Mexican teen dies after bridge shooting by US Border Patrol

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I live on the NY/Ontario border and you bet your ass I would fully expect to get drawn down on and possibly shot if I tried throwing rocks at US customs officers as I was approaching from the canadian side.

Borders are no joke, people need to respect that. if they dont or could care less then they get whats coming to them
 
Here's my opinion then(after reading): you're out of your fucking mind. That shit wasn't even in self defense. They chased the kids back to mexico(offensive) and then shot one in the head twice.
 
No, we just need to let kids play on both sides of the river no-matter what fucked up countries are involved. Should Iran just go ahead and execute the hikers who strayed across some imaginary line?
 
You and those on your side are intentionally dropping context.

This "kid" was a repeat offender who assaulted a uniformed officer. Stop dropping context.
 
fucking prick kids. They should have been beaten by their parents and learned to respect authority
 
Let's go over the simple common sense/logical rules.

1...don't smuggle shit like drugs, guns or other illegals over the border
2...Don't cross the border illegally
3...When you and your friends get caught, don't resist
4...When your friends are being arrested, don't start throwing rocks at the officers
5...If you can't help but be a dumbass and ignore #4, don't be surprised when they start throwing lead back at you
6...When a mexican cop steps foot over the border to pick something up, arrest or shoot his sorry ass too for crossing the border illegally.
 
no it isn't. I got hit with a rock on my upper lips when I was about 10 years old. I only bled for a few hours and got a cool permanent scar.
 
Like hell they don't. This is a perfect example. You probably have not read much or you would know more. People like yourself blindly supporting a kid-killing-cop vs. not advocating shooting kids across the border is a no brainer; now realize aluminum foil is a shield not a receptor so take that shit off and let the truth in, just a little at a time because it's gonna hurt.
 
No one trains with firearms to shoot people in the legs or any small appendage for that matter.

Life isn't a spaghetti western where actors shoot fake guns out of eachothers hands and hats off their heads. If someone is using a gun in defense, it's split second, there is no slow motion to pick and choose less lethal areas to shoot.

You shoot center mass, knock the target down.
 
I bet most of the people in here saying "Little shit deserved it, the border patrol agent was just doing his job and responding to an attack with a lethal weapon." would be having a shit-fit if it happened in some suburban neighborhood with some white fourteen year old kid getting shot and killed because he threw a couple rocks at a cop.
 
The conflicting reports are full of holes. What did they do with the two that were arrested, handcuff them to the bridge then start shooting the others? You then have two witnesses who need to be interviewed...did they escape and one get shot. Sounds like they knew the dead kid and perhaps shot him while under arrest then dumped him back in mexico. "They threw rocks!"

food for thought.
 
Excuse me for bursting your bubble, but 'proper training' includes knowing what you shoot at, and hitting what you shoot, and before all of that...not using your weapon lightly. It's been pointed out, numerous times, that no one is sure if the kid that was killed was even throwing rocks. Any way you look at it, the training was either inadequate or the officer failed to follow it.

Which complicates the nice picture of him going home to his family in safety, when his job is now in question, criminal charges are possible, and god forbid, he has to hug his own 14-15 year old child and think of how his errantly fired round killed one.

The shield can be easily carried on the back of a bike. Just like a child seat can. Either way, I doubt they were riding the bikes around, under the bridge, in the mud. Which means they had to dismount. An extra few seconds to snap a shield off the end of the bike, knowing that they were going into an area where rock attacks have increased dramatically, is common sense.
 
That's the gut shot. We're considering a kid that cannot fire back, and disproportionate force, so shoot em in the legs is my answer to that dilemma.

A double headshot was delivered which only makes the whole scenario even more questionable.

eye witness NPR: kid shot below bridge who "appeared" to be throwing a rock from mexico.
 
Granted I am assuming details of a scenario I did not witness. I respect your position given your different belief as far as what actually happened.
 
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