You said it all, and said it very well.
Obviously those cops were cowards. If they were real men, they would have taken the perp down with shiny new gas powered auger to the ass.
Those shades of grey usually give me all sorts of trouble too.
This wasn't one of those times. I've never worked for the Border Patrol but I did work for a sprawling state bureaucracy responsible for the lives and welfare of other humans for 2 decades so I can make a few comparisons.
1. When one is hired into a position of authority over other people they are obligated to behave MORE ethically at ALL times than the average person on the street. Period. No exceptions for bad hair days.
2. Persons such as these 2 officers are detrimental to the very organizations which employ them in ways I cannot even begin to count. Ethical conduct is a slippery slope, once broken it can become almost impossible to reverse course.
So that's it in a nutshell. Yes, by entering the country illegally a person is breaking the law, however they are NOT necessarily behaving "unethically" nor did they ever place themselves in a position requiring them to uphold any standards whatsoever. These officers did place themselves in such a position and then knowingly, with malice aforethought, broke the laws of their own organization AND behaved unethically.
They deserve their sentence.
Commenting by HaloScan
