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San Bernardino: An Iraq war veteran has testified that a deputy ordered him to get up from the ground twice during a videotaped confrontation after a car chase and then shot him three times when he tried to comply. Senior Airman Elio Carrion said on Monday the deputy swore repeatedly at him as he tried to explain that he was in the military and was not a threat as he lay near the passenger-side door. "I said, 'I'm in the military, I'm in the [expletive] military. Believe me, we mean you no harm'," Carrion testified. "And the officer says, 'OK,...

It would have been so perfect. Rodney King redux! Another chance for the MSM to portray law enforcement as a bastion of white racism using potentially lethal force against an innocent member of a racial minority, with a Good Samaritan exposing the wrongdoing via videotape. But darn it, some of those pesky facts spoiled the script. We're talking of the shooting in Chino, California of Elio Carrion, a U.S. Air Force security officer who had served in Iraq, by a San Bernardino County deputy sheriff after a car chase. The shooting was captured on amateur videotape, which can be seen...