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Man killed by Yakima police was holding an airsoft gun
KIMATV ^ | January 6, 2014 | Ada Chong

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
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To: yarddog

I agree. Seen it too.
Cops are not there for the protection of anything except their jobs and the government coffers. I used to respect them so much more but not much now. I surprised my DH by calling them mostly all JBTs or revenue makers.
I know if there is ever anything happening, I need to hide my dog and my gun, even in my own home, if a cop shows up. My doggy would bark and try to jump in their arms.
I will make an exception. I have had to call 911 in the past for medical emergencies and they were first on scene and used memo pads and oxygen masks not guns.
This story may have a lot more to it, but it sounds like an impatient, tired cop who was not as observant as he should have been. It won’t matter.


61 posted on 01/10/2014 8:32:23 PM PST by ozaukeemom (Is there even a republic left?)
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To: kiryandil; Blood of Tyrants; yarddog; Paladin2; driftdiver; Kickass Conservative; null and void; ...
Lesson learned, don’t threaten a cop with a weapon that appears to be a real gun.

It doesn't have to be a gun; it could be a cell phone, a book, heck you'd best just read this:
Stop, Drop, and Cower
[Direct Link]

62 posted on 01/10/2014 8:33:05 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: ozaukeemom

Had not read further to see that he opened the passenger car without notice. smdh
This country gets more scary every day.


63 posted on 01/10/2014 8:34:50 PM PST by ozaukeemom (Is there even a republic left?)
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To: OneWingedShark

...or a pop tart.


64 posted on 01/10/2014 8:35:49 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: GraceG

Before I left America, it was obvious that cops were morphing into jack-booted thugs. They are no more “good old boys” on the beat.


65 posted on 01/10/2014 8:37:05 PM PST by AlexW
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To: Uncle Chip
The kid must not have gotten the memo that he was going to be playing Cops And Peasants, and that he was selected to be on the losing team...
66 posted on 01/10/2014 8:38:35 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: AlexW
Before I left America, it was obvious that cops were morphing into jack-booted thugs. They are no more “good old boys” on the beat.

There are still a few, but they're just a few & far between.

67 posted on 01/10/2014 8:41:34 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: AlexW

When I was a kid growing up in the 50s the cops were a different breed. I had Florida Highway Patrolmen give me a ride home at least twice. Once one picked up me and my brother and he patiently answered my big brother’s questions.

One of them was “how far can you chase a suspect, can you cross state lines?” He answered that he could chase him indefinitely as long as he could see the tail lights.

My Sunday School teacher was a Florida Highway Patrolman. I don’t think he would ever have shot someone before finding out what was going on. I could understand him being ready and having his gun in hand but not shoot until he knew what was happening.

Modern cops wear the same hairdo with both sides of their head nearly shaved with a sort of faux mohawk. They wear something like perfume and look like they just stepped out of a hair dressers.


68 posted on 01/10/2014 8:50:25 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: kiryandil

More like he was going to play the part of Andy Lopez.

I hope they file an immediate civil suit against quick draw and the department.


69 posted on 01/10/2014 8:50:26 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: yarddog
‘Those toy guns have a very visible bright orange ring on the muzzle end. They are not only easy to see, they are hard not to see. That is why they use bright orange and put it on the muzzle.’

True, but I wouldn't want to field test the assumption by pointing one at the generally pretty laid back fellows in the local parish sheriff’s department. Long before all this ‘law enforcement’ cow excrement came along my father taught me to put down or drop what ever I was holding when turning towards a police officer who wanted to ‘speak’ to me. This might not be what should be in the best of all worlds but it is simply a realistic approach to not being shot.

70 posted on 01/10/2014 8:56:38 PM PST by robowombat
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To: kiryandil

It was dark. The guy, the hand, the gun were visible, but not the orange ring. Sounds like a bad shooting.


71 posted on 01/10/2014 8:57:53 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: driftdiver

Just like the TSA website showing all the dangerous stuff they confiscate, but ignoring the fact that 99.999999% of the time it’s totally innocent.


72 posted on 01/10/2014 8:59:58 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: yarddog
‘Modern cops wear the same hairdo with both sides of their head nearly shaved with a sort of faux mohawk. They wear something like perfume and look like they just stepped out of a hair dressers.’

When did you meet Corporal Perritti of the Saint Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department? You left out the expensive designer sun glasses. He is the only equine terminal orifice on that force that I have encountered in eight years of living in the parish.

73 posted on 01/10/2014 9:00:10 PM PST by robowombat
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To: robowombat

I wonder how many people know that it was illegal for a Roman Citizen to be shackled for any reason. I am sure this had something to do with dignity.

Modern cops care nothing of the citizen except cowing them, cuffing everyone in the area (it is for my own protection). Scaring kids and women to death but hey the cop gets to go home safely at the end of his shift.


74 posted on 01/10/2014 9:06:22 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: robowombat

So obviously the policeman, can’t do anything like, oh, I don’t know, stay in his vehicle, or come up behind the guy with his vehicle, turn lights on, come over the loudspeaker and say “this is the police, put everything down and put your hands on the roof of the car.”


75 posted on 01/10/2014 9:13:15 PM PST by gemoftheocean (...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)
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To: robowombat
my father taught me to put down or drop what ever I was holding when turning towards a police officer who wanted to ‘speak’ to me. This might not be what should be in the best of all worlds but it is simply a realistic approach to not being shot.

But then you would have to know that it was a police officer that suddenly opened the passenger door of your car at 3am with no warning, which the officer admitted to. Per the statement, there is no indication as yet whether the airsoft gun was pointed at the officer. In addition, the officer admitted that he saw that the "gun" was disassembled. At this point the shooting looks unjustified.

76 posted on 01/10/2014 9:18:46 PM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: Mastador1
They haven’t interviewed the officer yet and they don’t want to speculate, but he can state categorically that the victim had his finger on the trigger.

They use the media all the time to put out what they want to put out. Anything to discredit those they encounter.

77 posted on 01/10/2014 9:21:28 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: GraceG

That poster of the “realistic” shooting targets is missing a picture of a kid holding a pop tart chewed into the shape of a pistol. Gotta cover all the bases.


78 posted on 01/10/2014 9:21:37 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: yarddog

“When I was a kid growing up in the 50s the cops were a different breed. I had Florida Highway Patrolmen give me a ride home at least twice.”
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The same for me during the 50s. I was on the school safety patrol. When school let out for the day, we had car 44, officer Cunningham, working the highway crossing. He would give me a ride home on some afternoons.


79 posted on 01/10/2014 9:25:01 PM PST by AlexW
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To: kiryandil

Okay, here’s the deal, I recently went to a hobby store to get an RC helicopter and noticed the Airsoft guns. I was amazed at the realistic look of these guns. Had they not had the orange tips, I could not tell the difference and I shoot the real deals, AR’s etc.

Nobody should go out waving around an Airsoft AK or Airsoft anything else, and be surprised if they get shot, orange tip or not. With the cops these days just itch’n for an excuse.

C’mon man!


80 posted on 01/10/2014 9:26:33 PM PST by slouper
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