U.S. Border Patrol Agents: The Border Patrol

Local Police Dept: U.S. Border Patrol agents and local police gave chase on foot from bushes to behind homes, then back to the fence, according to Montreal Gazette. The Oct. 10 shooting has prompted renewed outcry over the Border Patrol's use-of-force policies and angered human rights activists and Mexican officials who believe the incident has become part of a disturbing trend along the border gunning down rock-throwers rather than using non-lethal weapons and nOGALES, Ariz. - A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a fence in the middle of the night, slipped quietly into the United States and dashed into the darkness. The conflict escalated. Authorities say they were being pelted with rocks. One agent responded by aiming a gun into Mexico and firing multiple shots, killing a 16-year-old boy whose family says was in the wrong place at the wrong time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.