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Cops 'shot 13-year-old boy carrying toy rifle' only 10 SECONDS after first spotting him
dailymail.co.uk ^ | , 26 October 2013 | DAVID MCCORMACK, ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER and RYAN GORMAN

Posted on 10/26/2013 1:04:01 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

Cops took no more than 10 seconds to fire six or seven shots into the body of dying teenager Andy Lopez after seeing him with a toy pellet gun. Mr Lopez was spotted by deputies on Tuesday afternoon in Santa Rosa, California, carrying the toy rifle, which they mistakenly thought was a real assault weapon. The time that elapsed between when officers reported the sighting to dispatch and then reported shots fired was only 10 seconds. Hundreds of local residents marched on Wednesday night to remember the popular teen and protest at the senseless shooting. They chanted 'We need justice' as they questioned how the deputies could mistake a pellet gun for an assault rifle.According to a police statement, Lopez was twice instructed to put down his weapon, officers opened fire after he failed to comply - only 10 seconds later. Sixteen seconds later, the cops radioed for medical assistance. Ethan Oliver, who lives across the street, told KTVU.com that the deputies continued to shoot at the boy, even after he had fallen to the ground. Oliver said he went outside after hearing two gun shots and by that time Lopez was already on the ground. ‘Then the cops went at it again and unloaded like six to seven shots,’ he said.When asked if he meant that the deputy shot Lopez while he was on the ground, Oliver said, ‘Yeah. Exactly what I saw.’ Authorities haven't responded to his claims, but it raises the possibility that Lopez was still alive when he hit the ground after the first two shots were fired.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; donutwatch; guncontrol; guns; lopez; moronwithbadge; police; santarosa; secondamendment; standingarmy; stupidcoptricks; warriorcops
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To: FBD
The kid was shot in the back and several more rounds were fired at him when he was already on the ground. I find that disturbing.

We don't know yet if that is the case -- we will have to wait for the ME report and the ballistics report -- but if it is then it is disturbing.

261 posted on 10/27/2013 9:56:33 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: FBD
Police say the deputies feared for their lives and one of them opened fire.

So then according to the police only one deputy feared for his life and only one deputy fired.

I don't understand the FBI involvement here -- this shouldn't be that hard to investigate.

262 posted on 10/27/2013 10:13:53 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: FBD

Militarization of LEO and demonizing gun owners

Will have to bevfealt with one day with politics by other means

They will reap the windfall they fear


263 posted on 10/27/2013 11:06:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (i loved White Queen)
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To: Tarantulas
There may not be any dashcam in that car, or if there is, the confrontation could have taken place off to one side of its field of view.

Are there patrol cars in a department this size that are not equipped with dashcams?

I can't understand why the news organizations investigating this have not asked about a video.

264 posted on 10/27/2013 11:39:05 AM PDT by Ken H (First rule of gun safety - have a gun)
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To: moonshinner_09

Am I just looking in the wrong places, or is there ZERO media outcry about this? Perhaps they’ve decided that the kid was a “White Hispanic” and deserved it.


265 posted on 10/27/2013 11:41:44 AM PDT by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: driftdiver

How the hell did you get that from what I wrote?


266 posted on 10/27/2013 11:46:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: doorgunner69

If a cop points a gun at you, he’d damn well better have a very good reason for doing so, otherwise you’re justified in terminating an unwarranted deadly threat.

If he did so, and the situation ends, then you have no reason to harm him later.

My word, some of you have no comprehension of the justified use of deadly force.


267 posted on 10/27/2013 11:50:48 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: JLS
It wasn’t a gun.

It looks like a gun, fires projectiles like a gun, is regulated like a gun, and was the only object in the teenager's hand when the police approached him.

What the command 'drop the gun' meant in this instance is prima facie obvious and not really open to the type of insipid semantic interpretation you're attempting.

268 posted on 10/27/2013 5:09:14 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Uncle Chip
Why didn't the police give him more time to comply with whatever their order was???

According to witnesses the teenager was carrying the gun in his left hand as he walked along the right side of the road. This would make it visible to passersby and to the police. If the command given to the teen was 'drop the gun' and rather than comply with that order the teenager turned to his right and brought the gun around with him the police would have less than a second to decide whether to shoot.

-btw If you'd like to see what happens when someone does decide to shoot at police with an AK47 just google "ak47 police video" there are plenty of examples.

269 posted on 10/27/2013 5:22:10 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Tarantulas

You act like there is no correct middle ground, those cops apparently were overzealous, and shot before it was justified. I do not hate police, but I do not trust them, and it IS my last resort to call them always. They are more a tool of tyranny than public servants.


270 posted on 10/27/2013 5:41:55 PM PDT by rebel25 (little o is more peanut carter than comrad roosevelt)
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To: driftdiver

Ten seconds

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And maybe the kid couldn’t hable Engles so he didn’t drop the weapon in those ten seconds.


271 posted on 10/27/2013 5:55:59 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: mac_truck

If he was such a threat then how come only one of the two officers discharged his weapon???


272 posted on 10/27/2013 6:21:33 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: JouleZ

“Ten seconds”

Early on I had not read this particular article. The interesting time about the ten seconds is that that is the time between two radio transmissions from the cops. In those 10 seconds, they had to leave the radio car, shoot multiple shots at the kids, get back in the radio car, transmit shots fired.

In addition the cops claim to have yelled at the kid twice. I wonder how much actually happened and how much they made up. I bet this time frame and a time and motion study will be a big part the trial of the shooter.


273 posted on 10/27/2013 7:53:26 PM PDT by JLS
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To: mac_truck

The child was not in a court of law. The child was not an attorney. The child probably does not know what the term “first face” even means.

Thinking legalistically will not help you with this case. Heck talking in terms of commands is not going to help this guy who shot a 13 year old child.


274 posted on 10/27/2013 7:56:44 PM PDT by JLS
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A timeline released Thursday by the Santa Rosa police shows that only 10 seconds passed from the moment that the sheriff’s deputy and his partner called dispatch to report a suspicious person to the moment they called back to say shots had been fired.

The deputy who fired was a 24 year veteran while the one who didn’t was a new hire.

The victim’s body had 7 bullet entry wounds — two of which were fatal.


275 posted on 10/27/2013 9:22:30 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
More witnesses come forward. New FR thread =>

Witnesses recount deputy fatally shooting Santa Rosa teen

276 posted on 10/28/2013 4:43:33 AM PDT by Ken H (First rule of gun safety - have a gun)
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To: Uncle Chip
If he was such a threat then how come only one of the two officers discharged his weapon?

The sheriffs deputy who fired his weapon was riding in the front right passenger seat of the patrol car. Being closest to the teenager he had the best view when the teen began to turn around to the right with the gun in his hand. He would also be the first police in the line of fire with only a car door for protection. The other deputy who was driving was positioned at more of an angle to the teenager, had an engine block between him and the potential threat and may not have been able to see the gun barrel from where he was before the other deputy started shooting.

277 posted on 10/28/2013 5:22:59 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Uncle Chip
The deputy who fired was a 24 year veteran while the one who didn’t was a new hire. .

The second deputy was 'new' to Sonoma County Sheriffs Dept. but is an 11 year veteran of law enforcement. Obviously, his testimony is very important as investigators attempt to sort things out.

278 posted on 10/28/2013 5:26:02 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: mac_truck

“They’ve also explained that the veteran deputy who opened fire believed Lopez was about to point the replica assault rifle at him.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084406/posts

In other words the dashcam video shows that the 24 year veteran was imagining things.


279 posted on 10/28/2013 5:32:29 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Nothing in the link supports your fiction about a dash-cam, but it does include two witnesses who heard the police shout “DROP THE GUN”.


280 posted on 10/28/2013 5:45:32 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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