Border Patrol agents hold Iowa Boy Scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/22/border-patrol-agents-hold-iowa-boy-scouts-at-gunpoint-for-taking-a-picture-of-them/



Border Patrol agents hold Iowa Boy Scouts at gunpoint for taking a picture of them
By Arturo Garcia
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 21:23 EDT

A Border Patrol agent allegedly held a member of an Iowa Boy Scout troop at gunpoint while another threatened another boy with arrest and a 10-year prison term for taking a picture of him, KCCI-TV reported.

The incident reportedly took place while members of Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111 and volunteers traveling with them were attempting to drive through the border between Canada into Alaska. Troop leader Jim Fox told KCCI that the group was detained and searched after the scout took the picture. The agent allegedly told Fox that the scout had committed a federal offense.

“The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox was quoted as saying.

Fox and his troop complied with the agent’s order, but as another scout was unloading luggage from one of the group’s vans, “He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here’s this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man’s head.”

[riversedge]

1. Is there any common

sense in America anymore?? Good grief!!

[liberal N proud]

2. Sounds like the glorified security guards were on a power trip

[bemildred]

3. These power-mad dumb asses need to be fired, and promptly too. nt

[Downwinder]

4. Welcome to Iraq.

[frylock]

5. chinga la migra