Border Patrol video of shooting leaked to Internet (link to video)

Signs on San Diego ^ | Greg Gross

[Ladycalif]

CALEXICO – Surveillance video of a deadly shooting last month of a would-be illegal migrant by a Border Patrol agent is prompting calls by the Mexican government for an investigation, although it shows the agent apparently firing in self-defense.

A Border Patrol video of that incident, derived from those surveillance images and originally meant as an internal report to Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, has since been leaked onto the Internet.

Ramiro Gamez Acosta, 20, was shot once in the chest by an agent armed with an M-4 carbine last March 26. He died within minutes.

[Ladycalif]

Viva La Migra Ping

[Psycho_Bunny]

Judging from the video, that's a 100% "righteous" shooting.

[Obie Wan]

Well looks like it’s time for Johnny Sutton to go into the phone booth change his cloths and come out as “Border Patrol Exterminator Man” !!!

[duckman]

Ongoing note to Mexico’s govt: If you provide meaningful employment to your citizens they will stay in Mexico.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Would you throw a rock while an officer holds a gun on you? Why would someone do that? This guy won’t do it again.

[TomGuy]

A Border Patrol video of that incident, derived from those surveillance images and originally meant as an internal report to Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, has since been leaked onto the Internet.





Direct MS Player link to the video: Video of shooting in WMV format.

[cripplecreek]

Looks justified to me.

Granted, a rock may or may not be seen as a deadly weapon, it is an incapacitating weapon that could give the perp access to the border agent’s gun.

[hophead]

That’ll teach him!

[TADSLOS]

Never bring a rock to a gunfight.

[TomGuy]

Maybe the poor widdle illegal alien wanted to play Rock Paper Scissors and the border patrol agent didn’t.

lol

[Ajnin]

He decided that since the agent in front him was pointing a rifle at him he would hit the agent sitting in the truck. That’s my theory. That seems to be the way these people think.

[Paladin2]

It would appear that the video has been edited to remove the events leading up to the shooting (Since it is issued by the MSM, it’s just a typical smear job).

[Ladycalif]

Gun beats rock, it would seem.

[deport]

It would appear that the video has been edited to remove the events leading up to the shooting (Since it is issued by the MSM, it’s just a typical smear job).

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Hard to tell what is truly happening in this sequence.... The following is from another account.....

It all began shortly before 6 p.m. Monday, when agents began searching a truck lot just north of the All-American Canal for a group of seven suspected illegal immigrants.

Six were caught, but the seventh jumped into the canal, swam across and ran south back toward the border with agents in pursuit, Lozano said.

As the man ran toward the border fence, about five or six people on the Mexican side of the fence in Mexicali scaled the fence, jumped onto the American side and started throwing rocks at the pursuing agents, Lozano said. They also threw rocks at the suspected illegal immigrant running toward them, he said.

“They were just flinging rocks all over the place,” the agent said.

They also lit and threw a Molotov cocktail at the agents, said Lozano. The homemade bomb landed near the agents, but failed to explode, he said.

With agents closing in, the man being pursued picked up a large rock and turned toward the agents, with his arm cocked back to throw the rock, Lozano said.

“He was face-to-face with the agents, just feet away,” he said. At that point, one of the agents fired one shot from an M-4, a shorter version of the M-16 rifle. The man was hit and mortally wounded. He was taken to El Centro Regional Medical Center, where he died about 20 minutes later, Lozano said.

Of the six people caught in the truck lot, five were determined to be illegal immigrants and allowed to voluntarily return to Mexico, said Lozano. The sixth was found to have a misdemeanor warrant pending against him and was turned over to Imperial County sheriff's deputies, he said.

[Ladycalif]

It is very close to where we are in Campo.
http://www.campominutemen.com/

[ca centered]

Absolutely justied

[Issaquahking]

If a video had been made of Ramos and Compean, or Gilmer Hernandez, I'd bet the farm they'd be free as I type this...


Jefferson was right...


God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson

[Former Proud Canadian]

Didn’t see the agent in the car, guess he got him just in time.

[SwinneySwitch]

BTTT