Today’s musical dedication goes out to all those who focus on the victim and overlook the facts surrounding two Border Patrol agents who were convicted in the shooting of a fleeing drug trafficker along the Rio Grande: “Right and a Wrong Way,” but Keith Sweat.

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     Those calling for the immediate exoneration of the two Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, are too focused on their anti-drug indoctrination to see the whole picture. We can’t let the ends justify the means.

     Sure, the guy they shot was a drug trafficker, and that’s what the agents suspected, but they weren’t sure. The guy was running away and posed no threat; the agents shot him in the back — OK, for the benefit of those nitpickers like Glen Beck, he was shot in the butt and not the back. Either way, he had his back turned.

     Most damning is the fact that the two agents conspired to cover up their actions. That is evidence enough that they knew that what they had done was wrong.

     Innocent people have died because people have pulled the trigger when they didn’t have to. Although that wasn’t the case here, it could have been.

     That’s why these two agents should have gone to trial and why they were convicted, despite the public sentiment surrounding border incursions. It even overshadows the argument that in shooting the guy they stopped him from participating in any more drug deliveries across the Rio Grande.

     Due process is necessary in order to bring all the facts into the open and let the decisions be made by the appropriate legal officials, and not members of the public who have more emotions than facts at their disposal.