So was Mussolini. Your post is dishonest in its implications.
I have REAL problems with the sentences handed down to these guys. I don't think they should have gotten any prison time at all. Neither did the judge, btw. These were mandatory sentencing guidelines. However, this was a bad shoot and these guys lied about it and tried to cover it up. They deserved to be fired.
What is worse is that you know this, and then try to paint it like they were noble brave civil servants merely doing their duty, and were railroaded because they shot a violent drug dealer who threatened them. This is either dishonest or stupid.
Finally, I believe these guys should be pardoned from jail time, but the firing should remain on their records. They lied about what happened. If they had been honest about it they might have received a reprimand and/or suspension. They wrote their own sentences.
Whoops!
Sorry about that. I read a "were" into your original that wasn't there. Paris in the the spring and all that. I thought you were referrring to their termination, and you were referring to the discharge of weapons. I misread it, and therefore, the crack about Benito doesn't make sense.
A more accurate rebuttal to that might be "So did Willam Calley" or "so did the officers who broke into the house of that 90+ year old woman in Atlanta on a no-knock warrant (they shot her to death)." Merely discharging your weapon while on duty does not make it an honest shoot, AND even if it IS a good shoot, lying about it and trying to cover it up kinda dampens your credibility.
>Ramos and Compean fired in the line of duty.
>>So was Mussolini. Your post is dishonest in its implications.<<
LOL! No, DOP, they FIRED A GUN at the escaping drug runner. I didn’t mean they were fired. I have urged the President to pardon these men.