Posted on 03/30/2024 6:54:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Fullerton Police Department released new body camera footage Friday evening that shows the moments leading up to a deadly police encounter that happened earlier this month.
In the early morning hours of March 6, police officers were dispatched to a McDonald’s located at 1341 S. Brookhurst Rd. for a report of two men standing at the entrance and acting erratically, possibly under the influence of drugs.
Video showed the officers arrive on scene, where they found a shirtless man swinging a belt and speaking incoherently. Officers attempted to get the man to drop the belt, but he refused.
Additional officers were called to the scene and one of the officers deployed a stun gun on the man, who was unaffected.
Another officer then began firing beanbag rounds from a shotgun which are deployed as a less-than-lethal alternative to traditional ammunition.
The man was struck multiple times and seemed unfazed by the projectiles until a last and final shot was fired that appeared to subdue him.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
A stun gun should have brought him down even if he was high as a kite. Unless the gun didn’t have enough charge. Should be 12,000 volts or more, to bring anyone down. Electrical charges causes a person to be physically, and somewhat mentally, incapacitated. even high as a Chinese balloon.
Maybe You should be looking for a Magazine.🤪
I agree they should have used nightsticks since the guy was only wielding a belt.
Very nostalgic for me. Before I retired ten years ago, I spent many an early-morning at that McDonald’s on Brookhurst at Orangethorpe, drinking coffee and reading my Bible before work, amid the Korean pastors and professors.
We had our share of loony-tunes—homeless who sometimes acted out, necessitating FPD attention—but we never made it into KTLA’s newscast.
They should ask themselves what would Sheriff Andy Taylor do, or think of something with a little bit of common sense, instead of this take'em down, take'em out policing.
A beanbag is a riot standoff weapon, not a personal confrontation weapon.
Surely the autopsy showed his level of drug intoxication?
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