Border Patrol Agent Fires At Armed Militia Member Near Rio Grande

In this Aug. 9, 2014 photo, the main canal supplying water to the city of Mission, Texas is shown. At this spot on the night of Aug. 6, 2014, Border Patrol agents arresting immigrants mistook seven armed militia memb... In this Aug. 9, 2014 photo, the main canal supplying water to the city of Mission, Texas is shown. At this spot on the night of Aug. 6, 2014, Border Patrol agents arresting immigrants mistook seven armed militia members for state troopers. The presence of armed militia members working on their own in a region known for human smuggling, drug smuggling and illegal immigration has added one more variable to an already complex and tense situation. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman) MORE LESS
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A border patrol agent fired several shots at an armed militia member while chasing a group of immigrants Friday near Brownsville, Texas.

Border Patrol Spokesman Omar Zamora told the Associated Press that agents were pursuing a group of immigrants when one agent spotted a man holding a gun near the Rio Grande.

The agent fired four shots but did not hit the man, Zamora said. The man then dropped his weapon and identified himself as a militia member.

The unidentified man was not arrested and appeared to have permission to be on private property where the incident occurred, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio told the AP. Lucio, whose agency is involved in investigating the incident, said the man was wearing camouflage and was carrying either a rifle or shotgun.

The sheriff said militias really aren’t needed at the Texas-Mexico border given the number of law enforcement agencies already working to secure the area.

“It just creates a problem from my point of view, because we don’t know who they are,” Lucio told the AP.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said it does not “endorse or support any private group or organization from taking matters into their own hands as it could have disastrous personal and public safety consequences.”

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  1. Maybe the chance of getting their lard-assed metal-death-penis’d camo’d heads blown off will keep the militia fantasists at home. Either that, or having to walk more than a couple of hundred meters.

  2. The sheriff said militias really aren’t needed at the Texas-Mexico border given the number of law enforcement agencies already working to secure the area.

    Not needed, not wanted.

    Go home you pencil dicked punks.

  3. Wait a second. Why didn’t the militia member stand his ground? Maybe strike a blow against government over-reach?

    This is so confusing sometimes…

  4. Yeah Pop a cap in a militia members A$$ he’ll soon get the hint he’s not needed or wanted !

  5. Oh, men and their toys!

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