And the way the Mexican government is playing coy with this story indicates that this shooting was not up to snuff. From CNN:
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — A U.S. citizen was shot to death Sunday in a confrontation with the Mexican military at a checkpoint in Guerrero state, U.S. and Mexican officials said Monday.
U.S. officials said they have received conflicting reports as to whether Joseph Steven Proctor, 32, fired at the Mexican military first.
Proctor died, the U.S. State Department said, when he either tried to drive through the roadblock and the military shot at him or he opened fire as he drove through the checkpoint and soldiers shot back.
Here’s where the story starts to fall apart. He either shot at them or tried to run a roadblock? How about he didn’t bother paying a bribe and got shot. I’m no Sherlock Holmes but when people are telling two different versions of events that lead up to someone getting shot to death, I get suspicious. But there’s more:
A spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said local officials were investigating the circumstances of Proctor’s death, “which are still unclear.”
Rodolfo Gomez Fernandez, an official with the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office, said “it appeared to be true” that Proctor had been shot by the Mexican military.
This is the real tell. Mexican officials are non-committal about what happened and U.S. Embassy officials are still not sure what happened, but if the military was acting appropriately and professionally they would have detailed reports of the incident. Obviously since there’s still a question of whether this guy even shot at them they do not. That, my dear CNN “reporters” means there’s more to this story.
Proctor’s body was found around 2 a.m. Sunday inside a red pickup truck on the federal Acapulco-Zihuatanejo highway near the town of Cerrito de Oro, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
The state of Guerrero, on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, is home to Acapulco, a popular tourist destination.
Proctor’s body should have been right where the military left it when they ventilated him. But this could be bad writing. The fact that this is near Acapulco makes me think Procter was partying, maybe drunk, ran into some bad seeds who wanted something from him and when he got belligerent with them he got killed.
When will Americans learn to stay out of Mexico? People are willing to break the law to get out of there, which should tell you something.
h/t N.T.A.
This has gone too far we have violence spilling over to the us side of the border cartels trying to take over the us and now tourist are being killed by Mexican army the bottom line is us needs a full out war with mexico we need to look for the drug lords cartels and put an end to it before this really gets out of hand. mexico is a disgrace to humanity.
All I see from this report is the efforts to stir up racism and prejudice. The US Government takes weeks, months, and sometimes years to get the facts straight when someone is shot by “friendly fire” in our military. So, from a report that the man may have been beligerant, “partying” (you state), possibly shooting at them or trying to run a roadblock and you get total conjecture of a bribe and a cover up. No wonder there is so much hatred and distrust in the world when people have preconceived notions that they take as fact, embellish, and then report as true. Scary world we live in and I am not talking about the Mexican military.