The rock size only determines the number of rocks needed.
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.
Good
At other times or in other countries securing the borders would have meant responding with gunfire 185 out of 185 times.
Silly Mexican brought a rock to a gun fight.
If any liberal wants to see if a fist sized rock is dangerous, I’ll be happy to use you as a demo.
I’d be for shooting them whether they threw rocks or not.
A rock can be a deadly weapon, especially if thrown at someone who is patrolling by himself in the middle of nowhere.
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.
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.
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that rocks ;-)
yup.
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.
When sneaking illegal into this Country, do throw rocks at people.
Good shoot.
I cannot wait until the Mexicans start using fire arms and declaring the Border Patrol personnel invaders trespassing on reconquered territory.
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.
The rock size only determines the number of rocks needed.
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!
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
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