Originally published January 24 2006
Newsletter claims air marshals lied about shooting a mentally ill passenger
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to La Voz De Aztlan News Bulletin, the air marshals who shot Rigoberto Alpizar, a mentally ill passenger, lied about Alpizar when they told the media he claimed to have a bomb in his bag.
It now appears that Air Marshals lied about a mentally ill Latino passenger saying "I have a bomb" just before they shot him at the Miami International Airport yesterday.
The fact is Air Marshals over-reacted when dealing with a Middle Eastern looking passenger who was experiencing a "fear of flying" panic attack.
The victim, Mr. Rigoberto Alpizar, according to his accompanying wife, is a bi-polar patient who ran out of his medications during their trip.
While waiting for the airplane to take off on the next leg of the American Airline flight, Mr. Alpizar panicked and wanted to get off the airplane.
He started to run down the isle towards the door when two Air Marshals confronted him.
Instead of subduing him physically, they went for their guns and shot him five or six times.
Witnesses interviewed after the shooting described instead how Alpizar's wife tried to tell fellow passengers and Air Marshals that her husband suffered from bi-polar disorder.
Mr. McAlhany adds, "They put a gun to the back of my head and said: 'Put your hands on the seat'.
That was more scary than anything else," passenger John McAlhany said.
There have now been numerous abuses of Arabs, Blacks and Latinos by Air Marshals but none have ended in a shooting tragedy.
The fact is that people of color are in more danger from White, usually veterans of the Iraq War, Air Marshals than from actual terrorists.
Many of the Air Marshals, some who are mentally unstable themselves because of war experiences, have been trained to shoot first and ask questions later.
Under these circumstance, Latinos, Middle Easterners and other people of color are in dire danger when flying as passengers on American airlines.
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