Hey, y'all, it's Jebediah back for a second time today, to follow up on the earlier post regarding Border Agents. Seems that the government is still going after border agents for doing their mostly thankless jobs
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with murder in the January fatal shooting of a Mexican national while trying to apprehend several illegal aliens near Naco, Ariz.
Cochise County, Ariz., Attorney Ed Rheinheimer yesterday confirmed he has brought charges against Agent Nicholas Corbett, accusing him of first-degree and second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide in the Jan. 12 death of Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico.
"Based on the extensive investigation presented to this office by the Cochise County Sheriff's Department, as well as the physical evidence itself, we must come to the unfortunate but inescapable conclusion that this shooting was not legally justified," Mr. Rheinheimer said in a written statement.
Agent Corbett was never even interviewed by the investigators. How's that for fair and impartial justice?
The Arizona chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 11,000 of the agency's non-supervisory agents, said the Mexican Consulate in Douglas tainted the investigation by being allowed to interview some of the six witnesses to the shooting before U.S. investigators — an accusation denied by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office and the Mexican Consulate.
Agent Brandon Judd, vice president of Local 2544, called the decision to bring charges part of a nationwide pattern of politically motivated prosecutions against Border Patrol agents. He said the matching testimony of three of the witnesses had more to do with their blood ties and influence from the Mexican Consulate than with what actually happened.
So, no interview of the agent, but interviews of the illegal's, who were interviewed by the Mexian Consulate first. Fair and impartial? Due process? Why does it seem that the government is more invested in giving people good reasons not to join the Border Patrol while saying they want to increase its size?
Its no wonder that the Border Patrol held a vote of no confidence in their chief. Where was he in backing up Agent Corbett?
