Charles Spencer King

I'm the first guy to laud the efforts of the US Border patrol and Customs and Immigration officers. Having said that, I also was saddened to see the men and women in green take over the main entry to Mexico on Grand avenue, from the men and  women in blue. CBP is in green and Customs and Immigration in dark blue. It was not only the fact that I have friendly relations with the blue team over the last ten years of multiple daily crossings, it was more. I like most residents have seen the green team often take liberties that leave me wondering. This can be as simple as speeding without their lights, to dangerously running red lights without their sirens or lights active. Driving one handed while on the cell phone is another, that I find dangerous, indeed many residents are guilty of this too, but I feel agents should lead, rather than follow in safety. I also have noted that the green teams do not seem to have the people skills the blue teams display regularly, yet perhaps this is training. I suppose I'd simply say that I am not biased against the green teams, I simply do not not hold them in the same high esteem as I do the men and women in blue. I realize they have a tough and sometimes dangerous job, but like the military, this is a job they sought out, they were not drafted to and therefore must be held 100% accountable for their actions.







When I read the reports in Spanish and English several question leap to my analysis: 1) How exactly did the boys get back over the massive wall to Mexico? The reports say all this was witnessed, and as I see it (based on the report) one can't  exactly "flee" back to Mexico when faced with a substantial wall, unless of course they built a massive ramp, dug a tunnel under the concrete foundation, used an acetylene torch to cut a hole, or set a new pole vault record. 2) Why was the boy shot on the Mexican side? Twelve bullet holes in a wall behind him? Logic seems to tell me that anytime there is gun fire, anyone throwing rocks "flees" rather than stays to face a bullet, so why not fire over his head? 3) He was shot eight times? In the back an head? This is troubling to say the least. 4) This location I know well, it has the new style of wall, and therefore should be all the more difficult to breech. 5) Because of the proximity to the main gate (a mere three blocks south), I believe this abuts the US government's own parking lot, so it seems odd ( to say the least why drug smugglers would be operating so close to the main gate, that is guarded vigorously.

I have just returned from the physical site. The evidence gets worse. There is a 50 foot hill that rises above the site with the new wall rising from the top of the hill. Why this is negative is in order to shoot the boy, CBP agents would have had their noses against the wall on the US side, shooting down on the victim, this mean a random shot from a substantial distance from the wall on the US side could not have killed the boy. Eye witnesses state that four boys arrived on the scene and began throwing rocks. This is also difficult
to swallow as all four would have had to scale the hill, furthermore the fence though it does have slits would have protected the officers. Additionally Nolan Ryan throwing rocks from the street level where the boy was killed could not have hit an officer. The boy would have had to negotiate not just the 20 ft wall but the 50 ft steep hill to return to the street, cross it, and finally be shot. Finally, on the US side the hill is no mean task to climb either.