[theDentist]

"When investigators tried to stop her sedan, officials said, she rammed their unmarked vehicles and accelerated toward agents, who opened fire without being able to see who was at the wheel."

When a driver tries to run down a cop (or agents), they are allowed to defend themselves using deadly force, or else they or other bystanders could be killed. It's a pity, but it's not the agents' fault.

[clamper1797]

When a driver tries to run down a cop (or agents), they are allowed to defend themselves using deadly force

Absolutely ... but ... how is it that the fatal shot came from the rear

[shadowman99]

>> When a driver tries to run down a cop (or agents), they are allowed to defend themselves using deadly force, or else they or other bystanders could be killed. It's a pity, but it's not the agents' fault.

These agents were in plain clothes gang-banger wear. She probably thought she was getting car-jacked. You would drive desperately too if somebody in their finest urbanwear pointed a gun at your car.

[dwollmann]

Unmarked vehicles...guys in suits. Do you instantly assume the position every time a guy in a suit threatens you? That's what we call a slave mentality, isn't it?

The War on Some People Who Use Some Drugs (Only Because They Don't Generate Profits for Wall Street) claims yet another innocent victim.

[babygene]

" When a driver tries to run down a cop (or agents), they are allowed to defend themselves using deadly force"

The way this was reported earlier, the agents in two un-marked cars boxed her in from the front and rear. She rammed into one (or both) of the cars and was shot. If that is the way it went down, then her actions would seem reasonable under the circumstances. She might not have had any way of knowing they were agents.

[SteveH]

I think you glossed over the part about "...officials said..." and presumed their word is uncontested fact.

The only uncontested facts here are that two undercover cops killed a 14 year old girl in an escalation of violence initiated by the cops. And they are sticking to their (stupid) story. The WOD is not worth this, or other police actions like Waco. If it takes big lawsuits like this to stop the WOD, then let's get down to it.

[Roscoe]

"Federal officials say the car pulled away from the house at high speed with the headlights off. When agents tried to box the car in, they say, the girl kept coming toward them and crashed into their vehicle, then threw the car into reverse and rammed the DEA vehicle behind her."

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:L7tR7b85VJoC:www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1780133