Posted on 03/05/2022 2:51:33 PM PST by Morgana
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) in California has released shocking body-camera footage of a deputy shooting a man in the head at a Walmart in January after the man allegedly reached for a firearm while being detained.
The wounded, Ernest Paul Aguilar, 30, is recovering in jail and is charged with multiple felonies, “including assault on a peace officer and possession of a gun missing a serial number,” the Los Angeles Times reported. His bail has been set at $2.3 million.
Warning: The video below contains disturbing footage. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
The incident occurred the night of January 19 at a Walmart in Foothill Ranch in Lake Forest, California, after officers were called to the scene at 9:40 p.m., said Ryan Anderson, sergeant of public affairs and community engagement for the OCSD, in the recently released “Critical Incident Video.”
The 911 caller, a loss prevention employee at the store who has not been identified, reported that two men with a “fake receipt” were “shopping around the store,” a 911 call released by the OCSD reveals. The caller noted that they were “grabbing high-ticket merchandise.”
Once at the store, deputies located the loss prevention employee, who pointed out a woman and man as the suspects, and told officers she would like to refuse service to the pair.
When the deputies approached the suspects and told them the loss prevention employee wanted them out of the store, the male subject told them they were “buying” as he held a handful of what appeared to be cash.
The woman who was with Aguilar told KNBC that he had $1,000 on him and intended to pay for the items. The outlet did not identify her by name.
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Doesn’t sound as if there was much “allegedly” about it.
Sometimes it's good to be brainless, getting shot in the head is no big deal.
“Choot’im.”
What a couple of frikkin’ lying thieves.
Why it disturbing?
Stupid man is lucky the cop was a bad shot.
Didn’t disturb me at all . . . in fact, it made me happy . . . even made me a smile a little. Our men in blue doing a fine job.
Why is everything ‘shocking’ these days?
For click$
How can you say that’s a bad shot? He was shot in the head. Normally that’s a kill shot. Isn’t the cop’s fault there was nothing upstairs.
>>Doesn’t sound as if there was much “allegedly” about it.
Or ‘shocking’ - clickbait headline.
At the 1:34 mark on the video,you can see the perp’s gun on the ground next to him.
That's why he was "allegedly" reaching for the gun, instead of "defenseless."
Strange. All the guy had to do was just walk out of the store. Fighting with the police is not too good an idea.
Just a little bit of discrepancy there.
Someone called out “he’s got a gun, shoot him”.
Most likely will be found to be a good shoot, but having a gun probably shouldn’t be enough to get shot in the head. The man was resisting arrest. Why can’t they tase the guy?
Oh well. He FAFO’d. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Not disturbing.
Cops kill whites too easily.
—and , no doubt, much ado about a “ghost gun”-—
“Hes got a gun. Shoot him”
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“Doesn’t sound as if there was much “allegedly” about it.”
Why didn’t it say: “Cop allegedly shoots man who allegedly goes for gun.”
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