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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Couldn’t he shoot him? I was at the park fishing a couple of years ago, and some nonsense with a homeless guy escalated. Some dude started yelling “Shoot him!” and some idiot did.
Strange. All the guy had to do was just walk out of the store. Fighting with the police is not too good an idea.
Gonna go way, way out on a limb here, and speculate that the dude had warrants that were good enough to result in him being taken to the house. Then he had a problem, cause, taking another big speculative leap, he might well have been a felon in possesion of the firearm, and who knows what dope he was holding for his tweaker girlfriend. Chances are this guy has been making bad life choices for quite a few years.
He had the chance, initially, to just go with the program and scoot. There was some small chance that the deputies wouldn't push it and let him leave just to save paperwork. But our man here is not a rocket scientist, and his brain wasn't working too fast. By the time he realized that he could just walk away, his big mouth had already made sure that he was going t spend the night in the hoosgow.
The guy I can't figure is the dork who runs up and decides to involve himself in the scuffle. The deputies were doing fine, and he just added to the confusion.
Your speculation may be right. However there was no way he was going to fight his way free. Futile stupid attempt.
That should be his epitaph.
Should be “well that was not shocking”...but that is the MSM
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