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“On Tuesday, a grand jury decided not to indict a Texas trooper who had killed two unarmed Guatemalan immigrants after shooting them from a helicopter last year. A police officer in a helicopter shot at a nonviolent suspect and killed two innocent men, and his actions were deemed defensible because the DPS gave him authority to do so.  Before he fell under intense scrutiny, McCraw had expressed no remorse for putting people on the ground in danger while using lethal force against a nonviolent suspect. A few months before the incident, he had told interviewers, ‘We’re really not apologetic about it. We’ve got an obligation to protect our men and women when we’re trying to protect Texas.’”

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14074/were-really-not-apologetic-dps-director-steve-mccraw-and-texas-airborne-snipers