At Least 13 Mexican Police Officers Killed In Ambush

By Tom Knighton

The last thing the United States should want to see is violence in a neighboring nation like Mexico. After all, far too often, that violence doesn’t stay in that country and could easily find its way up across the border and plague American cities.

However, Mexico is a violent place. Incredibly violent. The Mexican cartels hold dominion over entire swaths of land. Anti-cartel militias have risen up to try and fight back when the police either can’t or won’t.

In fact, it’s easy to look down on Mexican police as being at least as big a part of the problem as the cartels themselves. Yet after events Monday in Mexico, we may want to rethink that assessment just a bit.

At least 13 police officers were killed early Monday in the state of Michoacan in western Mexico, the latest in a series of high-casualty attacks by armed criminal groups across the country.

The state police were enforcing a judicial order in the small town of El Aguaje not long after daybreak when they were ambushed, security officials said.

Local media reported that the attack was waged from an armed convoy of 20 vehicles.

State authorities said 13 police officers were killed and three …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms