FBI Under the Gun
Re “Agent Can Be Tried in Ruby Ridge Death,” June 6: So, Judge Michael D. Hawkins, in his written dissent on the Ruby Ridge ruling, is concerned that federal law enforcement agents “will hesitate in precisely those highly charged situations in which their quick judgment is most critical to the effective enforcement of our nation’s laws.”
An unarmed woman stands in a doorway holding a young child: If this evokes visions of a highly charged situation, then you understand his dissent and why FBI-trained sharpshooter Lon T. Horiuchi shot that woman in the middle of her forehead.
Personally, I don’t understand either decision.
Leonard J. Spale
Studio City
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