Miguel Salas was taken down with a headshot after opening fire on officers. Posted on 08/08/2017 10:59:08 AM PDT by w1n1
Miguel Salas was taken down with a headshot after opening fire on officers.
Two Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officers were shot Tuesday afternoon after a theft suspect pulled a gun on them. The body camera footage has now been released (video below.)
The shooting started from a theft on Sunday where a man had his cell phones stolen from his car while in a grocery store.
The theft victim later tracked the position of his cell phones to a spot where a pickup truck was parked in the 4100 block of West Tompkins Avenue.
At around 4:15 PM on Tuesday, two officers received the report of the cell phone’s location and made contact with the occupant of the vehicle, Miguel Salas, 25, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The officers talked to Salas and asked him to get out of the truck. The man refused to comply with the officers' commands, and refused to exit his vehicle. Rather than forcing Salas out, the officers continued to try to talk to him.
This is in line with the new age of police training. Officers used the "Ask, Tell, Make" method of gaining compliance. You used to ask somebody to do something, then when they refused you’d tell them to do it, and if they’d still refused, you’d make them do it. Read and see the rest of the Bodycam Of 2 Las Vegas Officers Shot In Gunfight footage here.
Interesting to see a iPhone on the perp’s lap prior to his fit over being detained.
I’ve heard some pretty convincing arguments against mandatory body cams on cops, but it’s hard to argue the point after seeing this!
Darwin line 1... Darwin line 1...
Glad the good guys lived. To bad one of them got hit.
Nice shooting on the cops part.
Just wow.
Cops had a chance to grab both his hands and pull him out through the window.
It is not just "their word" or "their side" but one that all can see and evaluate.
And vise versa.
Writer shows he is illiterate.
“The shooting started from a theft on Sunday where a man had his cell phones stolen from his car while in a grocery store.”
Shooting started from a theft?
And what was his car doing in a grocery store?
Every thread from this click-bait site is like that. I think 15 year olds run it.
This outcome results in far less overall cost to the state and is a far better outcome for society as a whole.
Cleaner gene pool, doncha know.
That sneaky, slimey SOB deserved his fate however they should have tazered him a sooner for being uncooperative.
There is a LVMPD press brief stating the owner of the stolen truck, had his iPhone , that was in the truck stolen with it. Two days later the owner used a iPhone feature to “track” his stolen phone and found the guy parked in his truck and called the police.... there are multiple tracking apps that appear as a “game” etc in addition to the apple “find my phone” imbedded. While the stolen or lost phone is played it uses every nearby wifi to send its location.
iPhone got guy....per my read here on the couch a zillion feet away from the crime.
What a word-salad of a sentence!
There was a big thread on this a day or two ago. The LEOs made some SERIOUS mistakes and are going to be subjects of "Don't do this" training videos.
View on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7W_Comhdsg
That was a damn good shot. Pretty difficult target at that angle.
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