UK ambassador to Mexico reportedly sacked after pointing gun at staff
UK ambassador to Mexico reportedly sacked after pointing gun at staff
MEXICO CITY: Britain's ambassador to Mexico was removed from his post after allegedly pointing an assault rifle inside a vehicle carrying embassy staff, reports said on Friday (May 31). The UK government said it had taken "appropriate action" after the incident, without confirming that Jon Benjamin ...
Why does the UK ambassador to Mexico carry an assault rifle in their vehicle in the first place?
21I can well believe that security staff in such a vehicle would have weapons like that.
I suspect it's a situation where somebody with no gun awareness picked up a weapon he wasn't supposed to as a very badly thought out joke. If so, I have no problem with somebody who has that kind of judgement being recalled.
24Because Mexico has a wee bit of a gang murder problem.
12Rough neighborhood.
Benjamin was on a work trip to a northwestern Mexican region plagued by drug cartel violence when the incident happened, the Financial Times reported.
Foreign officials often travel with bodyguards when visiting danger zones in Mexico, it noted.
9UK ambassador
Mexico
You answered your own question there.
4Uh, what?
I doubt there are any political types in Mexico that don't travel with security and powerful guns
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Typical conservative. Those they deem beneath them, are expendable.
Dude in the back was like "WTF, asshole? We deal with this from cartels, now you too?"
15Just ambassador things.
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