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The agent was in the process of trying to arrest someone. This "teenager" was trying to hit the police officer with a rock. The officer was well within his rights to defend himself.
I'm not the one you need to convince... the Mexican authorities are.
However, I am sure you are aware of the fact that US Agents are only authorized to return like force in such situations and they also have absolutely no authority in Mexico. Whether or not a "rock" thrown constitutes deadly force would be up to the courts to decide. A large rock might be considered deadly force, but if this was a stone then maybe there was excessive force used. Also, which court would have jurisdiction? In this case, it sounds to me like it would be the Mexican courts and trust me... if that is the case, I would not want to be this agent.
I'm not judging the agent. I don't know what happened there. I'm not saying whether or not he was justified in this shooting, but if I were him, I would stay out of Mexico until this has been settled.
Immie
A precedence has already been set for cases like this. In March of '07, an agent shot and killed a 20-year-old Mexican man whose arm was cocked back in Calexico, Calif., where rock attacks have soared in the last year. Two years ago, an agent fatally shot a rock thrower at the San Diego-Tijuana border.
No criminal charges were filed in either case.
Convince the Mexican authorities??? Why???