A police officer in Texas (I don't remember if it was a state trooper or a highway sheriff or whatever) pulls over a van because when he called in the license plate it came back as stolen. After approaching the van and speaking with the driver, the officer learns the van is full of illegal Mexicans. The driver of the van, knowing the would be deported back to Mexico, decides to make a run for it and takes off. The officer gets in his car, pursues and manages to get in front of the van. He speeds up and gets a ways in front of the van, he then turns his car and stops it blocking the road. For whatever reason the officer gets out of his car, stands between it and the van. The van continues driving towards him. He pulls out his gun, the van doesn't slow down. The officer fires a warning shot into the air, still the van doesn't slow down. Finally the officer shoots at the van, trying to blow a wheel. The van stops. The government now wants to put this officer in federal prison for up to 7 years because when he fired at the van, a fragment of the bullet richoted and hit one of the passengers - a woman. You hear this and you think, ok he killed her right? WRONG! The bullet fragment chips 2 of the woman's teeth and cuts her lip. Her laywer is claiming the officer violated her civil rights. This woman is not a citizen of the US, she entered the country illegally. This made her a criminal (as well as all of the others in the van), in my opinion the officer was not doing anything more than his job. Had this been a van full of bank robbers, or violent criminals would the government still want to put him in prison? What is your opinion on this?

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