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Gee Bob, all the more reason not seek employment as a drug trafficker illegally smuggling drugs into foreign countries.

[Bob J]

You, as long with the others, just don’t get it. Ramos and Compean didn’t know OVD was a drug smuggler, they didn’t know he was an illegal, they didn’t know anything except that he took them on a short pursuit down a dirt road in a van and then tried to run toward Mexico...before they pulled their weapons and tried to gun him down.

I have my own opinions about what happened and I think the biggest loser in this was Ramos. Compean got mad because the perp got away and shot 15 times...and missed, from a distance far shorter then Ramos (hello?).

Compean was never trying to hit OVD, but Ramos didn’t know that, saw and heard Compean shooting and erroneously believed there to be a firefight. He did what he was trained to do.

Ramos got screwed by Compean’s inability to control his anger. But they both screwed themselves with their unbelievable “black shiny object” story, their inconsistent and unpersuasive testimony, their attempts to cover it up and their defense attorneys horrible strategy.

So no, they don’t belong in prison but they also don’t deserve adulation and uncritical support of their actions.