This was certainly not "patty cake" time...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20071220-9999-1m20station.html
Soldiers guard police station after shooting
By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
December 20, 2007
ROSARITO BEACH – A day after gunmen stormed the Rosarito Beach police station, killing one officer and wounding another, dozens of soldiers stood guard around the building and work crews started repairing the broken glass and bullet-nicked walls.
The attack’s apparent target, Public Security Director Jorge Eduardo Montero Alvarez, was being shuttled around the city under heavy guard as funeral arrangements were made for his fallen bodyguard, Officer Guillermo Castro Corona, 35.
Montero’s other bodyguard, Leonel Pizaña Trip, was recovering from the attack. Information on the conditions of two other injured people, unidentified civilians, were unavailable yesterday.
Tuesday’s attack occurred at 12:40 p.m. It was the third attack in recent weeks against people who were named to high-level public security positions in new administrations in Rosarito Beach, Tijuana and Tecate.
“It appears the drug traffickers are reaffirming their power over the territory they dominate,” said Victor Clark, director of the Binational Center of Human Rights in Tijuana. “They are showing that they continue controlling the zone and have power above the law.”
The Arellano Félix cartel has controlled the region’s drug trafficking for several decades. Many of the cartel’s top leaders have been arrested in the past few years, though it remains a major force along this section of the border. Competing drug groups are posing a larger threat to them, however, and the additional players could create havoc in police agencies where traffickers typically form alliances with certain officers.