Posted on 03/03/2020 11:23:28 AM PST by conservative98
Dramatic police bodycam video shows the moment former “ER” actress Vanessa Marquez was gunned down by police during a “welfare” check on the actress in California.
The video, published by TMZ Tuesday, opens with an unidentified police officer trying to coax Marquez to go to the hospital in August 2018 after her South Pasadena landlord raised concerns about her wellbeing.
Marquez, 49, who said she had a seizure, is seen sitting on a disheveled bed and looking down at her mobile phone while the cop pleads with her.
“We’ve already had this discussion and it’s beyond that now, OK?” the cop says.
“I’m not going,” the actress replies.
Things then take a dramatic turn when Marquez is seen reaching under the covers.
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In her condition they weren’t gonna leave her armed. Plus she was having some kind of medical and/or mental issues.
Thats why beanbag rounds or even taser, despite her ‘seizures’, would be used to disarm and get her medical/mental help.
She obviously was having a problem. Most of those folks don’t like taking their meds, and then they spiral into a very bad mental state. Lots of people feel they’d rather die than keep taking the meds, and they do this kind of thing. It doesn’t mean the cops have to oblige them, so many nonlethal ways exist to subdue a person in this situation.
I figure they’re taught that when the gun’s pointed your way, no one’s going to punish you for whatever you do that stops the situation.
I second that.
She came to the stop of the stirs, pointed the gun at the cops and said “kill me”.
NO ONE does warning shots (would you like one going up in the sky and coming down on your head next door?)
Maybe they should have left and then she could have snuck out the window and shot up the house next door.
She or someone removed the orange tip she intentionally was pointing a weapons that anyone would think is a real gun.
“”gunned down”?
Post Writer Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and his editor are cop hating scum.
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There’s gotta be a 10th one out there - right?
You know, just like in Mel Brooks’ “History of The World: Part I” where Moses had 15 Commandments and dropped one of the tablets on the ground and suddenly there were 10?
She pointed a gun at armed cops and is dead. It was a gun, not a tv remote mistaken for a gun.
Pretty messed up right there. Not sure they should have unloaded on her. Perhaps a well placed round, perhaps non lethal means such as bean bag shotgun. I dunno...freaking messed up.
That was way back when your house was your castle. Now they just bust in and order you around and shoot your ten pound ankle biting dog & you, if you resist.
Agree! She had a gun and pointed it at them.
This was a Red Flag action.
Welfare check = putting a bullet in someone?
But 2 hours of “welfare checking” happened before that. They shouldn’t have let it got to that point.
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They may have been legally required to tell her she would be take on 5150 hold for a period of time. I didn’t want until the end only until they are retreated downstairs telling her to come out without the gun. They did all i could expect in these circumstances.
Yeah man and at the end there’s a close up of the gun point around the corner at them.
Bad idea!
I’m SURE they can’t leave the house at that point becaus if she killed herself they would be called cowards who didn’t handle things well at all.
Boy cops #### up sometimes, and bad.
But overall, out of millions of incidents, considering many of them are KIDS, at least from my age view..they do a pretty good job.
Calling the police for help just isn’t a good idea anymore.
More and more they are why we need help.
They killed her for her own good.
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