A Texas trooper in a helicopter thought it would be a good idea to open fire on a pickup truck full of immigrants that were fleeing near the Mexican border close to San Antonio. The dumbass killed two people.
According to mysanantonio.com, the Texas Department of Public safety (ha!) has
"taken an aggressive role on the border in recent years, increasing the number of troopers there, deploying boats and dispatching helicopters with designated marksmen armed with powerful rifles.
As a result, the agency has been involved in a large number of high-speed chases — sometimes ending in what troopers call “splashdowns,” when smugglers drive their vehicles into the Rio Grande to escape U.S. law enforcement.
Cartel operatives on the Mexican side often use boats to try to recover contraband from the smugglers' trucks.
The agency's director has said it's been forced into the role because federal agencies aren't doing enough to secure the border and because smugglers have become more aggressive, resorting to splashdowns, using other vehicles to block pursuits and throwing homemade spikes at officers.
But their methods have been questioned, including decisions to shoot at fleeing vehicles from patrol cars and helicopters, a tactic eschewed by other law enforcement agencies."
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Trooper-in-copter-fires-on-vehicle-2-killed-3982867.php#ixzz2AQWaI74D
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