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To: wildbill
There is one thing that I haven't seen brought out yet.
If the DEA agents were there to arrest the father, had they just arrived?
Or did they have the house under surveillance?
If they had just arrived they had no idea who was in the car and should not have tried to stop it in that fashion.
If they had the house under surveillance they did know who was in the car, knew the young girl was driving, mistook the uncle for her father, and tried to stop the car. This would have been a breakdown in the surveillance as the father was not in the car.

The young girls inexperience could have led her to drive with lights off and take off at a higher than normal rate of speed.
When confronted with a situation such as being boxed in by two cars panic sets in and she goes back and forth, the agents get out of their car, draw their weapons, the girl sees men with weapons and tries to run them over or just drives in their direction trying to get out of the situation.

I have a few questions...
Was the house under surveillance?
Were there uniformed officers present?
Why did agents, when confronted with a car that was ramming theirs, get out of the car and stand in harms way? Is that standard procedure?

110 posted on 03/13/2003 1:47:40 PM PST by Just another Joe (FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe
The house was under surveillance. The DEA says they saw the father drive away in another car I believe. The agents claim to have been wearing vests with ID on them and say they identified themselves. This is disputed by local residents and Swat team vests seem inappropriate for surveillance work.

I don't know why they didn't step out of the way. The girl's car seems to have been completely hemmed in.

There are a lot of inconsistencies in the report of the DEA.
116 posted on 03/13/2003 3:44:13 PM PST by wildbill
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