Welcome to America: Texas Police Sniper Guns Down Immigrants From Helicopter
Remember a few months ago how a DEA helicopter was used to gun down two pregnant women and tw o 14-yr-old boys in Honduras because they were “suspected” of being drug dealers? Well, those same tactics are now being used in America. After being pulled over for having a suspect “covered truck bed,” a vehicle which fled from Texas game wardens was shot at by Texas “Department of Public Safety” agents with a sniper rifle from a helicopter. While the police claim they were intending to disable the car, they instead killed two passengers, and sent another to the hospital. No drugs were found, and the DPS says their shooting was “within policy.” My San Antonio reports: LA JOYA — Skid marks and a patch of dried blood in the gravel of a desolate country road were about the only signs left Friday of a deadly pursuit that happened here. |
“During the pursuit, the vehicle appeared to have a typical ‘covered’ drug load in the bed of the truck,” Vinger said. “DPS aircraft joined the pursuit of the suspected drug lord, which was traveling at reckless speeds, endangering the public. A DPS trooper discharged his firearm from the helicopter to disable the vehicle.”
No drugs were found in the truck.
During interviews at a Border Patrol facility, survivors told consular officials that the men died from gunfire, and that their cover was flimsy and blowing off, enough so that the trooper in the helicopter could see them.
Vinger said the officer who discharged his weapon was placed on administrative leave.
[...]The policy warns that when shooting at a vehicle “there may be a risk of harm to occupants of the suspect vehicle who may not be involved, or involved to a lesser extent, with the actions of the suspect creating the threat.”
Use of force expert Geoffrey Alpert, a professor at the University of South Carolina who has studied pursuits at police departments across the country, said he’d “never heard of” law enforcement agencies allowing officers to shoot at vehicles from helicopters.
“There’s a trend to restrict officers from shooting at vehicles at all,” Alpert said. “It’s not an efficient or effective policy to let officers shoot from vehicles, and certainly not from a helicopter.”
[...]“We can’t give up swaths of land to organized thugs and criminals,” DPS Director McCraw said recently. Indeed, we can’t “give up huge swaths of land to organized thugs and criminals,” that’s why we need to shut these out of control police and border patrol down immediately.
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