Posted on 10/24/2019 6:50:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The surveillance camera footage, provided by attorney Stuart Chandler, shows 16-year-old Isiah Murrietta Golding climb a fence and enter a small yard as he is being chased by two officers.
Murrietta Golding, wearing a gray sweater, lands on his feet and starts to run. One officer climbs the fence while the other gets into a crouching stance and fires through the fence, the video shows. Murrietta Golding then stumbles and falls to the ground.
In the police body camera footage, also provided by the attorney, someone off camera can be heard saying "good shot."
The bullet went through the back of the teen's head, according to the father's lawsuit, and he died three days later. The lawsuit claims the officer who fired had no "objective facts" to believe that Murrietta Golding was armed or reaching for a weapon. The teen was unarmed, the lawsuit states.
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Chris Rock said it all..
“On the police body camera footage, also provided by the attorney, someone off camera can be heard saying “good shot.””
Hell yes to get it though the fence jolly good shot
Murder in the third?
You can’t shoot an unarmed person in the back, even if he had broke the law.
So a cop can shoot a kid in the head, but not the ass or the legs?
Whoa
It may have been a good shot, but it doesn’t sound like a good shoot.
What the hell is wrong with some of these cops? Maybe they need to take their weapons away and just make them walk a beat with a nightstick.
That cop belongs in prison for a very long time.
“ The 16-year-old was also known to carry firearms and had jumped a fence into a child daycare center.”
Shooting into the yard of a daycare center - smh
The police were in hot pursuit of a gangbanger murder suspect. He had just escaped from police custody.
Wrong.
“Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. Thus, if the suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given.”
I support the thin blue line 90% of the time...
No way the this is a good shoot.
You guys need to read the real facts. This gangbanger had just murdered someone a short time previously.
I think it was a bad shoot (Fresno, CA), but this is a mitigating factor in the cop’s judgment:
“The (surveillance) video represents a different vantage point and was not what the pursuing officers could see. The 16-year-old was also known to carry firearms and had jumped a fence into a child daycare center.”
What’s the probable cause?
He had no weapon.
that was sickening
The official Fresno PD response:
Citing police statements, the father’s lawsuit says that Murietta Golding was wanted for questioning in connection with a shooting one day earlier that had caused a fatal car crash. Fresno Police sought to question the teenager and pulled over a car in which he was a passenger, the lawsuit states.
The teenagers in the car initially complied with police. But Murietta Golding then took off running, the lawsuit states, leading to the fatal chase.
Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall told CNN affiliate KSEE that the shooting was ruled justified by police’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office and the City of Fresno’s Office of Independent Review.
“The use of lethal force in this case occurred while officers were investigating a homicide. The 16-year-old in this case was involved in the homicide with his brother and the brother was later arrested and pled guilty,” Hall said.
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