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I heard an interview with one of their wives on the radio. They wanted a commutation rather than a pardon, so that they can continue the appeals process to get the conviction thrown out. According to the wife being interviewed, a pardon is also an admission of guilt. You are saying “yes I did it,” and the pardoner is saying essentially, “you don’t deserve to be punished for it.” A commutation shortens the sentence but allows you to keep on appealing the case. So, eventually, if they win the appeal and get the conviction thrown out, they would be eligible to get their jobs back (if they wanted). A pardon also eliminates the ability to appeal.
Great news though.

Great news.

After 25 years in law enforcement, and involvement in any number of critical incidents, I can tell you one thing with utter confidence: If one of my fellow officers was ever in contact with an armed suspect, or pursuing an armed suspect, and I was responding as a cover unit, and they failed to announce to dispatch and to incoming cover units that the suspect was armed, we’d be going behind the shed for some meaningful dialogue that the remiss cop would never forget at the first opportunity.

These were two veteran cops who both failed to make any kind of notice of the suspect’s armed status during the incident. That wasn’t accidental.

They then failed to report having used deadly force. That wasn’t accidental.

They never advised anyone about the suspect being armed until a month later when they were brought up on charges. Then they suddenly remembered that he had been armed and they had just overlooked reporting it at the time. Why? Because, in fact, he wasn’t armed when they both shot at him and they both knew it.

The both used deadly force…. about the most “critical” thing a cop has the potential to do, and which the vast majority of police never actually at any time in their entire careers, and they both failed to notice it during or after the event until they were accused.

The fact that is that in the use of deadly force they didn’t follow procedure during the incident, nor did they follow procedure after the incident. These things are drilled and drilled and drilled into cops on minimally an annual basis, and all cops are extremely aware of the consequences for not doing so. You don’t use deadly force and not report it without risking really severe consequences. For two ten-year veteran cops to to make this “mistake” is a ridiculous notion. For two veteran cops to not notice it to dispatch or other cops during the event is also ludicrous. You don’t even think about it. When your adrenaline is flowing like it is in that kind of incident, you revert to your training. You don’t even think about the information you are putting out on the radio. You do it by rote. And seconds after it’s over you think heavily about whether or not you covered everything on the air that you needed to, both so you are not criticized professionally and so you are not charged with negligence, or criminal activity. As an individual cop you are very much “in the moment”, and the idea that these guys both just “screwed up” is be beyond ludicrous. In other words, there was clear collusion to cover up a crime, and cop who was ever actually in a critical incident will think back to it and realize I am entirely 100% right. With the adrenaline rush you get tunnel vision and you ability to focus becomes greatly enhanced. I remember minute details of critical incidents even twenty years after they happened. There is no way they could overlook the things they overlooked by accident.

This wasn’t a “mistake”, it was a crime, and the two veteran cops clearly conspired to commit it. Anybody who renders these guys any good will is slapping all the actually honest cops out there squarely in the face.

People keep bringing up the fact that the guy who was shot was a real dirt bag. That in no way mitigates what they did. They just figured because he was a drug runner, they wouldn’t get caught. If they had killed him, I have no doubt that nobody would have ever known anything about it, and the drugs he was bringing would have probably disappeared as well.

My sympathies are with Johnny Sutton, who has been pilloried in the media for “persecuting two cops just trying to do their job”, when in fact he prosecuted a couple of dirt bags who committed crime under color of authority. I have way too much love and respect for the badge and uniform to tolerate anyone using them as a prop for committing crime.

Most of you reading this will have a visceral reaction to what I’m saying, thinking that these are good public servants that the government has abused. Take a real look. Read the trial transcripts. See what is it is they actually did, and what they failed to do. If you’re not in the profession, ask a cop what the standards of training and responsibility for reporting are (I don’t care where you are in the US, they are going to be about the same in this area). You will reach the same conclusions I have.

Glad that these guys are back home with their families, where they belong.

You say you have based your opinins on your reading of the court transcript. To my knowledge, the entire court transcript has never been released, and what has was heavily redacted. Going by what you did read, you are saying that you believe a US bought and paid for drug runner over the 2 border patrol agents. Since the case was decided against Ramos and Compean, some of the jurors said if they knew the truth that the drug runner had been caught and arrested for running drugs again, while under US protection, they would not have found the agents guilty. If you kept up with the case over the 2 years, and read everything, I don’t think you would be saying Sutton was right. The agents are still going forward with their appeals to clear their names. I do believe much much more will come out, and the truth will be told, and it will not be pretty for all those that have been complicit in a cover up that goes way beyond any cover ups the agents are being accused of. I’m sorry for you that you have choosen to bury your head in the sand.

And I wish Scooter had been pardoned.

Those two acts would have helped bring a fuller justice to two politicized cases.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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