Mexican federal prison officers train in Colorado to combat drug-gang attacks
A Mexican drug kingpin accused of killing 15 unarmed people pulls a gun out of a guard’s holster in open court and blasts several Mexican federales before he is gunned down himself.
The violent confrontation, which left a judge’s desk in splinters and bodies strewn about, didn’t actually unfold in a Mexico City court but in a dusty room with no ceiling at a secret location in Colorado.
It was a simulation played out by Mexican federal prison officers who have been in Colorado for the past two weeks for training by an elite Department of Corrections prisoner transport and security unit.
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