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Once again an American law officer has been sent to jail for doing his job!

A former deputy sheriff who said he fired shots at a sport utility vehicle after the driver tried to run him down was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Del Rio, Texas, to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay $5,347 in damages to an illegal alien injured in the incident.

U.S. District Judge Robert T. Dawson also ordered Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez to serve three years supervised probation and to pay an additional $5,000 fine.

Hernandez, 25, has been held without bail since his Dec. 1 conviction on charges of violating “under the color of law” the civil rights of Maricela Rodriguez-Garcia. The woman, a Mexican national, was being smuggled into the United States when she was struck in the lip by metal fragments after an 11:50 p.m. traffic stop in Rocksprings, Texas, in April 2005. [Emphasis mine]

Hernandez told investigators and Edwards County Sheriff Donald G. Letsinger that the driver of the vehicle tried to run him down after he stopped him for running a red light. He said as he approached the vehicle on foot, he spotted at least eight persons lying down inside it. He said he fired shots at its rear tires as it sped off. [Emphasis mine]

Sheriff Letsinger has questioned why U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton — who last year also convicted two U.S. Border Patrol agents who shot a drug-smuggling suspect as he fled back into Mexico — ever brought charges. The sheriff said Hernandez “followed the letter of the law” in defending himself in the incident. [Emphasis mine]

But in a statement, Mr. Sutton said a jury of 12 Texans heard the evidence and unanimously found Hernandez guilty of using unreasonable and unlawful deadly force when he repeatedly fired into the back of a fleeing vehicle he knew was loaded with people and not a threat to him.

“In America, we admire our law-enforcement officers for their courage and dedication,” he said. “However, police officers are not above the law they enforce.”

Johnny Sutton should have headed the firing list of US Attorneys. He is a disgrace to the American justice system, as he systematically grants immunity to people who have come to this country illegally and then claims the law officers have “violated their civil rights.” How about my civil rights and yours? We’re at least legally born or naturalized citizens of this country. Tonto and I are members of the first Americans.

The truck tried to run over the deputy and he shot at the tires, not at anyone in the truck.

I can’t wait for a new president so this piece of scum will finally be out of power in his little fiefdom in Texas.

Written by Jeanette

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