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August 8, 2006
Border Agents Thrown in Jail for Chasing Drug-Smuggling Alien
Posted by Dave Blount at August 8, 2006 1:53 PM
Last February Ignacio Ramos responded to a request for backup from fellow Border Patrol agent Jose Alonso Compean, who had noticed a suspicious van near the Rio Grande River in the El Paso area. The van turned out to be carrying 800 pounds of marijuana. The two of them and another agent chased Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, an illegal alien and drug smuggler who headed back for Mexico on foot.
Shots were fired. Ramos saw Compean on the ground bleeding and kept chasing the criminal, who turned toward him and apparently pointed a gun. Ramos shot at him and seemed to miss. Aldrete-Davila got into another van that was waiting for him on the other side of the river and escaped.
It turns out the bad guy was wounded in the buttocks during this incident. Here's how our authorities handled the matter:
Aldrete-Davila was given full immunity and free medical treatment. Ramos and Compean were arrested for violating his civil rights.
Squealed U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof:
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it is a violation of someone's Fourth Amendment rights to shoot them in the back while fleeing if you don't know who they are and/or if you don't know they have a weapon.
But Aldrete-Davis did have a weapon. Or did he? It turns out he might not have.
Kanof also pointed out that it is a violation of Border Patrol policy for agents to pursue fleeing suspects. Yet we are supposed to believe that our bureaucrats have any interest whatsoever in defending the country, and that there is some point to even having a Border Patrol when moonbats with law degrees won't let them do their job.
Ramos asks:
How are we supposed to follow the Border Patrol strategy of apprehending terrorists or drug smugglers if we are not supposed to pursue fleeing people? Everybody who's breaking the law flees from us. What are we supposed to do? Do they want us to catch them or not?
Obviously, the answer is not.
Ramos and Compean have both been convicted of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, which carries an automatic 10-year sentence. They are also charged with other crimes, and could both end up in jail for 20 years. That's what they get for doing a job the authorities don't want done.
Meanwhile, the El Paso's Sheriff's Department is keeping an eye on the Ramos home, because the family is receiving death threats apparently related to Aldrete-Davis' bullet in the butt. These threats need to be taken very seriously, since thanks to moonbattery, Mexican criminals can cross the border at will.
More on this appalling story can be found here, and here, and here.
On a tip from Steve.
