To: CedarDave
I'm sure Officer Elias Montoya is a fine upstanding individual...loves puppy dogs and BBQ, eats mom's apple pie too...
What he did was unconscionable and he should have been fired...
Lots of people do ONE really stupid thing at their place of employment and pay the price by losing their job...
Just like he did...
4 posted on
12/07/2013 3:11:55 PM PST by
Popman
To: Popman
It was reported (in the link to other article*) that there was a gun in the car and one of the officers yelled "gun" which may have caused escalation of the incident by police. The gun in the vehicle turned out to be a toy gun.
*State officer in minivan shooting is fired
6 posted on
12/07/2013 3:19:05 PM PST by
CedarDave
(Small town America - last stand for God, freedom, civility, and American values.)
To: Popman
This is a devil-in-the-details kind of situation.
At least some accounts have the policeman shooting out the tires of the van. Now whether it’s reasonable to expect that a typical officer aiming to do that won’t also get bullets into the vehicle itself, is a real big unknown here to us. Maybe this should have been a Motorola and road block occasion. Sometimes it’s too easy to treat the gun as a panacea.
Devil is in the details. I hope it wasn’t just because of popular hounding of people who were outraged before knowing all pertinent factors. That is a band-aid that won’t do much to fix more systemic problems.
7 posted on
12/07/2013 3:19:15 PM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: Popman; CedarDave
What he did was unconscionable and he should have been fired..I understand the officer was just following
their ROE for fleeing felons. This all about BLACK RACISM.
17 posted on
12/07/2013 4:49:58 PM PST by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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