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Drug Smuggler Walks; Border Agent Goes to Jail | The Silent Majority

This story causes such a visceral reaction that it is hard to be objective. After 14 years of service as a police officer I have come to a conclusion:

Despite hundreds of hours of training, rigorous state and federal certification requirements, exhaustive background investigations, drug tests, polygraphs and psychological evaluations required to be a law enforcement officer, the word of a drug smuggler is still given more credence.

The following excerpts are from a story that appeared on the Washington Times website:

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been sentenced to two years in prison for improperly lifting the arms of a 15-year-old drug smuggling suspect while handcuffed — in what the Justice Department called a deprivation of the teenager’s constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force.
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Defense attorneys argued that there were no injuries or bruises on the suspected smuggler’s lower arms where the handcuffs had been placed nor any bruising resulting from an alleged knee on his back. Photos showed the only marks on his body came from the straps of the pack he carried containing the suspected drugs, they said.
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The allegations against Diaz, 31, a seven-year veteran of the Border Patrol, initially were investigated by Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which cleared the agent of any wrongdoing.
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In a statement, the council said that because the arrest took place at about 2 a.m., darkness would have made it impossible for the government’s witnesses to have seen whether any mistreatment took place. It said Marcos Ramos, the Border Patrol agent who stood next to Diaz, testified that he did not see any mistreatment of the smuggling suspect.
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The council said other witnesses made contradictory claims and some later admitted to having perjured themselves. Such admissions, the council said, were ignored by the court and the government. It also said that probationary agents who claimed to have witnessed the assault raised no objections during the incident and failed to notify an on-duty supervisor until hours later.
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The council also noted that the teenager claimed no injuries in court other than sore shoulders, which the council attributed to “the weight of the drug load, approximately 75 pounds, he carried across the border.”

Evidently there were wo mules involved since 150 lbs
of mariageyouwanna was recovered from the scene.

Where is the incentive to interdict drug runners if
you stand the chance of spending two years in
prison on frivilous charges if you catch someone
who will be allowed to go free????

And don't let the age of the real criminal in this scenario fool you, underage kids are rutinely recruited by the cartels, recently another 15 year old (a rather notorious one) admitted to several murders, under Mexican law he cannot be prosecuted as an adult and will be released in less than three years when he reaches the age of 18, free to do whatever he wants.

Eric Holder is a treasonous scoundrel as is practically
every Obama appointee now in office.