[TChris]

I think this is a very well-reasoned and informative article. It's nice to read material from cooler heads once in a while.

[thinkthenpost]

This is the first I have read about the agents knowing they had stuck Davila, leaving him lying wounded, and them he some how limping to an awaiting vehicle. I wonder when did he cross the river back into Mexico. This is very difficult to believe.
I am a little overwhelmed by the differing version of events and have basically decided his he said/he said, but there are two he's versus one. Frankly, I really do not buy much of what AUSA or USA Sutton and Davila are selling.
I will also say more a more of what I hear about Judge Cardone disappoints me as I wanted he reelected as a State District Judge.

[mad_as_he$$]

Some of the "information" seems to be different than previously stated by Sutton and others. humm.

[Labyrinthos]

I think this is a very well-reasoned and informative article. It's nice to read material from cooler heads once in a while.

I haven't been following this story all that closely, and so, I don't know how much of the article is in dispute. I do note, however, the following discrepency from the article:

According to the article, there were several other border patrol agents at the scene, and yet the author claims that

Once Aldrete-Davila was down from Ramos’s shot to the backside, they decided, for a second time, not to grab him so he could face justice for his crimes. As they well knew, an arrest at that point — after 15 shots at a fleeing, unarmed man who had tried to surrender — would have shone a spotlight on their performance. So instead, they exacerbated the already shameful display. Instead of arresting the wounded smuggler, they put their guns away and left him behind. But not before trying to conceal the improper discharge of their firearms. Compean picked up and hid his shell-casings rather than leaving the scene intact for investigators. Both agents filed false reports, failing to record the firing of their weapons though they were well aware of regulations requiring that they do so. Because the “heroes” put covering their tracks ahead of doing their duty, Aldrete-Davila was eventually able to limp off to a waiting car and escape into Mexico.

If there were other agents at the scene and this wounded illegal was still able to escape as Compean and Ramos sanitized the area, then every agent at the scene should get fired for gross incompetence. What happened to the other agents?