According to the Washington Times, the DEA's recent murder of a 14 year old girl is now under investigation:
Federal and state law-enforcement authorities are investigating the death of a 14-year-old Texas girl shot by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was part of a team seeking to arrest her father, who was suspected of dealing cocaine.
Ashley Villarreal died Feb. 11 at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio after being taken off life support at the request of family members. She was shot two days earlier by an unidentified DEA agent seeking to arrest her father, Joey Angel Villarreal, 36, who turned himself in Feb. 12 and was charged with drug trafficking.
I doubt that anything serious will happen to the agent involved. Shootings like these are seldom punished as they serve the Drug Warriors well. Nothing works better than a little intimidation and murder to get your point across. Of course, the agent involved identified himself as DEA only after he shot Ashley.
What the hell is wrong with us ? Allowing these thugs to carry on like this. Of course they will get away with it, it is high time that something was done. Americans, WAKE UP to reality of whats going on with the DEA and the Bush administration.
4/12/2003 9:52:00
I don’t feel that this is the work of the Bush Administration. Indeed this is the work of a “law enforcement officer” who is doing his job. This individual, when taking his job gained the attitude of “I am above the written law” Therefore ANYTHING he does in the line of duty is unpunishable by law. He will never serve a day. I feel that ANY law enforcement official should be held to a higher responsibility in regards to breaking the law. Not excused for “doing his job” This not only should be the case for the “godlike” law enforcement officers, but also for judges, polititions, ect. The civilians of the United States should rise up and demand that justice be done. Let some of these “officers” spend some time in prison. Then we will see a lot of “officers” change their attitude.
4/17/2003 2:21:00 AM
Although it is sad she’s dead and we don’t like the current administration, we have to look at what is known about the situation before starting off on a tangent about how this is a conspiracy concoted by some shadowy figures to use “a little intimidation and murder” to create a police state where they take the rights away from average citizens. This could genuinely be a freak accident. Then again, it seems like a situation that could’ve been avoided had there been some responsible sober adults around.
1. She was 14 years old. The legal driving age for the state of Texas is 16 (though a learner’s permit can be obtained at 15). Why was she driving a car? If she was only interested in taking an innocent bystander home, why was she driving with no lights on at high speeds? That’s not safe for the person she’s trying to safely return home or the public at large.
“After his release, authorities said the DEA received information he was about to flee to Mexico and agents set up the surveillance operation.”
When a car with an unidentified person in it takes off from a home under surveilance and the person being watched is planning to jump the border, it’s more than just -slightly- suspicious.
2. She hit two parked cars and continued driving. Obviously she didn’t care she’d hit two cars, otherwise she would have turned her lights on and slowed her speed. Officers are allowed to fire if they feel their lives are in danger, so it’s rational for the officer to open fire if she was backing up in such a manner that he thought he might be run over. If she didn’t care about the cars (that could have people in them), chances are pretty good that she wouldn’t care about an undercover officer.
3. He was wrong for not identifying herself (if that’s indeed how it happened), but again, she didn’t care about parked cars, so what was a DEA officer asking her to stop going to mean to her? Do we really know that he didn’t identify himself, especially when one considers the “witness” was drunk?
“The girl’s relatives told police she panicked when confronted by the agents.”
Problem A: If there was only one person in the car (the drunk), how could her relatives know she panicked?
For them to have seen her panic, they had to have been outside or looking through a window, which means they knew the agents were looking for her father, which means they were obstructing justice instead of having him turn himself in to avoid a big scene.
Also, why weren’t these “relatives” that saw the whole thing go down driving the drunk guy home instead of sending a minor with no license to do it?
Problem B: If they confronted her, they had to identify themselves as agents for her to panic, as I’m sure the drunk would’ve tried to stop the agents if he felt they were a threat to their safety (like carjackers or something).
I’m not saying what happened was right. I just think it’s a little unfair for people to sit back and try to blame it all on the officer when it wasn’t just his decisions that caused this incident to happen the way it did.
4/19/2003 2:28:00 AM
funny you never mention how many people janet reno and bill clinton had killed just because they knew what no one else did about that administration.
http://prorev.com/wwstats.htm
knows better: It’s interesting that you expect me to comment on Clinton in a posting that’s about a specific episode in the Drug War. Am I under some obligation to mention him in every posting? I must have missed that legislative session. Why on earth should I be expected to add irrelevant information to this posting?
Clinton’s illegal activities have nothing to do with the specific story mentioned in my posting. Apparently it’s too hard for you to understand that with your fake url and fake email address.
BTW, your silly fake email address “everyoneknowsaboutliberal@liberalsaremorons.com” indicates your true motive, castigating anyone who doesn’t toe that party line as a liberal. For the record, since you are obviously politically challenged, not everyone who disagrees with you is a liberal. Maybe you’re the moron.
Did Clinton’s policies and Administration kill people? Yes. Does it have anything to do with this particular story? No.
Now go back to your ditto head club gatherings and leave the politics to the grownups.
okay, so they had that house wired and bugged and probally vid. survellence and they could’nt blow their cover just to stop the girl from getting in the car? so basically these cops will ignore a potencial danger(unlisenced inexperinced driver) just to make a bust on a “suspected” coke dealer.
And if they knew that the guy was probally gonna flee to Mexico they should of used one of their inexpensive GPS tracking devices(which the DEA has litteraly thousands of) on his car and just track him on his way there and bust him at the border insted of taking lives
WAIT you havent been told the facts.. her father was on probation, nothing was found, no drugs no weapons, the DEA RAMMED the car ASHLEY was in, they opened fire. why? we will never know…after shooting ASHLEY they went to her GRAndmothers house and searched it without a warrant, found NOTHING, this WAS MURDER. THEY destroyed the lives OF an AMERICAN FAMILY. In our COuntry, they killed an innocent AMERICAN child.
funny what people can get away with under protection of a badge and government agency isn’t it?
justice oh justice where do you hide? a childs blood calls out from the ground,do the centurians assume blame? no? they but resume the gaurd. they have been set upon the people by our appointed keepers. now they are a power unto themselves, apart, seperated by the fear and the fear. do not weep for this broken child, do not look to cast blame as all turn away. there is a G-d. and HaShem is the keeper of justice, for blame can be laid only by the knower of the heart, we each share a seperate blame, and so there exist forgivness and pity.
8/29/2003 8:37:00
There is no excuse for the ineptness and cowardice displayed by the DEA in this matter. Regardless of whether the car hit another car or not. THEY KNEW THERE WAS A CHILD IN THE CAR AND THEY KNEW SHE WAS DRIVING!!!!! Shooting her was unforgivable! They had no cause to place an innocent child in danger to arrest a “possible” small time coke dealer!
The arrest was reckless and poorly executed, period!
The responsible paties are guilty of manslaughter, period!
I doubt any work was done to determine which weapon was the killing weapon, so nobody will likely fry for this.
Everyone who fired a weapon in this arrest should be charged with reckless endangerment and attempted murder!
5/19/2004 6:16:00
This is total bull shit she was only 14 she had no reason to die. I hope the DEA is punished, but shit there are no chances of that happening, have you ever heard of justice in the USA? All I know if I was any of the relatives of this child I would want the WORST POSSIBLE PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE DEA SONS OF BITCHS!!!
P.S. If there is a God hopefully he will see how wrong this was and make the bastards burn in hell! FUCK THIS STUPID DRUG WAR ANYWAY!
This is total bullshit she was a young innocent girl who had no right to die. If they were after the father why in the fuck would they follow her was the father there……NO well shit they must be the most stupit mother fuckers on this planet. IF it were up to me they would all recieve a shots to there heads, and of course there is no justice that will be recieved to probably the most upset family in the world. After reading this I have no idea how much anger and pain they are probably experiencing and the DEA will never have any idea as well.
I HOPE THOSE FUCKING FAGGIT DEA OFFICERS BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY! This is more than unforgivable its not even rational. Just another reason to hate this fucked up country. Fuck the stupit fucking drug war anyway we are making shitty progress!!!
P.S. My deepest regrets to the family or any other family that has experienced something similar.
DC needs to pull his/her head out of his/her ass. what does it matter that she was 14. what does it matter that the witness was drunk. what does it matter if the girl was driving recklessly. cars are cars; she was 14 do you really think she would run down a person. how is the family supposed to know that federal agents are staking out their house. i don’t think you even know the particulars about this case. it is the whole departments fault for what happened. nobody is disputing that. but the officer should have known there was a kid in the car seeing as how they were watching the house and all.