About those poor illegal aliens...

CASA GRANDE, Ariz (KGUN9-TV) A spokesperson with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office has confirmed a deputy has been shot near I-8 & AZ84 by a suspected undocumented immigrant after encountering 2 in the desert.

The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. Friday when the dispatch center received a radio transmission from the deputy saying he had been shot by undocumented immigrants. Dispatch did not receive any other radio traffic from the deputy after that transmission.

Authorities from several agencies are checking the area southwest of Casa Grande for at least two men armed with an AK-47 and a handgun.

Video coming into the KGUN9 Newsroom shows several law enforcement helicopters searching the area, deputies speeding through the desert, and a medical helicopter landing near a truck stop. Information being relayed from law enforcement helicopters to news helicopters says that suspects are shooting at the helicopters preventing them from rescuing the deputy.

It's not at all unlikely the deputy is of Hispanic ancestry. Anyone casting this in the same vein as the civil rights movement of the 60's might consider how many black deputies worked under "Bull" Connor (zip is the number).

No further comment from myself other than I'll be praying for the deputy.