Posted on 10/05/2013 6:11:02 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A dashboard camera in a state trooper's car has captured the dramatic moment a father taking his children on a road trip pulled out a gun and shot an officer who then returned fire and killed him.
John Van Allen, 34, was driving with three of his children when he was pulled over on Interstate 84 east of Portland, Oregon by Trooper Matt Zistel, 26, for speeding.
But what was supposed to be a routine traffic stop soon escalated into violence when Van Allen emerged from the car and, despite Zistel urging him to get back inside, pulled out a gun......
The dramatic footage was released to The Oregonian after a public information request from the paper following the August 29 death.
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I don’t get why the the perp chose to try and take the cop out on a routine traffic stop.
and to think he had his 3 kids with him.
He obviously wanted to kill a cop.
Outstanding warrant/s?
It’s not a justification, but I don’t think it’s as simple as that.
It will be interesting as the underlying story comes out.
Paraphrase, He would never shoot at the law. He wouldn’t miss the kill shot? Relatives are always more right than video evidence.
Not a Trayvon wannabe, he now IS identical to Trayvon.
Scary video, but at least it had a happy ending.
“I don’t get why the the perp chose to try and take the cop out on a routine traffic stop.”
Routine traffic stop?
Dat officer be hunting him.
Dat officer be after his Skittles.
He can’t be making no purple drank without his Skittles.
That is certainly a possibility.
“I don’t get why the perp chose to try and take the cop out on a routine traffic stop.”
Cops formerly would stop people who were doing dangerous things. Sure, they still wrote speeding tickets, but not as many as now. But the number of cops on the road is probably triple what it was a few years ago and they’re stopping people around here at 6-7 miles over the limit. This is a huge burden on people who probably can’t afford the $150-350 tickets. I’m not justifying the shooting but I believe cops are now seen as oppressors. Any good feelings people had for police have evaporated in the light of excessive enforcement, no-knock raids and senseless dog shootings.
I’d hate to be a cop today. I’d be looking for another job.
Whoa.
Words fail me. These people are not salvageable.
I certainly agree with you that states have come down far to hard on the speeding issue. In my province, vehicles can go up to about 6 miles over before they get tagged, which is reasonable in my mind.
I think that's why the Oregonian forced the police to release the dashcam video. They didn't and couldn't believe that someone would do such a thing -- but there it is.
And did you read the family's comment at the end -- basically saying that if it happened as the officer said then the officer would be dead not him, since he wouldn't miss.
Thank You Dashcam --
Chance to kill a cracker?
Interesting how the family trots out the usual garbage, even in the face of the video.
“’He would have never shot at a police official or anyone of the law,’ his cousin, Will Wright III,”
>>He obviously wanted to kill a cop.
I think this is just another example of the New Black Anger. They elected their Messiah 5 years ago and he has systematically destroyed the country for that whole time, and they have suffered from the results of his actions far more than whites. But, their “leaders” tell them that everything is still whitey’s fault, so they are lashing out homicidally.
Their god has proven to be even less than a man and it is making them crazy.
The same is true for white leftists (I know one who actually went crazy in 2011 over it), but they aren’t predisposed to violence like blacks, so they just go on major anti-depressants.
:-/
The guys an idiot and deserves what he had coming to him, but he never should have been pulled over in the first place. He was going 76 mph on an Interstate. It must have been cop ticket quota time.
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