Border Patrol Refuses To Stop Shooting People Who Throw Rocks At Them

by veya_victaous Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:43 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/11/05/2889841/border-patrol/

While the current Border Patrol Training Manual holds that “excessive force is strictly prohibited,” the agency views rocks as lethal weapons, and agents are allowed to exercise deadly force when they believe their lives are in jeopardy. But the agency’s use of force has been under suspicion especially since last year, when a border agent shot a 16-year old eleven times for throwing rocks over the fence between Arizona and Mexico. Local Arizona police later held it was unlikely the rocks could have hit anyone.

by veya_victaous Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:44 pm

Think this comment on thinkprogess pretty much sums it up

They have rocks, the others have guns. It's pretty clear who is at fault. Dear US, you are the empire shooting ewoks, not some sort of hero.

Border Patrol Refuses To Stop Shooting People Who Throw Rocks At Them

Border Patrol Refuses To Stop Shooting People Who Throw Rocks At Them

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