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Associated PressCoburn Seeks to Loosen Deadly Force RuleTuesday July 17, 2007 10:01 PM
By SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Border Patrol agents should be allowed
to shoot at fleeing drug traffickers, a Republican senator
suggested Tuesday.
The patrol's deadly force rules were questioned at a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing concerning the conviction of two
agents who shot a fleeing, unarmed drug trafficker and covered
it up.
“Why is it wrong to shoot the (trafficker) after he's been told
to stop?” asked Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of
Texas, said the Supreme Court has ruled that using deadly force
in that way is illegal. Agents also may not know if the fleeing
person is a trafficker, he said.
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