Texas bans shooting immigrants from helicopters

[robert l. bentham]

Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be allowed to open fire on suspects from helicopters after the recent killing of two immigrants.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/22/texas-bans-shooting-immigrants-from-helicopters/

back to hunting them from trucks... until they ban that too... then itll be back to the old school ways of slather urself up with their urine (so they can't smell ya coming) and stalking them on trails...

 

[cecilia]

that's no fun

 

[Glaucus]

I guess I'll have to cancel my hunting trip then.

 

[faethor]

Why would the immigrants be flying around in helicopters?

 

[metalman]

They fired at the truck, in an attempt to disable it, which was fleeing at a high rate of speed from other police units, trying to stop it before crashed into to other traffic on the roadway. The truck crashed, and the two of the nine hiding under a blanket in the back were shot, who then died when the vehicle crashed. The policy has been changed so that vehicles will not be shot at from the air, unless there are people in the vehicle who are shooting.

DPS asks FBI to scrutinize helicopter shooting

The driver is believed to be a 14-year-old Mexican national. Border Patrol agents apprehended him in the hours after the chase, but juvenile authorities released him to a grandparent, he has since gone missing.

New policy is to just chase the vehicle until it crashes. Usually about one of those chases happens every week. A Mexican juvenile driver is typical too. Usually someone dies, almost always someone who was thrown from the back of a pickup.

Usually some innocent driver of some small car dies

when a detective told Torres, "You killed a 20-year-old," that Torres replied, "Well, better him than me."

 

[metalman]

I guess I'll have to cancel my hunting trip then.

As fun as hunting from helicopters is in Texas, helicopter time is not cheap!

During the two-day shoot, we fired approximately 5,000 rounds

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[robert l. bentham]

5000 rounds

550 hogs were shot... lol... they shoot like big city police... throw enough lead out and something will fall down....

 

[robert l. bentham]

They fired at the truck, in an attempt to disable it, which was fleeing at a high rate of speed from other police units, trying to stop it before crashed into to other traffic on the roadway. The truck crashed, and the two of the nine hiding under a blanket in the back were shot, who then died when the vehicle crashed. The policy has been changed so that vehicles will not be shot at from the air, unless there are people in the vehicle who are shooting.

DPS asks FBI to scrutinize helicopter shooting



New policy is to just chase the vehicle until it crashes. Usually about one of those chases happens every week. A Mexican juvenile driver is typical too. Usually someone dies, almost always someone who was thrown from the back of a pickup.

Usually some innocent driver of some small car dies

thatd be fine except the original article says that incident had nothing to do with the policy change...