Border Agents Forced to Face Down Bullets With Bean Bags, Critics Say

By Diane Macedo
Published March 03, 2011

|FoxNews.com
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The U.S. Border Patrol is under fire for allegedly ordering its elite, SWAT-style units to use non-lethal bean bag ammunition before responding with deadly force – even against suspects armed with high-powered semi-automatic and automatic weapons like AK-47s.

The controversy over the agency’s “bean bagâ€