Posted on 10/18/2014 12:56:30 AM PDT by Rabin
On Oct. 22, 2013, a young Latino boy named Andy Lopez was shot by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy. His death was a tremendous loss for our community.
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Andy Lopez was slaughtered. Riddled like many others, while standing, falling, and / or prone, face down.
But a 97 lb, 13 year old boy child, For the final 3 ripps, lay 4 feet from his bb gun.
Sonoma DA; Ravitch "no problem". FBI Quizling, Peter Lee. "no problem". Cal to Mex Citizens, back on your knees.
Fed to Amricans. If you can seem african, the copshot is evil. Otherwise the shoot is cheers. Eric: Top down policy, designed to position vicious cops in power over real cops, help citizens to hate and fear cops, make cops distrust one-another.
Sanoma, recently re-elected Ravivt, & FBI Lee, have opened a free fire zone under the direct control of their masters.
If you live North West of the Napa Valley, Gelhaus is Deputized to shred your kid if (it) simultaneously possesses an un-marked toy, and turns when called upon. This deputy seems trained and maintainrs to shoot from behind. If controls are not established to assure this back shooter he remains in Mex areas of Sanoma, Eric may in passing also legally shoot your kid, regardless of color.
Only in California? Or, rot by design?
Rab can but wounder.
This enrages me
This still enrages me as well. Kid was a sitting duck.
Does anyone have tips on how to find the home addresses of public officials? My research indicates it’s legal to demonstrate very near a private residence as long as you’re on public land (such as a park). We want to encourage Sheriff Freitas to take Deputy Gelhaus off the roads. The kids in this area see Gelhaus as a terrifying figure. :(
“This enrages me”
Gelhaus is an animal, but the “LEO Community” always backs “their own.”
I have family in Petaluma with small children. Men like Gelhaus worry them.
Has the cruiser dashcam video turned up yet? From the pictures of bystanders at the time of the event, the cruiser was pointing right at where this kid was shot.
Or did it get lost like the IRS emails?
Whatever.
Look, it’s a simple scenario.
The boy was carrying an Airsoft gun that fired plastic pellets and was designed to look like an AK-47. It did not have the required orange tip on the barrel to identify it as a toy. Likewise he had a realistic plastic handgun in his belt, also without an orange tip. He had been smoking marijuana about a half hour before, which could have slowed his response time.
The two deputies were in a car and saw him walking down a street. (No mention of *how* he was carrying his Airsoft, which matters. Sling-arms is much less threatening than carrying Port-arms, for example.)
One deputy exited the vehicle, and demanded that he drop his gun (some witness dispute over once or twice).
The deputy fired eight times.
The sheriffs’ deputy has worked with the agency for 24 years. He is an Iraq war veteran. He is a firearms instructor and is a contributing writer to gun publications. He was an instructor for ten years at Gunsite Academy, an Arizona-based company that teaches gun-handling, marksmanship, and law enforcement to “elite military personnel, law enforcement officers and free citizens of the U.S.” He specialized in teaching pistol, carbine, shotgun and rifle lessons.
In his 24 years in law enforcement, he had never shot a suspect until the shooting of Lopez.
FBI investigators said the deputy feared for his safety after Lopez turned around and allegedly raised the pellet gun in his direction. The deputy told investigators that he could not remember if he verbally identified himself as a deputy sheriff, although he was in a deputy sheriff’s uniform and marked sheriff’s patrol car before firing at Lopez.
Truthfully, the case law on this goes back to the Old West. If you reasonably think that someone is drawing a gun on you, intent on brandishing and firing, you can shoot them. It does not matter if they are actually armed.
Likewise, police are taught that if they are firing, to keep firing, not to make the novice mistake of firing once, then looking to see if you hit the target before firing again.
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