This is another insane story from the new left who don’t want police to defend themselves if a gun is pointed at them. They don’t want police, period.
An armed suspect was fatally shot by Phoenix police on Saturday and it was all caught on the video below. The shooting took place after he pointed a gun at police, according to the police.
It occurred outside a home on July 4, The Arizona Republic reported.
According to the Phoenix Police Department (PPD), officers responded to the home after they received a report that a suspect who was allegedly involved in an aggravated assault one week earlier had returned to the area armed with a knife.
They were directed to and found a male in a vehicle parked in the driveway of the home.
Officers told the man they were investigating an assault case and asked him to exit the vehicle.
He refused, rolled up the window, and armed himself with a handgun.
Bystanders began yelling at the suspect to “put the gun down,” cell phone footage showed.
At least one officer warned the gunman that he would shoot him if he did not comply with their orders.
According to the police, the suspect ignored commands to drop the weapon and raised the gun towards an officer as another officer smashed his passenger side window to distract him.
“One officer saw the gun pointed at a fellow officer and broke the passenger window trying to distract the suspect,” police said.
Two officers fired their weapons, hitting the suspect.
The gunman, identified by Phoenix City Councilman Carlos Garcia and his fellow protesters/agitators as James “Jay” Garcia, was fatally shot during the altercation, The Arizona Republic reported.
He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
RUMORS AND WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE, ACCUSATIONS AGAINST POLICE FLY
Reports circulated that the man was sleeping when they shot him, but the video tells a different story.
“The suspect was not asleep in the vehicle,” PPD spokesperson Sergeant Mercedes Fortune told the paper. “He armed himself which is what lead to the officer-involved shooting.”
Carlos Garcia, the city councilman, said that the shooting was evidence that the PPD is continuing “to respond violently to calls” despite “all the scrutiny from the community.”
“It does not shock us that despite all the scrutiny from community Phoenix PD continues to respond violently to calls,” he alleged in a Facebook post on Sunday. “But, we must all continue to ask for transparency and accountability.”
“The department also issued a premature statement leaving out facts about the case,” the councilman alleged. “We cannot allow for dishonest narratives to be built by violent departments. We will continue to call for independent investigations into officer-involved shootings.”
“I think the fact that it’s not clear who they went out there for was James himself and, by alluding to saying they were responding to something, it made it seem as if he was the one and, from what I can gather at this point, he was not the one they were looking for, to begin with,” the councilman declared.
Steven Merry, who identified himself as a friend of James Garcia, claimed that police shot him for no reason, KSAZ reported.
“They put the gun on his head like this and they’re still telling him not to move, to get his hand off a gun he (didn’t) have and then they shot him again,” Merry alleged. “They made sure he was dead.”
James Garcia’s family’s attorney, Danny Ortega, said that the incident was “another tragic loss in the community involving a police-involved shooting,” BuzzFeed News reported.
Tragic loss?
Watch, but it is graphic:
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Its a really, really bad idea to point a gun at a LEO. End of discussion.
The MAIN PROBLEM I see is POSSIBLY that James is CARLOS’S BROTHER & (therefore, there is a CYA situation for the COUNCIL MEMBER, — and, FOR WHICH he’s TRYING to accuse the POLICE), —
WHO were OBVIOUSLY dealing with BOTH a KNIFE WIELDING individual, as well as also a PISTOL wielding individual — situation! {AND who, it APPEARS from the entire video, was a RELATIVE of the COUNCILMAN}…WHICH creates a VERY STICKY & CONVOLUTED situation for those POLICEMEN!!…
AND! FOR CARLOS!…
{ACTUALLY my question is}: WHAT’S Carlos even DOING THERE???
He SHOULD HAVE gotten out of that situation, since his presence HAD TO HAVE HAD AN IMPACT on JAMES, who IS the PROBLEM!!!
CLEARLY this was NOT an ERROR by the POLICE!!! They were simply TRYING to distract & deescalate the gunman’s actions!! WHEN a GUN is POINTED [CLOSE RANGE], & in the MIDST of a CROWD…
BTW…There ARE VERY CLEAR “R.O.I’s. for such a circumstance…THAT is what those “BODY CAMS” WILL reveal — & expose the REAL circumstances!!! As well as the CROWD’S emotions!!
It doesn’t bode well for officers to enforce any law concerning a minority, might as well let them kill, rob, steal or rape people.
Do you think these DumbAsses will EVER learn to do NOW what the police tell them to do NOW??
Pointing a gun at a Policeman, AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON is just dumb. Why do these rocket scientists NOT learn that?
Is it the Macho-Man mentality from coming from a home where no dad taught them anything? Is it the Street Thuggery to look tough?
Wherever/whatever it’s a shame. We keep seeing The Darwin Theory proven.