Article full of crap references and insinuations. Just because the Holy Paul Family is referenced doesn’t mean it’s Libertarian. There’s more AntiFa than libertarian here.
Was stopped by Phx police while riding a bicycle at night many years ago. Had never before or since experienced this.
The word “civilian” used in this story, would have been “citizen” until the last few years.
Interesting mindset change.
The 17 year old had a gun?
Threw it away after fleeing but still....
Sad situation. I sympathize with both sides. OK, the kid is just 17 years old...yet, why is he “scared” of the police and why is he running away? He tries to escape on foot and even jumps a fence in his attempt to flee. I watched the video and the encounter at the moment of the shooting is one of those “split second decisions”. Why does the 17 year old have a gun? Sure, MAYBE he was trying to “throw the gun away” but in the split second one watches the video, if you were the cop, could you have instantly determined that the kid’s handling of the pistol was to toss it away or use it to shoot you? I know that I could not know for sure. I also know that I would have difficulty determining to wait to see what the kid’s handling of the gun was going to be when my life is at stake. Also, the second shot is almost instantaneous after the first one. Aren’t cops taught to double-tap anyway? I don’t believe the cop deliberately “put him down” as described by this journalist. Finally, why is the town just surrendering $1 million to this family? I think a jury trial first would have been more appropriate.
I sure hope the family of Ryan Whittaker gets justice this swift. A Chandler policeman executed him in cold blood last year when he answered his door late one night. He had a gun in his hand but was complying with the order to put it down when a trigger happy cop shot him from behind. The video is extremely disturbing, but it shows that the cops failed to identify themselves when they knocked. They also refused to render aid as he lay there dying.
Just wait until you see the bad shoot (some say execution) of Hunter Brittain by Lonoke Sheriff in AR......oh wait...the cop turned off his personal camera before the encounter and turned it on after the counter.
Someone made the bad decision to ride around with a gun in his pocket, then run from the police, and the gun falls out of his pocket. On top of all that he tries to pick up the guy he dropped.
“Awards”? This was a contest or something?
If you’re going to excerpt a blog, maybe don’t end the excerpt at a cliffhanger. I don’t have an opinion on this case, but more information should get posted if you’re going to post about it. Since the blog isn’t on the excerpt-only list, I’ll just post the remainder, which isn’t very long and is from mostly other sources. Now FReepers can see the remainder without it being clickbait.
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According to 12 News,
12 News obtained a copy of the redacted Chandler Police General Offense Report which revealed Bebak-Miller had a civilian passenger in his patrol car the night of the shooting.
The report states around 9:00 p.m. Officer Bebak-Miller picked up someone for a civilian ride a-long and that civilian claimed he “exited the patrol vehicle” during the foot pursuit.
It was also reported that just 8 months prior to killing Anthony, Bebak-Miller had been shot in the leg, potentially setting off some post traumatic stress.
“I don’t know if this was a mistaken identity, or angry officer, or a traumatized officer being that he was shot. Maybe he wasn’t ready to come back to work? I can’t tell you all those questions. There is so many things unanswered,” Eva Cano said.
In a statement to 12 News, the family’s lawyer Greg Kuykendall called the incident “profoundly troubling” and says “none of this is normal.” Kuykendall says the fact he was shot a second time as he lay face-down on the ground “mandates an investigation by the federal government.”
Indeed, the details of this case are very troubling. As TFTP reported, on the night of January 2, Anthony was riding his bicycle down the road when Bebak-Miller decided he needed to stop the teen because he did not have the proper lighting. Moments later, he’d have two bullet holes in his back—the second shot fired as Anthony lie facedown on the ground, his gun 10 yards away.
As the graphic body cam shows, Anthony attempted to flee on the bicycle before dropping it and taking off on foot.
“He’s fleeing on foot,” said the officer in the footage.
Body camera footage shows the officer in pursuit of the boy just before Anthony drops his gun. As he is about to surrender, Cano picks up the gun to throw it away so he doesn’t get shot. He successfully threw the gun away but was shot in the back anyway.
The portion of the video showing the gun at least ten yards away from Cano was redacted from the original release. It is damning and proves that Bebak-Miller had no reason to kill this child.
“Drop it! Get on the ground!” the officer shouts.
After Cano threw the gun, the officer then shoots him in the back.
At this point, the child is clearly incapacitated—not even moving—and the threat is neutralized. However, for good measure, as the teen lies dying on the ground—with the gun now 10 yards away—the cop puts another round in his back in a seeming attempt to finish him off.
In the new and heartbreaking video, Cano is heard explaining himself to the officer as he struggles to breathe.
“Hey, put your hands behind your back!” Officer Bebak-Miller shouts as Cano can barely move after being shot twice.
“Hands behind your back!” Officer Bebak-Miller shouts again.
“I’m sorry, sir, I can’t,” Cano says.
Cano slowly but eventually gets his hands behind his back.
“Keep them there,” the officer says. “I want to help you, OK! I want to help you!”
“OK,” Cano says. “I can’t breathe.”
“Handcuff me, hurry,” said Cano. “I don’t want to die.”
At this point, Cano explains that he was surrendering so he wouldn’t get shot. Unfortunately for Cano, however, Bebak-Miller either never saw him throw the gun away, or he didn’t care, and shot him anyway.
“I just wanted to throw the gun away,” Cano says.
“Well, I thought you were pulling it on me, man,” responds Bebak-Miller.
“No, no, no,” said Cano.
“It was f**king stupid,” says the officer.
“I tried throwing it so I wouldn’t get shot,” Cano says.
As other officers arrive, the life starts to fade from the teen’s body.
“I can’t feel my legs,” says Cano.
Cano died three weeks later in the hospital.
For two months, police let Cano’s family, and the public believe that Cano was a threat to the officer when he was shot. However, the unedited video released in March proves that this was not true at all and anything other than a murder charge against this cop would be a travesty of justice.
Rene Clum, Cano’s mother questioned the entire reason for the stop in the first place, saying her son should’ve never been targeted.
“He was scared, coming home. He wasn’t doing anything wrong other than riding a bike without a light.”
This article was originally featured at The Free Thought Project and is republished with permission.
“It has been over six months since officer Chase Bebak-Miller shot and killed 17-year-old Anthony Cano...”
Unlike Chase Babak-Miller had no gun either in the first or tenth paragraph. Any money coming to her family?
Pure comedy gold...or just a load of BS. The kid was killed, right? So how does the author know his motivation for picking up the gun? Not picking up the gun for any reason would've been the logical move to avoid getting shot.
Ooops. Strike the above. Seems there was recorded dialogue after the kid was shot. My bad.