The families of two people killed with guns stolen from federal agents are seeking to hold those agencies accountable for the crimes committed with their weapons.
The family of Antonio Ramos, a 27-year-old artist shot and killed while painting an anti-violence mural in Oakland last year, filed a complaint against U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement on Thursday because the gun used in the shooting was stolen days earlier from an ICE agent’s car.
The law firm representing the Ramos family — Burlingame-based Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy — also filed a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of the family of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, a woman shot and killed in
San Francisco last summer with a weapon stolen from a federal Bureau of Land Management agent’s car...more
Still no word on what that BLM agent was doing in San Francisco. See our previous questions on this here and here.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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