.
My point, as I have observed, in NI.
The "fronters" threw rocks, beer bottles and street bricks, while the real "trouble" was filling milk bottles with petrol and rag wicks for the "grand finale".
One must not take rocks lightly.
Good.
I used to go out chicken (grouse) hunting with a guy who killed more grouse with rocks than he did with his shot gun. He could toss a rock and nail them right in the head at 25 ft without fail. Rocks are deadly in the right hands.
if it was an IRS agent shooting a rock throwing homeowner everyone would be calling for the agent's life
Really? Next time a cop pulls you over, get out of your car and start throwing rocks at him. See what happens.
I was just palying. My honest thoughst are this: The Agent will catch hell for this, because the ABP has turned too PC
Yes, rocks can kill, but guns are far more effective.
I was poking fun at rocks vs. bullets and not dimenishing the fact that rocks can kill.
OK?
and there is no anger here on my part, just to be clear.
Prairie chicken?
I've heard similar stories.
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