3 dead after Border Patrol uses Grappler
to stop fleeing vehicle
Washington Times,
by
Stephen Dinan
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/11/2021 4:22:43 PM
Three people died and eight others were injured over the weekend after their vehicle fled from the Border Patrol on a lengthy chase across southern Arizona and agents deployed a Grappler System on the interstate to try to immobilize the vehicle and end the pursuit. The fleeing Jeep Liberty careened across the interstate into oncoming traffic, crashed into a tractor-trailer and bounced back into the median, where it caught fire.
All 11 people in the vehicle were either dead or required hospitalization. A Liberty’s seating capacity is supposed to be five. The deaths add to a growing string of fatalities in the border surge that began under President Biden
11 stuffed in a vehicle that holds 5. And now dead and burnt. Our border policy is so much better now than when Trump was preventing them from crossing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/11/2021 4:46:23 PM (No. 875598)
Cartels are making $4000each on average, that is $50Million per month...MORE than any recent Marvel Movie makes, and they spend years making each of those.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Osprey21 8/11/2021 4:53:15 PM (No. 875604)
I couldn't care less - mine the border, shoot to kill.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 8/11/2021 4:59:52 PM (No. 875612)
Yes - I too had to ask "what is a grappler?". Here's one in action.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/5843/the-grappler-police-bumper-is-made-to-end-chases-by-lassoing-cars
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/11/2021 5:05:33 PM (No. 875616)
A well-placed laser-guided missile hit would have worked perfectly. That way they would have all been vaporized and incinerated, thus saving a lot of expensive hospital bills and social security benefits for the survivors. But that's being a bit sarcastic and really not funny. All part of the growing string of fatalities on the border. No matter what the number of border fatalities is nothing compared to a good weekend in Chicago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/11/2021 5:07:33 PM (No. 875619)
Zero sympathy. Our district here in Tennessee is being over run with illegals. Our school population of new - CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH - illegals has grown by 50% and is projected to double by next year.
We are Rome.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 8/11/2021 5:12:26 PM (No. 875623)
Joe "Dementia" Biden referring to Kamala "Heels Up" Harris
Updated: August 12, 2021 12:47 am IST
"One year ago today, I made one of the most important decisions I've ever made: selecting my vice president. I couldn't have asked for a better partner and friend on this journey. Thanks @VP for all you do," Biden tweeted.
August 09, 2021
"U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas will travel to South Texas on Thursday, August 12."
Kamala "Heels Up" Harris, will you be there?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 8/11/2021 5:24:49 PM (No. 875638)
Hunter’s dad has more blood on his hands
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/11/2021 5:31:18 PM (No. 875648)
So what's the problem? Don't like this? Then STAY HOME.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ScooterTrash 8/11/2021 5:36:10 PM (No. 875656)
Can you guess what I don't give...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bill O Rights 8/11/2021 5:40:24 PM (No. 875663)
I am surprised they were authorized to give pursuit, much less attempt to stop them. I am sure that is the last time it will be allowed.
The only reason I can think of to run is that the driver was a cartel member coyote, that may also have had some drugs on board. Do we even prosecute coyotes? Wouldn't they be considered travel agents.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/11/2021 6:37:46 PM (No. 875738)
Where the hell exactly were they running to ? Back to Mexico?
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I'm with you, #5. Bring out the A-10s. We are under attack through our southern border by millions of diseased invaders. Either put the damn wall up, or start strafing them 20 miles inside Mexico. Announce a free-fire zone at that depth, and inform Mexico to keep their citizens the hell out of the area. They knew to stop them at the border to Central America under Trump. Now they run them through as fast as possible because Xiden is such a mewling pussy they know he won't do anything about it.
Are we a sovereign nation, or are we not? Do we have the right to protect our borders, and to expect our government to do so?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TLCary 8/11/2021 7:06:31 PM (No. 875763)
NO. The headline is BS. A grappler doesn't cause a car to careen across the interstate and into oncoming traffic. A grappler stops the car. Police attempted but didn't get a chance to engage a grappler because the DRIVER drove across the interstate and into oncoming traffic. The headline puts the blame on the police using a device that stops cars. That's absurd, as usual.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 8/11/2021 7:23:17 PM (No. 875776)
IMHO the Southern border is hosting an invasion of illegal aliens and should be dealt with as such. If you want to invade our country then you have to accept the consequences. If I enter another country without the proper authorization then I will be arrested and put in jail. If I run they will pursue and apprehend me. If I run that is my choice not the pursuers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
KTWO 8/11/2021 7:24:03 PM (No. 875777)
Odd. But at least no one in the other vehicle got hurt. Several questions come to mind.
How far did they actually chase the Jeep? And how far could the Jeep go before running out of gas? At very high speed it would get low MPG.
And, as someone asked, why flee? Was something besides illegals in that Jeep? Drugs? A large amount of money? A hunted criminal?
But why over think the incident. Maybe the driver just guessed wrong and thought he could escape.
Thanks #14,
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 8/11/2021 7:56:08 PM (No. 875793)
A JEEP Liberty isn't really a jeep, anyway....serves them right....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/11/2021 8:45:48 PM (No. 875842)
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLLY AVOIDED.....If they would not have illegally entered the country and tried to evade the Border patrol. While all loss of life is terrible, these people killed themselves while committing a crime. Pretty sure the Biden administration will now have some sort of moratorium on chasing fleeing illegal migrants so they don't get hurt.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/11/2021 9:45:26 PM (No. 875887)
I do have some sympathy for the illegals rushing in to sign up for an easier government supported life. I can see that desire but open borders will completely destroy this country. My policy would be cruel....send them all back or shoot to kill. A few machine gunned at the border would put a stop to this invasion.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/11/2021 10:49:57 PM (No. 875938)
An M249 SAW mounted up top would do a cleaner and faster job of stopping a vehicle. Why endanger other people on the highway when one burst into the left side door would do the job?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Penney 8/11/2021 11:45:22 PM (No. 875966)
Biden just doesn't care about human lives no matter which side of the border. He shirks his duty and does not pause to examine the results of his irresponsible policies.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 8/12/2021 2:39:26 AM (No. 876037)
Thanks for the link #4. Interesting video.
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