http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/ ... -gunpoint/A Boy Scout troop from the nation’s heartland is demanding answers and a U.S. senator is expressing outrage after a group of scouts was detained by Border Patrol agents and one child allegedly was held at gunpoint.
As their vans were moving through a checkpoint into the United States, one of the scouts snapped a photograph. Agents stopped the van and ordered all the passengers to get out. They told the underage photographer that he had committed a federal crime.
“The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and ten years in prison,” Fox told Des Moines television station KCCI.
During the search, one of the scouts tried to retrieve a bag from the roof carrier. When he turned around, Fox said a border guard had a loaded pistol pointed at the child.
“He heard a snap of the holster, turns around, and here’s this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man’s head,” Fox told the television station.
Now understand that the boy scouts were in uniform and not being unruly. Perhaps next time the scouts should try and sneak in as I suspect they will have a lot less hassle doing so.
Speak about being absolutely clueless.They also wanted to know why the Boy Scouts were hauling “excessive amounts of lighters, matches and knives.”
