Alleged cartel members fire at US drone along Mexico’s border

Members of Mexican drug cartels are quite obviously disinclined to fret over breaking laws here and there as they go about their illicit business, but they purportedly engaged in a new sort of illegal activity in not just shooting at a peeking drone, but one flown as it surveyed activity along the US border to boot.

A video circulating on social media shows what appears to be either a US Customs and Border patrol unit or private security company looking on as one, perhaps two members of an alleged drug cartel fire rifles at a drone monitoring their position about 300 yards inside Mexico’s territory. Just who those American observers were is as much a matter of debate as the identity of the shooters.

Those differences of opinion notwithstanding, the drone’s operator remains remarkably calm, almost amused as he peers into a DJI RC Plus screen while watching the video feed of a group of hooded individuals communicate from different positions before…