Former Border Patrol Agent 'unjustly convicted' pleads President Trump for pardon

Sara Carter Show

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🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Former Border Patrol agent Gary Brugman recalled his nights in prison. Everyday was a struggle to survive. He would tape thick automotive magazines to his chest and waist. He made a vest out of bundles of old newspapers before going to sleep, hoping it would blunt the penetration of the shanks – makeshift prison knives – that other inmates promised they would use to kill him after discovering that a federal law enforcement officer was being housed along side them.

Brugman, who served eight years in the U.S. Coast Guard and was a distinguished Border Patrol agent up until his conviction, is now asking President Trump to review his case for a pardon. He, along with his attorney, told The Sara Carter Show that the charges and prosecutorial overreach that led to his wrongful conviction in 2002, has been one of the most difficult experiences and biggest battles of his life.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back.
0:06.6	This is Sarah Carter Show and I'm coming to you live from Hillsdale College Kirby Center.
0:13.1	I'm so happy to be with you today and I think today is an important day for me because we
0:18.9	are going to be talking about the US-Mexico border and why this is so important because
0:26.7	my career started in early 2000 actually covering the US-Mexico border, the gangs in our
0:34.8	communities actually in California.
0:37.4	I was covering from East LA, from East Los Angeles to Pomona, California to San Bernardino,
0:44.1	California, the local gangs in our neighborhoods, Ontario, Upland, Rancho Cucamanga.
0:50.6	I think a lot of people from there remember me.
0:52.8	That's where my career started.
0:55.1	When I covered the local gangs, covered the social issues that were affecting our community,
1:00.0	the rapid increase of drugs, weapons on our streets, the number of young children, high
1:08.8	school kids, some as young as freshmen who were involved in shootings, some of who killed
1:15.6	police officers, Yogi was one of those kids that actually started my career.
1:21.7	That's when I covered Pomona and after working on those stories, I told my editor at the
1:29.3	Daily Bulletin, I'll never forget him, Frank Pine, Frank Pine and Steve O'Sullivan.
1:36.4	I said to them, look, our kids are getting these drugs from Mexico.
1:41.6	They're coming across the US-Mexico border and they're distributing them here in the
1:46.3	United States utilizing children in our communities.
1:50.6	People in disenfranchised communities to sell these narcotics on our street.
1:55.6	Back then, a lot of it was crystal meth, as well as cocaine, marijuana, you name it.
2:04.9	Heroin was on the streets too though.
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