Posted on 03/09/2023 3:41:20 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Footage shows 5 Utah cops fire into BMW of man during traffic stop
Authorities released footage of five Utah cops yelling “gun” and firing a barrage of bullets into the BMW of a man who was pulled over and then refused most of the officers’ commands before shots rang out.
The bodycam video detailed the moment police officers in Farmington, a Utah suburb, shot and killed 25-year-old Chase Allan on March 1. He refused to hand over his driver’s license and declined other police commands as he recited anti-governmental views, footage indicates.
Farmington Police Chief Eric Johnsen said officers only fired after Allan reached down to what the cops believed could be a holster or a gun.
But Johnsen, during a Wednesday press conference, also acknowledged the footage is not clear leading up to the shooting because the bodycams’ view of Allan’s hip holster is blocked by the car door and an officer leaning in to yank him out just as another cop warned of a gun.
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Chase viewed one too many Screwtube videos depicting cop/sovereign citizen interactions
They’re talking about Farmington, Utah.
Well, now he won't be passing that on to any offspring.
According to a news report, Chase, a graduate of Utah State University, "has been studying law the last few years and was a patriot doing what he could to defend the people’s freedom and liberty in his community."
Given his behavior in (his?) BMW, maybe he should ask for his money back from whoever was teaching him.
I’m counting 6 really stuuupid people in this incident.
Except that the Farmington in this story is in Utah. And, yeah, I agree that Nuevo Mehico has a Marxist oligarchy. It's too bad. It's a lovely state in many ways.
Had he complied none of this would have happened. And what the officer was asking for was not unreasonable. If you’re going to let no registration or expired registrations go without any consequences where does this stop? No license, no insurance, speeding, reckless driving? If you get hit and permanently disabled by an uninsured motorist who was let go by police because they didn’t want to enforce the law and the person that hits you says sorry I can pay you $50 a month you would be slightly pissed at the police and the jerk who was driving without insurance or a license.
The sovereign citizen nonsense is just as crazy as the we hate all cops attitude of BLM and even some FR cop haters. All the cops fired because they heard gun. It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback and say well only one should have fired, how are the other four officers supposed to know who’s the one whose supposed to fire?
The victim dictated the outcome of this entire event, had he complied he might have got a ticket, at the very worse, car towed, instead he rolled out the attitude immediately, he’s dead because he was stupid.
My daughter, about 24 at the time, was a passenger in a truck with a male friend and was totally harassed right when the pandemic hit. Sunday night about 10 pm. 5 cop cars and made both of them leave the truck and walk home or go to jail. Would not give them any reason why they were being harassed. Cuffed them, searched the truck, etc. They found nothing! They were just going back to my daughters office from In and Out Burger. And this is an upper middle class neighborhood in Commifornia. She even mentioned that she knew a few of the cops that were her friends. They weren’t there and said quit name dropping. Made me so mad but the problem is we all live in the same city and if we filed a complaint, I’m sure their harassment would make us move out of the city. I have NO faith in the police any more.
My opinion is when the government orders the cops to disarm Americans 90% of them will jump at the chance.
We are witnessing a full shift to Marxism.
Most are fast asleep in their bubble, and haven’t a clue. This is real.
“My opinion is when the government orders the cops to disarm Americans 90% of them will jump at the chance.”
Gestapo cops are known by my elected pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff. After the sheriff meets with these gestapo cops, all of them find a reason to resign and leave the county.
If citizens don’t have a constitutional sheriff, who has the legal and armed muscle to educate gestapo cops, I strongly suggest that citizens get off their asses and elect one.
“Maybe he was afraid the cops were going to beat him up as has happened so much lately with other citizens.”
SAY WHAT?
I have NEVER been beaten up by a cop.
Yes officer, no officer.
License/registration/insurance? Yes officer
Thank you, officer.
“Cops werent really arguing.”
Well, the article said they were.
I should have followed up in my post. The “victims” first mistake was he not only did not roll down his window, he did not tell the police officer he was armed. (I saw somewhere that the cops found a handgun on the floor of the car)
Ask any cop and they will tell you, traffic stops are scary. They never know what they are going to encounter.
Letting them know you are armed and are no threat to them is the first step in lowering his/her anxiety after rolling down your window. Civility and Humor also helps
Righteous shoot.
Police following their training.
Better a dead sovereign citizen than a police officer.
I have no issue with their reactions. These things are going to happen when folks decide they want to push back against police.
This guy does funny bits.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOfficialSamBailey
Cobb County Skit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJEQBnmglas
Those cops will now probably be suspended or fired and the “sovereign” family will sue the US government for millions and probably get it when the fact of the matter is the kid brought it on himself by choosing to escalate rather than act like an adult and bring his complaints to the court.
When I lived in Brooklyn NYC I use to jog to work every morning 3am and about 2 or 3 times a week a cop would pull up and question me as I looked suspicious. I would absolutely comply every time and would be out of there in 2 minutes.
One time they even mistook me for a guy involved in a shooting, put me against the cop car, cuffed me, searched me, no problem, and once they vetted me, I was out of there.
I use to drive a Yellow cab in NYC as well and would constantly get pulled over, never had a problem. Now we have all these problems with people resisting cops, escalating things, being all around assholes and it’s DIRECTLY because of leftists and this war on cops started by the Kenyan shtbag
Thank you for the interesting account and insight. Most of us from far on the other side of the Hudson from NYC haven’t experienced that kind of high density population environment. It looks like a good place to learn street smarts and learn to get along.
We human beings are fragile and only here for a short time. Nonetheless, freedom is important, too, even the extra liberty enjoyed by those of us in less densely populated areas. We’re a great nation, if we don’t mess it up.
And many other nations—especially those under tighter and more corrupt dictatorships—are far more messed up and difficult to tolerate. This country (the USA) is our last stand to find and maintain a reasonable balance and to oppose anarchy, monarchy, hard socialism (like communism) and fascism.
And with military weapons and tactics of today along with avowed foreign enemies who don’t think the way that we think, we must also maintain our national security with much foresight.
I’m cool in interactions with police. Most of them are good at what they do and thankful to people who are courteous. It’s best to be unafraid and calm in any meeting with them, good or bad. If any seriously negative issue occurs, the street is not the place to try to settle it.
It's also a military principle. It doesn't matter that you don't know what he's shooting at, you support your buddy's fire, without exception.
homemade “sovereign citizen” type “license plate” ...
idiot was deliberately asking for trouble
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I’ll say!!
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