Posted on 04/11/2021 1:19:45 PM PDT by USA Conservative
Officials with the New Mexico State Police gave more details about the fatal shooting of an officer in February.
On February 4 New Mexico State Police officer Darian Jarrott initiated a traffic stop on a white Chevrolet pickup on Interstate 10 eastbound, near mile marker 102 east of Deming, New Mexico.
During the traffic stop, Jarrott asked the driver, identified as 39-year-old Omar Felix Cueva of Deming to exit the vehicle.
Cueva exited the driver’s side holding an AR-15-style rifle and fired at least one shot at officer Jarrott as he was walking to the rear of the vehicle.
Officer Jarrott ducked and fell onto his back as Cueva ran around the back of the pickup toward officer Jarrott.
Cueva fired several more rounds at Jarrott who was struck by gunfire and killed.
As Cueva ran toward the front of the truck on the passenger’s side, he shot Jarrott point-blank in the back of the head.
New Mexico police department just released this dashcam and bodycam video from Officer Jarrott.
Warning Graphic Video:
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As Cueva fled eastbound on Interstate 10, law enforcement officers from the Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD), the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office (DASO), and U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) assisted New Mexico State Police with the pursuit. Near the Picacho exit on Interstate 10, (near mile marker 135), NMSP officers successfully utilized tire deflation devices on Cueva’s pickup. Cueva continued to flee east on Interstate 10. Various law enforcement officers engaged Cueva in gunfire as he fled. DASO Deputy Jerod Huston fired rounds from his department issued rifle near the mile marker 136. DASO Deputy John Signore fired at Cueva near the mile marker 138 eastbound. Near mile marker 139, USBP Agent Oscar Delgado fired one round at Cueva as he passed. LCPD Officer Adrian De La Garza then utilized a Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) maneuver near mile marker 140.
Prior to the pickup coming to a stop, Cueva exited the pickup armed with a firearm and shot multiple rounds towards the officers and deputies. LCPD Officer Adrian De La Garza and DASO Deputies Diego Herrera and Obed Marte returned fire towards Cueva, who was struck several times by gunfire. Officer De La Garza was struck by gunfire and was airlifted to a trauma hospital in Texas where he was treated and released for non-life-threatening injuries. Officers rendered aid to Cueva until emergency medical personnel arrived on scene. Cueva sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased on scene by the Office of Medical Investigator. This investigation is active and being led by the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau.
This is the video when they catch back up to Cueva:
Cueva was described as a “violent criminal” who died in a shootout with numerous law enforcement agencies after gunning down a New Mexico State Police Officer.
Authorities released a mugshot of 39-year-old Omar Felix Cueva, whom the state police chief indicated had a “violent criminal history that included drug trafficking and other felonies” in California.
A state police official released lengthy list of Cueva’s convictions. It showed his first arrest at age 13 for vandalism, repeated drug possession in his teens, and drug trafficking at 21, culminating in possession with intent to distribute crystal meth at age 29.
The complete list of crimes for which he was found guilty included:
06/1994 Vandalism 06/2000 Possession of a controlled substance 09/2001 Possession of Controlled substance 10/2002 Importation of a controlled substance 4/2004 Importation of Cocaine 8/2006 Fictitious Check, False check, Burglary 3/2007 Probation Violation 3/2008 Import of a controlled substance 9/2010 Possession with intent of Crystal Meth or ICE
Cops are statute enforcers, not peace officers
This is why young people avoid becoming cops!
What happens when people don’t volunteer anymore to be a cop ?
No.
Police officers pull over bad tail lights, tinted windows etc because that’s the only way to avoid a “profiling” counteraccusation.
Hey, sounds like a firing squad would be a good sentence for this goon...oh wait, the new improve US stance on crime would probably recommend 20 years in a country club prison or released on probation.
So the AR-15 is the problem, not the drug dealer?
It was probably an Obama/Holder Fast and Furious gun.
Even an outright ban on ALL firearms wouldn’t have stopped this due to the nature of the suspect.
Not the place or time for your dumbass statement. The man was executed for wearing a badge and being curtious. A dumb tint statute or ordinance is no excuse to execute a man.
Bad guys will always have guns no matter the gun laws that are passed....
Chicago, Detroit, DC, Philly, Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis and on and on.
The good guys got this guy and made Swiss cheese out of him.
Those are precisely the small infractions that Oregon Stste Police use as probable cause to pull people over, hoping to make big drug busts. It works. This cop is(was) clueless. Never should have taken his eyes off this guy.
Over on Hannity forums the progressives were recently all over so-called ghost guns, and seemed impervious to the thought that both in terms of expense and effort — given the availability of cheap untraceable firearms — it simply makes no sense for regular criminals to bother with them.
I would not be surprised.
Am I still on a conservative forum? So now it was the trooper’s fault because he stopped a vehicle for a equipment violation?
Some of the biggest criminals are busted because of a taillight out or too much tint. Lawbreakers break the law in big and little ways. The little ways often betray them.
Yep, statute aka IrS tax enforcers, period. Government bureaucrat dependents
I agree with you. For all we know the window tint stop was a pretext for an illegal drug search, highway robbery under the guise of ‘civil asset forfeiture’, or maybe the NM cops have some sort of arbitrary cash revenue quota to make.
It’s not popular to say this but every time you encounter law enforcement you should be prepared for a life threatening experience.
As to what I’d do without police the answer is simple: I’d be free to defend myself and my loved ones without fearing prosecution or roadside justice from armed thugs.
I grew up trusting cops because the vast majority were good guys. Then I got older and got used to frequent armed stops, a few beatings, one jailing, and having my car destroyed because I “looked like” a guy who was literally six inches shorter than me. I ended up carrying a letter from our county DA to show to cops who stopped me.
Those things took place between 1982 and 1987. Had they happened today I’d probably get killed because some idiot with a fervent imagination would “fear for his life”.
So yeah, I agree with you.
Except that when one of them kills someone for a democrat law against tobacco or a knife, then it is white people who are blamed for the killing of the black man, not the cops enabling this perversity of government tax enforcement.
Illegal?
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