[DainBramage]

IMO it is hard excusing shooting a fleeing suspect in the back. I dont however see any reason to give a drug runner a free pass to testify, especially when the Mexicans wont do the same for us.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Hey, don't let the FACT that he was shot in the back while fleeing (posing no imminent threat to the border agents) spoil a good immigration-bashing thread.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

A fleeing susupect ? If you disregard orders from law enforcement to stop, imo that should be enough reason to shoot.

[1rudeboy]

I dont however see any reason to give a drug runner a free pass to testify, especially when the Mexicans wont do the same for us.

Are you speaking of the Mexican government granting someone in the U.S. immunity so that he may testify in Mexico? How ever does one get access to that kind of information?

[TBP]

I dont however see any reason to give a drug runner a free pass to testify, especially when the Mexicans wont do the same for us.

And especially when the entire case rests on the word of this illegal alien drug smuggler.

There was a clear message sent to Border Patrol agents here: If you do your job, you can get in serious legal trouble. As long as we keep sending that message, we could have 12 million Border Patrol agents and it wouldn't do any good.

[wtc911]

It is lawful, even in NYS, for even a citizen to shoot a fleeing felon.

[streetpreacher]

What has ever become of the case of Dog the Bounty Hunter? Is there anything we won't do to appease the Mexican government?

[montag813]

IMO it is hard excusing shooting a fleeing suspect in the back.

They shot him in the ASS, actually. And officers may indeed shoot at fleeing suspects. This one ran from nearly 800 pounds of marijuana in his truck.