Posted on 05/04/2013 4:51:34 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Middlefield Police have released the dash cam footage of the deadly March 10 officer-involved shooting in which a Mentor-on-the-Lake man was killed and two officers were injured.
The nearly 2 1/2 minute video begins by showing Officers Brandon Savage and Erin Thomas driving southbound at about 5:55 p.m. on Route 608, when a green Saturn failed to stop at the intersection of 608 and East High Street.
The officers enacted the traffic stop a short distance north of the intersection. As the officers prepared to approach the vehicle, the video appears to show the officers discussing movement in the Saturn.
Hes hiding something, Thomas can be heard saying.
Sitting in the passenger seat, she then exited the cruiser and circled back behind it to the driver side. Savage remained in the driver seat.
Before Thomas reached the front bumper of the cruiser, James Gilkerson, 42, quickly exited his vehicle and began firing on the officers with a FEG 7.62x39, commonly referred to as a AK-47 style semi-automatic rifle. About 45 seconds elapsed from when Gilkerson stopped his vehicle to when he exited and began firing.
Gilkerson can then be seen moving away from his vehicle out further into the middle of 608 and toward the police cruiser. After being hit by shots from Savage, Gilkerson moves back toward the Saturn repeatedly yelling, Kill me.
As Gilkerson drops to one knee still pointing his gun at the officers, Savage asks Thomas, Are you hit? Continued... ( if on line newspaper link does not work try this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pt9FS-dgS9s )
WARNING VERY GRAPHIC!
Actually the article states that one officer had multiple shrapnel injuries to multiple parts of his body and the other officer lost her left index finger.
BTW: Middlefield has a sizable Amish community that still use horse and buggies, the possible reason for the odd traffic light/sign pattern.
Great idea, moron. How is disarming law abiding citizens going to save your officers when kooks and criminals don't care if you ban their AKs and high-cap mags and clips and use them anyway?
You're a leftist, commie, gun-grabbing oppressor and you have violated your oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
You're a domestic enemy.
These AK-47s have got to go, he said. I could have lost two officers out there.
Great idea, moron. How is disarming law abiding citizens going to save your officers when kooks and criminals don't care if you ban their AKs and high-cap mags and clips and use them anyway?
You're a leftist, commie, gun-grabbing oppressor and you have violated your oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
You're a domestic enemy.
I have a picture of my car parked in a mall parking lot and the car next to mine is an Amish buggy and one horse. :-)
Thanks, Dave. That leftist “logic” just ticks me off every dang time.
Is that vehicle leaking antifreeze?
Is that vehicle leaking antifreeze?
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