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One may not engage in hypotheticals without end; they must, ultimately, be anchored in the facts of the case. If you report that the perp has a gun, there'd better be a gun--or something that can reasonably be construed to be a gun--at hand.

Well I can play that game as well.

Since the perp continued to run after the weapons discharge the agents had no reason to believe they had hit the subject and thus no reason to believe that picking up their brass would be destroying a “potential” crime seen.

No gun was recovered because the subject escaped back to Mexico and that’s a fact not in dispute.

As for the shot in the ass, armed encounters are never as simple as they appear on TV. The guy could have been spinning while reaching or pointing.

These agents have collectively apprehended thousands of illegal aliens and unknown numbers of drug smugglers over their careers, most of who ran. They never were involved in any other shooting to effect arrests.

Since there is no reports that the agents have a record of civil rights abuse the rouge cop thing won’t fly and somehow I don’t think the race card will play either given their last names.

So why on this one day would they decide risk everything and shoot a fleeing alien in the back? For fun? I don’t think so.

Any firearms discharge by a law enforcement officer has to be investigated completely. That is the law of the land, and it's a good one. These guys interfered with that investigation.

So why on this one day would they decide risk everything and shoot a fleeing alien in the back? For fun? I don’t think so.

Law enforcement agencies LIKE their guys who have been there and done that. Something like this, if the basis was on the up-and-up, would be career-enhancing for both of them if it got into their records.

So why did they go to such lengths to conceal it and keep it out of their records? Good does not need to hide; evil does.