Evil Empire? No. Unable to contemplate the moment? Yes.
One agent loses his cool, shoots -- hits a kid in the head. There are better ways to handle a situation like this. And the better way is how LAW ENFORCEMENT is supposed to handle it -- because they are police, not military. They are to PROTECT and SERVE, even if they are duty bound only to US citizens.
If rock throwing is a problem, wear a helmet -- honestly, I thought our agents were trained better than this. If not, then they should be. It should be as simple as that.
But reading the comments on the NPR story... ...everyone's perspective of this single incident is just fucked up.
If a single agent loses control of a situation and commits a homicide -- don't point fingers at politicians, drug lords, employers, Wall Street executives, and so on -- as if to say their mistakes justify the agent's mistakes. The agent had a job, and he couldn't do it, and someone died because of that. Deal out the punishment and fix the problem that led to the mistakes.
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One agent loses his cool, shoots -- hits a kid in the head. There are better ways to handle a situation like this. And the better way is how LAW ENFORCEMENT is supposed to handle it -- because they are police, not military. They are to PROTECT and SERVE, even if they are duty bound only to US citizens.
If rock throwing is a problem, wear a helmet -- honestly, I thought our agents were trained better than this. If not, then they should be. It should be as simple as that.
But reading the comments on the NPR story...
...everyone's perspective of this single incident is just fucked up.
If a single agent loses control of a situation and commits a homicide -- don't point fingers at politicians, drug lords, employers, Wall Street executives, and so on -- as if to say their mistakes justify the agent's mistakes. The agent had a job, and he couldn't do it, and someone died because of that. Deal out the punishment and fix the problem that led to the mistakes.
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