the hummmm must be getting to them...
Posted on 03/17/2015 6:34:09 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Sixteen months after leaving the New Mexico State Police amid controversy surrounding an officer-involved shooting in which he fired at the tires of a fleeing minivan carrying a woman and her five children, Elias Montoya is wearing a badge again.
Montoya is among the Taos County Sheriff’s newest deputies. Chosen from among 17 candidates who applied for two open positions, he is expected to be back on patrol by month’s end.
While describing Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe’s decision to hire him as “a gutsy move,” Montoya was unreserved Monday in discussing the incident Oct. 28, 2013 that ended his career as a state police patrolman and brought unlikely national attention to Taos.
Footage of the shooting captured by a colleague’s dashboard-mounted video camera has been broadcast on national television and viewed millions of times online.
(Excerpt) Read more at taosnews.com ...
Lawsuit waiting to happen.
I vaguely recall this incident. The woman and one of her teenagers(Obama’s relatives) were provoking the cop to use violence.
Taos is crazy for hiring this idiot.
Rinse, repeat...
It’ll happen again, in some form...
Not a time bomb. He is a cop who gives no quarter to felons.
He just needs a good partner.
I remember the woman was not being very cooperative, but the New Mexico law for paying the speeding fine or pleading not guilty seemed kind of convoluted to me.
I think one of the teenagers got out of the car and started walking towards the cop. I could be wrong about that tho.
the hummmm must be getting to them...
The other 15 were probably too much of hot heads, to hire.
I was just thinking the same thing!
Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-.
lol!
Oriana Farrell = CBW
ping
yup, and i don't mean Dinah-Moe
As John McEnroe would say “you have got to be kidding me”
As I recall she refused to sign the ticket and fought with a cop and her teenage son got out of the vehicle and assaulted the cop. She then took off and led them on a high speed chase through a heavy traffic area. The nut job got off too.
A grand jury indicted her again, but I think they dropped charges on her son.
Oriana Ferrell pleads not guilty in new indictment (12/16/14)
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3651744.shtml
She is one whackjob.
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