Posted on 01/27/2014 4:24:18 PM PST by kiryandil
Video of a police standoff contradicts the initial Pinal County Sheriff's Office description of the chain of events that led to the shooting death of a suspected car thief. The man had led police and sheriff's deputies on a chase through Casa Grande and Eloy for nearly an hour, before deputies immobilized the car he was driving.
A witness shot the video on a cell phone. It shows the final moments of the standoff, when deputies were ordering Manuel Longoria to surrender. The deputies had their weapons drawn and fired five bean bag rounds at the suspect, in addition to Taser rounds.
Longoria appeared to be moving his arms around, and did not appear to be cooperating with the deputies. Seconds later, the video shows Longoria turn his back on the deputies and raise both hands into the air, high over his head. One second later, a lone deputy fired two shots, killing Longoria.
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“...raising your hands in the air is sort of the universal gesture of I surrender.
That is the sign!
Nah, we got einsteins here who think that means it's fine to kill him by shooting him in the back.
Isn't the boyfriend cute? He's illegal.
Now this one is a legitimate example of police corruption.
And the value of cameras.
Orwell imagined that surveillance would only serve the state. He was wrong, it cuts both ways.
Those cops should have blown his head off for gawd sake, he stole a car. Geezes...that is a death sentence in many 3rd world countries. (sarcasm)
Can you tell if any of the Roid Ragin Donut Brown Barrage Balloons are humping each other in their excitement?
Yeah. He chose to borrow his sisters car when she said no and she thought she would teach him a little lesson.
Turns out she accidentally taught him to push up daisies.
Not sure I'd call someone who stole his sister's car a "car thief".
Maybe a creep brother, perhaps.
I think the Sheriff's department had to make it look like he was some Big Time Crimnul...
More graduates from the Fullerton Police Academy.
He was executed simply and only because the cop wanted to shoot him. He caused the officer some hectic time and the officer desired to shoot him because of that.
Right. So, if I'm a citizen in a kerfuffle, and I cap some ner do well, and go to trial and say: "It was HIGH ADRENALINE, FEW HAVE CLEAR HEADS AND I WAS AFRAID FOR MY LIFE!"
I WILL go to jail for lots and lots of years.
Only pigs can get away with that one.
It looks as if this was a bad shoot. The officer was not immediately cited for heroism or awarded his instant Vacation With Pay.
Panicked.
True, true, but he’s still eligible to 80% retirement for job induced stress...
I’m a former prosecutor.
That was murder.
No doubt about it.
And what’s equally troubling is that evidently all the other LEOs went along with the story that he was reaching for a weapon (which didn’t exist).
Then the person who videoed the jack booted thugs released the video.
No wonder cops hate it when we video them.
Kind of hard to be reaching for a gun with your hands clearly visible and over your head while turning your back to the cops.
A suspect gets shot twice in the back and the first thing the cops do is put him face down on the pavement so they can put handcuffs on him.
That’s not going to help the government when the civil lawsuit is filed.
As a former prosecutor, would it be fair to say you are not all that surprised at the actions of the cops at the scene and their lying when questioned about the incident?
That’s not very Kosher of you to notice...
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