Posted on 08/25/2012 12:35:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was shot up by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government workers wounded.
Officials from both nations said the federal officers were chasing criminals Friday morning when a hail of bullets was fired at the embassy sport utility vehicle, but the accounts left many questions unanswered.
The two American workers were taken to a hospital in the nearby resort city of Cuernavaca. One had a gunshot wound in his leg and the other was wounded in the stomach and a hand, said a Mexican government official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hospital officials in Cuernavaca said the wounded were later transferred to a Mexico City hospital in stable condition.
The U.S. Embassy did not release the names of the injured workers, who it said were heading to a military training base south of Mexico City. Its statement said the employees and a Mexican naval captain traveling with them were fired on by a group of men, and were chased when they tried to escape. The naval officer was not seriously injured.
Mexico's federal police agency acknowledged that its own officers fired on the embassy's SUV, which appeared to be armored and has diplomatic plates. It said the officers were in the area looking for criminals, but it did not explain what happened.
Its statement said at least four vehicles fired at the embassy vehicle on a road south of the capital, but it did not clarify whether any or all of them were federal police units. Federal police spokesmen did not respond to The Associated Press requesting further comment.
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“workers” —the author is bending over backwards to not say, Marines.
That’s important.
Who shoots first before any identification of the target is made? Professional law enforcement officers or murderous criminals plying their trade.
Turns out it wasn’t the Mexicans firing, it was NYPD shooting at another suspect a mile away.
“Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was shot up by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the capital”
Uh, because someone paid them to?
Forget it, Jake. It’s Mexico.
This baby better have SERIOUS SHOCKS, TIRES and BRAKES. I do not want to be behind it when that stick lights off!
Then again, the intimidation factor may be enough!
No shite... Aztecs just got their fingers stuck in the trigger guards and it just kept on going bang. Besides it was fee ammo and sounded like fireworks.
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