Just sayin'...
Posted on 10/30/2013 8:46:51 PM PDT by Rabin
Andy Lopez Cruz, age 13. On Oct. 22, Lopez was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy on Moorland Avenue in southwest Santa Rosa. The boy was carrying an airsoft BB gun designed to look like an AK-47 assault rifle, and police investigating the shooting said the deputy mistook the gun for a real weapon.
Lopez's parents stood before the altar, next to their son's closed coffin, which was covered in white fabric. For the duration of the service, the boy's mother, Sujey Lopez, lay her arms over the coffin with her head against it. The boy's father, Rodrigo Lopez, stood next to her, comforting her.
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Raben
Just sayin'...
RIP.
God help all involved; these shooting have happened before.
Tragic.
When the threat is laying on the ground if you still want to kill him you can and little chance he will offer resistance. But if shooting is what you really need to do the leo still can so it safely.
Did the cops show up at the funeral or the mass?
The linked article showed an actual AK47 held up next to the “replica” AIRSOFT gun. I think only an idiot would mistake the AIRSOFT gun for an AK47. An evil individual on the other hand could well decide on the spur of the moment to use the kid’s holding of the AIRSOFT gun as “rationale” for offing the kid.
The shooter cop and his lying partner and the despicable chief who tried to cover up the unlawful killing all need to be removed from the force. The two cops need to be prosecuted.
The white fabric over the coffin is called a pall. At the beginning of the funeral Mass the coffin is half in the church and half out of the church, representing the past and the present.
The pall represents the past Baptismal garment of white as well as the pall covering the coffin which represents the death of the person.
A crucifix is placed on the coffin and the priest will sprinkle it with Holy Water saying something like.....”From Baptism until death, we come today in memory of.........”
In no way are these words accurate, but they give you the idea of moving from life into death. Then the coffin is escorted into the Church and the priest and servers follow.
“The shooter cop and his lying partner and the despicable chief who tried to cover up the unlawful killing all need to be removed from the force. The two cops need to be prosecuted.”
If I remember an earlier post on this killing, the article said that 1) the shooter was an arms instructor and 2) he walked up to the downed kid and shot him again a couple of times. I don’t know how anyone who teaches shooting could mistake a plastic gun for a real one. You are right these guys need to be prosecuted and sent to prison, but five says they won’t. Just despicable, and you know that the LEO’s are circling the wagons.
Agreed. The kid was murdered. These bad cops need to pay.
Santa Rosa used to be a nice place to live.
Drugs and gangs have claimed over the last 25yrs or so.Moorland Ave heavily crime infested part of town.
Being wine country high incidence of drunk drivers and illegals without licenses.
Remember the story of Ramon Salcido who killed his wife and stabbed his 3 little girls of which one survived?
There seemed to be a problem with the Sonoma Cnty Sheriffs over that also.
Did the boy deserve to be killed with 7 shots? Absolutely not!Why not just one to the knee? Why not some kind of mace etc.. to disable him?
Cops have been too trigger happy lately.
They will pay the price on this one as will the county of Sonoma.
Hey! At least they went home safe that night!
I wonder if that cop who shot the kid may have received that kid of desensitize training?
I don’t know-know but I find it unlikely that a cop could shoot a kid with “NO MORE HESITATION” without such training.
I fervently hope the family’s lawyer does a full discovery on this.
I bet the company that made the targets has deep pockets.
Too much testosterone. Cops are for sure out of control. Scary and sad at the same time.
I think psychological testing of police forces should be used to detect the deficient of mental stability before it becomes a danger to the civilian population. It goes with my thinking that it is the nut behind the trigger that is the problem.
Agree with you that the sheriff’s deputy was hasty on this one (and in my opinion it rises to the level of manslaughter) but I have to take issue with your characterization of southwest Santa Rosa. I live about a mile from where this happened. I don’t go down that street often but like much of this immediate area, it is a mix of very small houses (many from the 1940’s), small businesses and open fields that used to be part of local farms. (We still have some small farmers in this neighborhood.) High number of Hispanics, both legal and not, but a minimal amount of gangbangers. The real “killer” gangs in this area are the Vietnamese gangs and they don’t live in this particular neighborhood.
As for Ramon Salcido, that was an ugly crime but the little girl who survived it is about 20 now. If we’re going to cite 20 year old crimes from any neighborhood, we could be here a long time.
I used to live in southwest Santa Rosa.
That area is unincorporated,there fore patrolled by SCS.
In speaking with a SRPD officer one day about the crime in the SW area.He said for all of Santa Rosa with at the time had a popu.of over 150,000.there were less than 10 officers on patrol at night.
Santa Rosa is a major stopping point on the drug runs up the coast into Oregon and Washington
I left Santa Rosa in 2003 and still go there once a year,though I live within 50 miles.I can’t believe the changes and I note, not for the better.
Ramon Salcido was noted as it was a problem with the SCS who dropped the ball on a domestic violence problem as they have done with others.Maybe not the appropriate issue to bring up when speaking about the child who was killed.
I perhaps have tumbled too much into this post.
I would like to know if the cop was taking steroids.
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