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Border Agent Kills Man Who Threw Rock at Him
Newser ^ | 2/18/14 | Kate Seamons

Posted on 02/19/2014 11:11:48 AM PST by Impala64ssa

Agent was patrolling known smuggling trail near San Diego

A US Border Patrol agent who claims he feared for his life after a rock hit his head reacted by shooting and killing the man who hurled the stone. It marks the ninth fatal shooting involving rock throwing since 2010. The unnamed agent was patrolling a smuggling trail east of San Diego early Tuesday when he came upon men suspected of crossing the border illegally; rocks were thrown at him, with one hitting his head. The San Diego Union-Tribune describes one of them as being as large as a basketball, and many of the rest fist-sized. The AP reports that the incident fuels an ongoing debate over whether lethal force is justified as a response to rock attacks. The Border Patrol has long maintained that rocks are deadly weapons, and has rejected proposals that would prevent it from responding to them with deadly force.

Under current policy, agents can use deadly force if they have a reasonable belief that their lives or the lives of others are in danger. Agents were attacked with rocks 185 times in the 2012 fiscal year, making it the No. 2 type of assault, according to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general. They responded with gunfire 22 times and with less-than-lethal force—such as pepper spray and batons—42 times. The rock-thrower was pronounced dead at the scene; it's unclear how many times he was shot, but the agent fired at least twice. The agent has been placed on paid administrative leave, reports the Los Angeles Times.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: borderpatrol; sandiego
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Rocks don't kill or maim? Just ask the Israelis who live near the Gaza. LULAC and laRaza will be demanding Justice Dept. investigations in 3...2...1...
1 posted on 02/19/2014 11:11:48 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Good


2 posted on 02/19/2014 11:13:27 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Impala64ssa
Agents were attacked with rocks 185 times in the 2012 fiscal year, making it the No. 2 type of assault, according to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general. They responded with gunfire 22 times and with less-than-lethal force—such as pepper spray and batons—42 times.

At other times or in other countries securing the borders would have meant responding with gunfire 185 out of 185 times.

3 posted on 02/19/2014 11:14:42 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Impala64ssa

Silly Mexican brought a rock to a gun fight.


4 posted on 02/19/2014 11:14:52 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Impala64ssa

If any liberal wants to see if a fist sized rock is dangerous, I’ll be happy to use you as a demo.


5 posted on 02/19/2014 11:15:51 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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I’d be for shooting them whether they threw rocks or not.


6 posted on 02/19/2014 11:17:33 AM PST by ZX12R (Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
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To: Impala64ssa

A rock can be a deadly weapon, especially if thrown at someone who is patrolling by himself in the middle of nowhere.


7 posted on 02/19/2014 11:19:22 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Impala64ssa

To whom it may concern:

I’ll stand on Home Plate, you stand on Second Base.

Let me throw 3 rocks at you.

Then tell me the capacity for a rock to kill or maim.


8 posted on 02/19/2014 11:19:26 AM PST by G Larry
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When you’re an illegal alien, it isn’t very bright to clobber a federal agent with a boulder. You can’t fix stupid. Give him a Darwin Award posthumously.


9 posted on 02/19/2014 11:20:54 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As government expands, liberty contracts. - President Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: G Larry

bump


10 posted on 02/19/2014 11:21:05 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Impala64ssa

that rocks ;-)


11 posted on 02/19/2014 11:22:45 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: dead

yup.


12 posted on 02/19/2014 11:26:51 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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The Border Patrol has long maintained that rocks are deadly weapons

Notice how this Corporate Media "news article" is written to give the impression that it is merely the Border Patrols opinion that rocks are a deadly weapon. The hack that wrote this tripe has rocks in his head.

13 posted on 02/19/2014 11:27:45 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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When sneaking illegal into this Country, do throw rocks at people.

Good shoot.


14 posted on 02/19/2014 11:27:56 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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I cannot wait until the Mexicans start using fire arms and declaring the Border Patrol personnel invaders trespassing on reconquered territory.


15 posted on 02/19/2014 11:28:51 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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The border fence near San Diego is like the Maginot Line. The illegals go around it. The fence stops in the area where this shooting happened. I am familiar with that area. There is so much foot traffic in the hills there that you can see the trails from miles away.


16 posted on 02/19/2014 11:29:35 AM PST by forgotten man
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Rocks don't kill or maim? Just ask the Israelis who live near the Gaza...

The rock size only determines the number of rocks needed.


17 posted on 02/19/2014 11:30:03 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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What's the big deal?
Obama has declared that illegals are welcome here so who was this border agent to try and disrespect President Fubar's intentions by doing his job?
I'm tempted to put a sarcasm tag on this post except that today's sarcasm is tomorrows truth. Look for an order to border agents from up high forbidding any attempt to defend themselves against rock throwers and other defenseless border children.
18 posted on 02/19/2014 11:31:32 AM PST by Larry381 ("God is dead." (Nietzsche, 1885) "Nietzsche is dead." (God, 1900))
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Matthias:Look. I— I’d had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, ‘That piece of halibut was good enough for
Jehovah.’

Priest: Stop! Stop! Will you stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand? Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say Jehova!


19 posted on 02/19/2014 11:32:15 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Good riddance to this illegal alien scum..I hate it how the media calls these cockroaches “Illegal Immigrants” they are cockroaches who sneak across the border ILLEGALLY


20 posted on 02/19/2014 11:34:31 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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