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Taos sheriff hires officer who left state police after controversial shooting
Taos News ^
| 3-17-15
| Andrew Oxford
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 Sheriffs newest deputies. Chosen from among 17 candidates who applied for two open positions, he is expected to be back on patrol by months end.
While describing Sheriff Jerry Hogrefes 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 colleagues dashboard-mounted video camera has been broadcast on national television and viewed millions of times online.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; newmexico
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timebomb
To: smokingfrog
Lawsuit waiting to happen.
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:35:52 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: smokingfrog
I vaguely recall this incident. The woman and one of her teenagers(Obama’s relatives) were provoking the cop to use violence.
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:40:18 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: smokingfrog
Taos is crazy for hiring this idiot.
Rinse, repeat...
It’ll happen again, in some form...
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: smokingfrog
Not a time bomb. He is a cop who gives no quarter to felons.
He just needs a good partner.
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:45:52 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: RginTN
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.
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:47:57 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
I think one of the teenagers got out of the car and started walking towards the cop. I could be wrong about that tho.
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:51:26 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: smokingfrog
the hummmm must be getting to them...
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:52:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: smokingfrog
Chosen from among 17 candidates who applied for two open positions The other 15 were probably too much of hot heads, to hire.
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posted on
03/17/2015 6:59:00 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: Chode
I was just thinking the same thing!
Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-.
To: ansel12
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posted on
03/17/2015 7:02:25 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Candor7
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posted on
03/17/2015 7:08:44 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: CedarDave
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posted on
03/17/2015 7:23:07 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
yup, and i don't mean Dinah-Moe
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posted on
03/17/2015 7:25:00 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: smokingfrog
As John McEnroe would say “you have got to be kidding me”
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posted on
03/17/2015 7:35:06 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: smokingfrog
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.
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posted on
03/17/2015 8:28:28 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Eagles6
A grand jury indicted her again, but I think they dropped charges on her son.
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posted on
03/17/2015 8:30:00 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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posted on
03/17/2015 8:32:53 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/17/2015 9:02:36 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/17/2015 9:09:30 PM PDT
by
Optimist
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