Posted on 02/01/2006 9:27:22 AM PST by JTN
A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy shot an Air Force security officer late Sunday night after the airman told the deputy that he was in the military and "on your side." A videotape of the incident, which was shot on a residential Chino street about 10:30 p.m., was of poor quality, showing only a silhouette of the deputy and the face of the man who was shot illuminated by the deputy's flashlight.
But the tape appears to show the deputy opening fire as the man was trying to comply with the officer's apparent order to stand up.
Senior Airman Elio Carrion, 21, had been riding as a passenger in a Corvette that was involved in a brief, high-speed chase with the deputy that reached speeds of 100 mph before the Corvette crashed into a fence, authorities said.
The videotape, shot by Chino resident Jose Luis Valdes, shows Carrion sprawled on the ground and repeatedly telling the deputy, "I'm on your side."
The deputy then seems to shout, "Get up!" after which Carrion appears to lean forward. "I'm going to get up, all right?" he says.
The deputy then fires his gun three or four times from about five feet away. "Shut up, you don't get up !" he shouts.
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This POS should be tried for attempted murder.
I hope he spends some quality time in prision and that the family sues the bejezus out of the police department.
I kinda wondered about that, too.
We better start putting cops like this away. We've put up with this kind of bullshite from them for far too long. Now it looks like they are just shooting people whenever they get the urge and they don't seemed at all frightened of any consequences.
I saw the video. Based on what's there, it looks like pre-meditated attempted murder. I don't know what the cop is going to say, but it better be good. Life in prison looks about right to me at this point.
Actually for all the portrayal of the Rodney King riots as being race-based, most of the rioters who were rounded up were hispanic. Those riots were more about opportunism when people saw on TV that the police weren't responding.
"Hispanics are less violent, as a group, than blacks and whites."
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Last three words of the story - "paid administrative leave".
In Texas, we could have legally capped that cop. Texas State Law allows use of dealdy force on LEOs when they use greater than necessary deadly force.
Note to Mindbender twentywhatever: I have no wish to harm LEOs. Let's not start that again.
A true benefit of concealed carry laws is that when common citizens commonly carry, lawmen get in the habit of good manners. The arrogance of being the only legal gun in town disappears.
I am utterly with you.
What is sauce for the goose needs to be sauce for the gander, too.
If there wasn't a video just guess who would be wrong.
Does anyone know whether the original video that I understood was confiscated by the Police Department was ever returned or acknowledged?
Sad, sad, sad yet another example of how Californians hate our Military.
Well, we have had race riots involving illegals. LA and San Diego have had a few.
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The story I hear is that Valdes was stopped 3 times in the first 12 hours after turning the video in, and that his car was searched thoroughly each time. Sounds like someone is trying to discredit him. In Texas, I think the Texas Rangers would've been called in by now.
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