Officers Ramos and Compean were sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively for shooting a drug smuggler at the US-Mexican border. Is this right?
2007-02-05 18:13:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
NO!
Have you heard? Border Patrol agent beaten up in prison
Ramos' family confirms: 'They kicked me
in the head, they kicked me all over the body'
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Posted: February 5, 2007
10:27 p.m. Eastern
Ramos told his wife that he was badly bruised and bleeding from the ears. He said that immediately after the attack, he was placed back into solitary confinement, where he has been for the last two days. Has not yet been given medical treatment.
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2007-02-05 18:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by Jan J 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
What can I say, our system sucks. I think it is crazy that Two border patrol agents, trying to protect our country, are looking at 10-12 years in prison because they covered it up. They gave the drug lord immunity just to find the border patrol agents. Here is a major drug dealer who is crying because he was trying to bring drugs into AMERICA and ended up shot in the butt. This country is going to go to hell if the government doesn't step off and do the right thing. We need to seal our borders, get **** under control and make things right for our CITIZENS. Read the story below. It was on America's Most Wanted. Granted there are still questions to be answered but how in the world does an admitted felon and drug smuggler get believed over two men who are trying to protect our country against someone just like the man they shot and had every reason to believe he was a drug smuggler.
2016-03-29 07:15:06 · answer #2 · answered by Cynthia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Officers Ramos and Compean were sentenced to 11 to 12 years for *failure to report* firing their arms in the line of duty, at a suspected drug smuggler whom they failed to capture. If they had done their jobs correctly, they might have just been reprimanded for shooting an unarmed man in the rear. Instead, they tried to hide it. That made it conspiracy, and now they're in jail. These guys aren't heros, they're Barny Fife.
2007-02-07 10:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Beardog 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you have to open your mind in front stuff like that
the drug smuggler was delivery 800 kg of marijuana
in US
now I don't have any idea a much can be in the market
however somebody in US was waiting for this delivery
maybe mob people.
so moral if somebody ruin your business
and if you have the power to punish this guys
you will use this power and that is exactly
what happend in the case of the 2 border patrol agents
and if you think this 2 guys they will survive 11 and 12 years
in jail well think again I give you max 2 years..
this is just mafia and rich people nothing else....
PS
if you have to shoot you have to shoot to kill
death people can not testify against you...
2007-02-05 21:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by frostycookies9 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not according to the facts as I know them, and the prosecutor who is now prosecuting another border patrol officer for shooting an illegal smuggler who tried to run him down, isn't forthcoming with the evidence his witnesses claim to have.
2007-02-06 03:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, that is a hard situation. The trial went to court and I presume a jury handed down the sentence. There must have been enough evidence to prove the Border Patrol agents violated the law.
My father works with Customs and has been in situations where he was forced to draw his weapon. It happens, its real. I'm just sorry to hear that law enforcement agents end up in jail - that usually isn't very pretty.
2007-02-05 18:23:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Absolutely not! They were enforcing their jobs - what they are getting paid for. The fact they were found guilty and sent to prison is absurd enough, but then being placed in the general vicinity with illegal aliens is a crime. What is wrong with the warden of this particular prison?? He should be removed - he is not fit to oversee a prison. This is insane!
2007-02-07 07:24:55 · answer #7 · answered by giancarlo a 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. The US Justice system is heavily flawed, thousands of people have been wrongfully imprisoned since 1776. Hopefully they will be pardoned by the President.
2007-02-05 19:02:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hell no. They should get Presidential pardons, medals, and the chance to shoot that SOB in the front.
...going to prison for doing your job. What a damned shame.
2007-02-05 23:43:14 · answer #9 · answered by Tinnian 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They will get a Presidential Pardon... and another chance to shoot the SOB drug dealer higher up.
2007-02-05 18:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋