Another border shooting

[EVT1]

Oct 3, 2012 20:29:00 GMT -5 vandalshandle said:

And, yet, the government is breaking everybody's balls in California and Colorado, among other places, to stop the distribution of pot UNDER A DOCTOR"S PRESCRIPTION to cancer victims who seek to diminish the side effects of chemotherapy, which, likely as not, was due to lung cancers from smoking tobacco.

I shake my head in wonder and amazement, while asking myself, are we all insane?

Either insane or following an agenda. Pharma isn't hip to the idea of people growing their own medicine- especially when it is better and cheaper. I doubt the liquor and beer lobbies are a fan of it either for the same reasons.

Just legalize it already- what's the point anymore- it's down to a parking ticket at best in most places if they even cite you. It would be real nice for corporate America not to be able to fire or not hire someone because they got high at a concert 3 weekends ago on their own time.

[b2r]

Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times


PHOENIX (AP) -- A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday.

"It was a burst of gunfire," Nogales Mayor Ramon Guzman Munoz told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It was a hail of bullets."

Guzman called the episode "deplorable" and urged a thorough investigation by both U.S. and Mexican authorities.

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The Border Patrol said several agents responded Wednesday night to reports of suspected drug smugglers in Nogales, Ariz. The agents watched two people abandon a load of narcotics, then run back to Mexico, according to the Border Patrol. They were then pelted by rocks thrown from across the border. The agency said the people ignored orders to stop, and an agent open fire.

The Sonora state attorney general's office in Mexico said in a statement Thursday that Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, from Nogales, Sonora, was found dead at the border from gunshot wounds about midnight Wednesday.

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[billisonboard]

Oct 13, 2012 11:58:06 GMT -5 b2r said:

Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times


PHOENIX (AP) -- A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday.

"It was a burst of gunfire," Nogales Mayor Ramon Guzman Munoz told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It was a hail of bullets."

Guzman called the episode "deplorable" and urged a thorough investigation by both U.S. and Mexican authorities.

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The Border Patrol said several agents responded Wednesday night to reports of suspected drug smugglers in Nogales, Ariz. The agents watched two people abandon a load of narcotics, then run back to Mexico, according to the Border Patrol. They were then pelted by rocks thrown from across the border. The agency said the people ignored orders to stop, and an agent open fire.

The Sonora state attorney general's office in Mexico said in a statement Thursday that Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, from Nogales, Sonora, was found dead at the border from gunshot wounds about midnight Wednesday.

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Good thing?

[vandalshandle]

They are hiring border patrol people down here so fast that I suspect that they are not getting enough training. The kid was throwing rocks at the BP guy, and he shoots the kid dead with 7 rounds...while he was in Mexico. Two weeks ago, one of our agents was killed by "friendly fire".

[mmhmm]

There's no such thing as "friendly fire", folks. If a weapon is fired at a human being, there's nothing friendly in the action.

I know you're aware of this, vandalshandle. I'm just making the point.

[vandalshandle]

Well, one thing is for sure. I will still go to Nogales for dental appointments, but I am not going to hang out by the border fence at midnight when people are climbing over with packages of drugs!

[Tennesseer]

Shooting Mexican citizens who are on Mexican territory is not a good thing. Even if they did drop their drugs on the U.S. side of the border.