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Title: U.S. border cop charged with murdering Mexican
Source: Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/topN ... 07?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true
Published: Aug 7, 2007
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2007-08-07 08:25:03 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 844
Comments: 49

U.S. border cop charged with murdering Mexican

Tue Aug 7, 2007 7:34AM EDT

BISBEE, Arizona (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent must stand trial for murder in the shooting of a Mexican man trying to enter the United States, an Arizona judge ruled Monday in a case that drew criticism from Mexico.

Agent Nicholas Corbett was charged in April with four counts of homicide in the January 12 shooting of Francisco Dominguez Rivera shortly after he crossed the border illegally on a stretch of desert between Douglas and Naco.

Cochise County Justice of the Peace David Morales ruled the evidence supported lesser charges of second-degree murder, but threw out charges of first-degree murder, which supposes premeditation.

The ruling followed a preliminary hearing that heard evidence from three illegal immigrants present at the shooting, a pathologist, county sheriff's detectives and two Border Patrol supervisors.

No date was set for Corbett's arraignment.

Following the killing, Mexico's Foreign Ministry complained of "disproportionate violence" and instructed the Mexican Embassy in Washington to investigate the circumstances.

Last year, border police captured 1.1 million undocumented immigrants crossing over the border from Mexico and recorded a soaring number of attacks on agents.

Lawyers for Corbett argue he shot Dominguez Rivera in self-defense after he was threatened with a rock.


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I'd shoot him too if he threatened m/with a rock.

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#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

I'd shoot him too if he threatened m/with a rock.

I am amazed how easy people kill, and also how they earn support for killing someone. I agree he is an illegal and they should not come in. If they do i would put my anger towards the goverment. I have in my mighty goverment arsenal many weapons that will knock you out good but NOT kill you. I know they look dirty don't know the language and so on and so on but they still have a mom or a child somewhere...... and however whatever they are it is not an excuse for you becoming a civilized "animal"

LostBody  posted on  2007-08-07   12:39:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: LostBody (#5)

You have no idea what it entails, to guard a border. You don't give a soldier or agent a gun, and tell them not to use it. What exactly are these agents supposed to do?

PercyDovetonsils  posted on  2007-08-07   12:48:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: PercyDovetonsils (#6)

Actually i know it first hand. In Greece there is military draft. As i soldier i we had to control the border to albania. And shooting was only permited if a gun was there. We were not to shoot if we would get attacked with knife if there were more than 2 of us present. And again........ first legs and hands.

LostBody  posted on  2007-08-07   20:45:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: LostBody (#12)

We were not to shoot if we would get attacked with knife if there were more than 2 of us present. And again........ first legs and hands.

Ah, the 'flesh wound' tactic. Lovely. I was trained - and I assume every academy in the nation is the same - that if your life was in danger and you pulled your gun, be prepared to shoot. The silhouette we used didn’t contain limbs. We were trained to shoot into the chest. Period, end of threat. Now I'm no John Wayne, but if an illegal comes at me w/a rock, and I feel my life is in danger, he goes. This as it should be.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-08-07   21:43:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Jethro Tull (#15)

but if an illegal comes at me w/a rock, and I feel my life is in danger, he goes. This as it should be.

There is no other way.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-07   21:54:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#26. To: Cynicom (#17)

There is no other way.

Shall we pelt them with tacos and refried beans? Good lord, is it any wonder this nation is breathing fumes?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-08-07 23:03:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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