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Group seeks $100M for woman killed by US border agent
AP via msn ^ | 24 May 2019 | NOMAAN MERCHANT

Posted on 05/24/2019 2:14:38 AM PDT by blueplum

HOUSTON — Advocates demanded $100 million in damages Thursday on behalf of the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; ambulancechasers; borderpatrol; courts; guatamala; immigration
The ACLU of TX at it again, suing for ridiculous amounts. For perspective, Rodney King got 3.8M, so $100M seems outlandish. Especially since no American citizen has ever been awarded that by any foreign govt (Kate Steinle comes to mind) If they can't get in, they'll find a way to try to bleed us dry - using American lawyers with no skin in the game to do so. Such an insult
1 posted on 05/24/2019 2:14:38 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

We won’t ever kill you if you stay in your respective shitholes.
The End


2 posted on 05/24/2019 2:45:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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$100,000,000? Even 100,000,000¢ would be too much.


3 posted on 05/24/2019 3:21:01 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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They killed ONE illegal? What a shame.


4 posted on 05/24/2019 3:35:29 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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They based that amount on what she would have screwed the American Taxpayers had she lived and stayed here.

Oh, BTW... F her.

5 posted on 05/24/2019 3:47:42 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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We not only have enemies invading we have enemies here helping the enemy invaders


6 posted on 05/24/2019 3:54:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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I’m guessing those would be Venezuelan dollars? That seems about right, then.


7 posted on 05/24/2019 3:58:02 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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$100,000,000...

That’s a whole lotta illegal house cleaning. A house cleaner would have to clean 80-100 houses a day to earn that over the course of a lifetime.


8 posted on 05/24/2019 4:22:49 AM PDT by moovova
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A hundred million?

OK, I agree*....

*A hundred million worth of small arms ammunition fired in a southerly direction at these cockroaches.


9 posted on 05/24/2019 4:29:28 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (I survive on Caffeine & Hate & sometimes Whiskey.)
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Give the family $500 and make them among the richest people in Guatemala.

And give the ACLU of Texas approximately....ZERO!

10 posted on 05/24/2019 4:40:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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CBP's initial statement on May 23, 2018, about Gómez González's death said that the agent used his gun after being attacked by "multiple subjects using blunt objects." The agency called Gómez González an assailant.

The agency revised its statement a day later to say Gómez González was "one member of the group" that rushed the agent and ignored orders to get on the ground. The statement said the agent fired one round.

11 posted on 05/24/2019 6:10:49 AM PDT by gaijin
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$100,000,000.00!??? What nitwits. Send the family a bill for all the trouble she caused. These invading illegal alien criminals should stay in their own sh**hole countries of origin.


12 posted on 05/24/2019 8:51:44 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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from the nydn and the aclu filing:

“Gómez, a “petite woman with of small build” was walking about a third of a mile from the Rio Grande river with a few other people when a single Border Patrol agent responded to reports of illegal activity May last year.
The agent came into contact with Gómez and the others in a vacant lot. Two of the people in the group ran toward the river, and two ran toward abandoned mobile home lots while Gómez and one other remained in the vacant lot, the lawsuit says. After the agent drew his weapon, Gómez took a step, and the agent shot.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-aclu-border-patrol-shot-woman-20190524-wce2xhp7uzczznozxrjr6ekb5e-story.html

The other side of the door:

we might logically ask, when the ‘new normal behavior’ of illegals seeking amnesty was to sit and surrender to the first BP they encountered, why did they run?
Instead, the officer observed “new abnormal behavior” : two high-tail it to the river back to Mexico and two hoof into an abandoned mobile home, leaving the slowpokes behind in their dust. Not normal.

Slowpokes are still standing and are ordered to the ground (likely in Spanish). Was there any shouting between the mobile home/river/slowpokes? Attitude towards officer? Anything thrown? Observed? Don’t know all that yet but we do know there was NO positive responsive action. We do know there’s a double-dose of ‘not normal’ behavior. The officer draws his weapon and repeats the command. One or both come towards his perimeter. He fires a single shot.

Sure there’s more to the story, but even with the basic elements, it’s not quite as cold-blooded as the ACLU would like folk to think.


13 posted on 05/24/2019 7:02:59 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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