PHOENIX NEW TIMES FILES ITS SECOND REPORT QUESTIONING A MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING OF PINAL COUNTY DEPUTY, WHO SAID HE WAS SHOT BY MEXICAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS WITH AK-47-TYPE WEAPONS IN THE DESERT NEAR PHOENIX. THE ALLEGED SHOOTERS, WHO WERE MOVING POT, ACCORDING TO THE DEPUTY, WERE NEVER FOUND, DESPITE A MASSIVE SEARCH. THE DEPUTY WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL THAT SAME NIGHT.
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Our thoughts & prayers go out to the Pinal County Deputy shot during a stop.Contrary to what some leaders say,our borders are not secure.6:13 PM Apr 30th via Tweetie –
A tweet by Governor Jan Brewer in the wake of the deputy shooting, one week after she signed controversial SB 1070.
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For those of you who don’t know me, I was a staff writer at Phoenix New Times for fourteen years. One of my colleagues, Paul Rubin, was and is the best crime reporter in Arizona. He is really well sourced. Cops trust him and tell him things they won’t tell anyone else.
So when Rubin filed a report that questioned the shooting of a Pinal County sheriff’s deputy just days after Gov. Jan Brewer signed the controversial SB 1070 immigration law, I took notice. He’s not the kind of reporter who shoots from the hip. He knows his business.
The killing of the border rancher has not been solved, even when the media jumped into the conclusion it was an illegal immigrant.
How convenient to have a dead rancher just at ground zero when Arizona is about to sign into the most invasive civil and human rights legislation.
It seems to me that there are people who want to distort reality to push a very scary agenda even though the facts demonstrate the contrary.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/03/21/20100321crimerate0322.html