Posted on 01/10/2014 7:22:26 PM PST by kiryandil
New details have come to light in this weekend's deadly officer-involved shooting outside a Yakima car wash.
YPD said the officer shot and killed Rocendo Arias because he saw him holding a gun in his car. Arias took a bullet to the head.
Investigators said Yakima Police Officer Casey Gilette saw a suspicious car parked at a car wash. After noticing it hadn't moved for an hour, YPD said Gilette approached Rocendo Arias's car. First on the driver's side, then the passenger's side and opened the door. The officer told investigators he saw Arias holding a gun.
"It appeared that he had some accessories to the handgun that he was trying to install on it or put pieces of this gun together," said Yakima police Captain Rod Light.
Gilette shot four times, hitting Arias once in the head. YPD Spokesperson Rod Light maintains the officer had reason to react.
"The deceased had the weapon not only in his hand, but he also had his finger on the trigger," said Light.
However, investigators learned that Arias' weapon wasn't a typical gun. It was an Airsoft gun, considered a replica that shoots plastic pellets. While these guns can fire at high velocity, they're not designed to be lethal. YPD said it's not clear if Arias pointed the gun at Gilette before the shooting...
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“It appeared that he had some accessories to the handgun that he was trying to install on it or put pieces of this gun together,” said Yakima police Captain Rod Light.
By their own admission, it was unassembled. And they still started blazing away.
Well, the peasant wasn't lying on his belly, with his hands cuffed behind his back, bleeding out, and Officer Friendly wasn't standing on the back of his head to force a little pavement ingestion.
So, you can see how the officer might have felt threatened.
He might have even "feared for his life!"
And "worried about going home safe!".
It's all good. The peasant is safely planted.
Ping Alaska Wolf has already been pinged.
So, what you're saying is that the kid was an accessory either before or after the fact.
DEATH!!!
See my post #22, sport.
I have thought about that too.
Eventually I decided that nearly all criminals want you to know it is a real gun. If they are using it to threaten you then they don’t want you to think it is a fake.
If they are shooting at someone then you know it is not a toy.
First of all, whether he had his finger on the trigger is not something that any cop wants to take a chance on, a gun pointed is a gun that could cause an officer to be buried by his peers. Second of all, I have over 33 years in law enforcement and know something about being in this officers situation, Chief.
Like you, I will wait for the final verdict before commenting any deeper.
Maybe the kid's relatives had a dog. So, I guess this would be justified.
You're just a civilian, Mastador. You wouldn't understand...
**snicker**
Dead men tell no tales.
LOL! The verdict is already in. The tank truck full of whitewash is pulling up to the scene.
It's over.
Why wait for all the facts?
You have already made an assumption which I think is very unlikely. Why would the guy point a plastic toy at a cop? I guess it is possible that he didn’t know it was a cop who jerked his door open. Then he might have pointed his plastic toy hoping to ward off the robber or car jacker.
Gee. Wonder why? So the cop surveiled the guy for over an hour. He's not doing anything that could be considered criminal so he goes over and sees the guy screwing with a gun that's not even pointed at him and he pops the guy?
BS.
So once again the mere possession of a firearm is justification of a death sentence.
Well put.
Premeditation. Murder One or Two, easily.
Probably trying to impress his buddy or lady friend that was riding along...
Cop saw a dangerous black gun with a finger on the trigger and reacted. That No More Hesitation Target training paid off again...
Yeah, except for the orange tip.
Well since his buddies are doing the investigation we all know how that will turn out.
At least the officer went home safe. After all that’s all that’s important
So once again the mere possession of a firearm is justification of a death sentence.
That is the part that scares me the most, he wasn’t threatening anyone with it, we wasn’t waving it about while walking around...
He was just holding it...
And was KILLED for doing that.....
You know what.... SCREW the LAW and ORDER bootlicking Freeper crowd... That’s right I said it... Next damn thing you know they will be shooting open carry people because someone or the police felt... “Threatened”...
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