Posted on 02/06/2007 5:38:10 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
EL PASO, Texas — A former Border Patrol agent who was convicted of shooting a drug smuggling suspect and then lying about it has been beaten by fellow inmates in prison.
Prison officials on Tuesday confirmed assertions by a congressman and relatives of Ignacio Ramos. He was attacked Saturday night after his case was described on the TV show "America's Most Wanted," the officials said.
Ramos suffered minor cuts and bruises, U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said in a statement.
Ramos has been moved to the special housing unit at the medium- and low-security federal prison in Yazoo City, Miss., where he is serving time, Billingsley said.
The convictions of Ramos and fellow former agent Jose Alonso Compean sparked outcry from critics who argued that the men were merely doing their job defending the border against criminals.
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a vocal supporter of the agents and opponent of illegal immigration, criticized the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to protect Ramos and demanded a full presidential pardon for the two men.
"Not only did the administration choose the side of a foreign dope runner over the agents who stopped him from smuggling a load of drugs into the county — now they've failed to protect that agent while his case is on appeal," he said in a statement.
The incident is being investigated, and the four inmates believed to have been involved have been separated from other inmates, Billingsley said.
Ramos and Compean, who reported to prison in January, were each sentenced to more than a decade behind bars. Compean is serving his sentence at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio; no problems have been reported with his detention.
The agents were convicted last year of shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in 2005 near El Paso and then trying to cover up the incident. Davila was shot once in the buttocks.
Ramos' wife, Monica Ramos, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that her husband described being attacked late Saturday, when he "let his guard down." She said the attackers kicked and stomped him for several minutes.
He was able to identify one man in the group, Monica Ramos said.
If he suffered "minor cuts and bruises," then he wasn't "kicked and stomped for several minutes" with the steel-toed boots mentioned in the other thread.
You know that liberals are cheering over this one. A cop put in jail then beaten - a liberal dream scenario.
Mary Stillinger, one of Ramos' attorney's, was just on O'Reilly.
She said a nurse finally examined Ramos yesterday and took some x-rays (but he doesn't have results).
As of this afternoon, he had still not been seen by a doctor.
Um...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779879/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779856/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779802/posts
I just heard that segment--this is an outrage. The big point O'R brought up: how the h*** could something like this happen in the first place? What was he doing in general population?
BUMP!
There is no point in doing the beating if that is all that happened. No way prisoners get Steel-toed boots.
Well, I didn't see it. I'm glad it was reposted, and it was timely, too, since O'Reilly just did a segment on it.
Agreed.
You don't understand. This is a MSM article confirming that the attack, however severe, took place.
That's news.
No, but GUARDS do--a local case involving a beating seems to have included the guards getting in on it too, so it might have happened that way there.
This is from the AP. All your links are other sources.
Sad and true.
Two weeks ago he was complaining about being in isolation.
It looks like his concerns about being in isolation were addressed.
...and there are at least 5 more variants on the story posted in just the last 2 hours
Same story, different sources.
Iow, a legit posting.
Bigger story if that happened. I don't know why the guards would do that.
Our open border crowd is pretty cheerfull about it as well.
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