To: zek157
Had he not been running back to the boarder he wouldn't have been shot. Using deadly force to stop him from getting back is A OK imhoThe use of deadly force is only legal when it is to prevent the commission of a capital crime such as murder or rape.
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
"The use of deadly force is only legal when it is to prevent the commission of a capital crime such as murder or rape."
Or, to protect one's life. Violence against BP agents has escalated in recent years. It's easy to point fingers from the air conditioned comfort of your home. Unless you were there, you don't really know what happened.
What I know is that the government put a extraordinary amount of money and effort behind this prosecution. My guess also is that the U.S. Attorney's Office did everything in its power to select a jury like the one that acquitted O.J. Simpson.
Bush and Gonzales were sending a message to Border Patrol agents - don't mess with illegals who are messing with our borders. Compare this potential 20 year sentence to five years that was recently given to a BP agent who was convicted of being paid to transport illegals across the border over a period of months in a BP vehicle.
63 posted on
09/08/2006 12:03:30 PM PDT by
BW2221
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Police shoot fleeing suspects all of the time. I don't necessarily agree with it but it happens.
65 posted on
09/08/2006 12:12:48 PM PDT by
streetpreacher
(What if you're wrong?)
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
The use of deadly force is only legal when it is to prevent the commission of a capital crime such as murder or rape. B.S. And if they'd have used deadly force, he'd be dead. He was shot in the @ss.
67 posted on
09/08/2006 12:18:45 PM PDT by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
The use of deadly force is only legal when it is to prevent the commission of a capital crime such as murder or rape.
I didn't know that. So police officers that are after a suspect cannot use deadly force if he/she starts to run away?
Seems the odds are stacked in the criminal's favor if all our BP and police have to tackle every criminal just to apprehend them. There's nothing to stop every one from trying to flee then, either.
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
"The use of deadly force is only legal when it is used to prevent the commision of s capital crime such as murder or rape"
You don't get around much in Texas, do you, Boy?
221 posted on
09/11/2006 11:18:40 AM PDT by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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