(Jackbooted thugs are thugs on duty and off duty.)
(Criminals to the left and Feds to the right, you are in a fix,
America.)
Source: CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
Secret Service agents brawl outside bar
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/03/agents.brawl.reut/index.html
March 3, 2002
ENCINITAS, California (Reuters) -- Four off-duty U.S. Secret
Service agents fought a crowd of locals in a San Diego area bar brawl on
the day Vice President Dick Cheney began his four-day California tour, an
agency spokesman confirmed Saturday.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Saturday that an agent bit off the
tip of a man's ear in a fight outside the Daley Double bar.
The fracas involved about 15 locals, and was
triggered by agents making "rude comments" to a local
woman, the newspaper reported.
Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin told Reuters the agents defended
themselves in an incident that occurred at about 2 a.m. PST on
February 18.
"Initially two Secret Service agents were assaulted near their
vehicle by a group of men after they left a nightclub in Encinitas,
California," Mackin said. "Then two additional agents
came to their aid."
The Secret Service does not discuss agent assignments, and Mackin would
not say whether the men had been guarding Cheney, who was in the region
that day, or give details of the scuffle.
The Union-Tribune, which said the incident happened a day later, on the
morning of February 19, quoted a sheriff's detective as saying one agent
had his nose broken and may lose his front teeth, although he could not
say who started it.
"It was just a bad scenario," the Union-Tribune quoted
Detective Sergeant Ron Morse as saying. "There was alcohol
involved and (the agents) got caught up in something and they just tried
to get out of it."
The agents never said they were from the Secret Service or drew their
weapons, and they left the scene before detectives arrived, he
added. Detectives interviewed them later at their hotel.
The sheriff's office kept the incident secret for "sensitivity"
reasons and did not arrest anyone, and the agents confirmed their work
was related to Cheney's visit, he said.
Shannon Larson, 24, told the newspaper three agents made "rude
comments" to her in the bar. After it closed, one of the
agents invited her to a hot-tub party, an offer Larson said she
declined.
Her acquaintance, Zachery Elson, 21, told the newspaper
he confronted the agent, who grabbed his shirt, bit
off the tip of his ear, and wrestled him to the ground.
The agent told detectives that he had bit Elson's ear during the
tussle when he felt a tug on the gun strapped to his side.
The agents had gone off duty at 11 p.m. on the 18th after Cheney's
visit to the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, Morse said.
The sheriff's department Saturday said no detectives were available to
discuss the matter.
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-InfoWarz
"If you aren't outraged, you are not
paying attention."
"Federal Jackbooted Thugs:
If they aren't shooting you or your children, or burning your church
down, or stealing your property and guns, they are busy biting your
friggin' ears off.
WAKE the HELL up America!"
