Police: Border Patrol agent fatally shoots rock-throwing migrant

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- San Diego police and FBI officials are investigating the fatal shooting of a Mexican man by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a rock-throwing altercation at the border fence, authorities said Wednesday.

The Tuesday evening altercation involved two Border Patrol agents and three migrants allegedly trying to cross the border from Tijuana, Mexico, authorities said.

"A thorough, multi-agency investigation is currently being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and San Diego Police Department," a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said in a statement.

Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry strongly condemned the shooting of the Mexican national, who authorities said fell off the border fence upon being shot and died on the Mexican side of the border.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/22/california.border.shooting/index.html

[Downwinder]

1. Kind of hard to throw rocks while hanging on a chain link fence.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

2. Rocks are lethal weapons...

... two kids killed a Sudanese immigrant with a rock to the head in a back alley on Friday, June 17, 2011 in Sioux Falls, SD.

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[Downwinder]

3. I didn't question a rock being lethal. I just question throwing it while

hanging on to a 12' chain link fence.

[frylock]

6. ...and died on the mexican side of the border.

one more time for emphasis:

AND DIED ON THE MEXICAN SIDE OF THE BORDER.

[WatsonT]

8. Rocks thrown across borders are magically turned in to nerf toys

everyone knows that.

[frylock]

11. rocks thrown over a twenty foot fence are not lethal..

everyone knows that.

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[PavePusher]

16. Please come stand right here.....

That fence? Oh, nothing to worry about, I'm sure....

[frylock]

17. you go right ahead and chuck your rocks over the fence at me..

they're a lot easier to dodge than bullets.

[slackmaster]

18. Gravity

How does it work?

[IamK]

4. never throw rocks @ a person with a gun or run from a fat cop....

words to LIVE by....

[DreamSmoker]

5. If you think this is OK???

Next it will be some one else for profanity...
Even most Police are trained how to respond to this kind of thing without using Deadly Force..
That gun they carry is only supposed to be used when an Officer or others are in Mortal Danger...
Scared for their very lives...
And just what kind of non lethal forces to these officer carry and are trained to use?????
Do they even have these weapons???
Most local Police do....

[Lasher]

7. At least some of them carry stun guns.

One guy died of a heart attack in May last year after border patrol agents subdued him with a stun gun. I don't think the agent could have used a stun gun as a deterrent in this case.

[slackmaster]

10. Bogus Slippery Slope argument is fallacious

California and federal law are pretty clear on what qualifies as justifiable use of deadly force.

[WatsonT]

9. Throwing rocks at an armed man, a bad idea?

More on this story as it develops.

[Nossida]

13. Is the IDF doing southern US Boarder Patrol?

Shooting illegal's while trying to enter is
cynical murder. How long until ICE shoots
illegals in the Streets of American Cities
is anyone's guess. Shooting a Human Being
for tossing a rock is moral bankruptcy. But
rest assured Rightwing Christian Republicans
will think it proper. The recent shooting of
an Iraqi War Veteran with 70 shots in Southern
Arizona was found to be proper by the Police
State Investigators. And this incident will
be judged justified just the same.

Enjoy your Police State Yanks.
You no longer have any choice,
or say so in the matter.

[Llewlladdwr]

14. Apparently, you've never been hit with a rock. NT

[Supply Side Jesus]

15. wrong

but thanks for posting