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Suspect Who Turns His Back & Raises Hands into Air Is Killed by PCSO Deputy
SanTanValley.com ^ | Friday, January 24, 2014 | CBS 5 staff

Posted on 01/27/2014 4:24:18 PM PST by kiryandil

Video of a police standoff contradicts the initial Pinal County Sheriff's Office description of the chain of events that led to the shooting death of a suspected car thief. The man had led police and sheriff's deputies on a chase through Casa Grande and Eloy for nearly an hour, before deputies immobilized the car he was driving.

A witness shot the video on a cell phone. It shows the final moments of the standoff, when deputies were ordering Manuel Longoria to surrender. The deputies had their weapons drawn and fired five bean bag rounds at the suspect, in addition to Taser rounds.

Longoria appeared to be moving his arms around, and did not appear to be cooperating with the deputies. Seconds later, the video shows Longoria turn his back on the deputies and raise both hands into the air, high over his head. One second later, a lone deputy fired two shots, killing Longoria.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: babeu; banglist; carthief; crime; donutwatch; homicide; longoria; pinalcounty; policemisconduct; policestate
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

“...raising your hands in the air is sort of the universal gesture of “I surrender”.

That is the sign!


21 posted on 01/27/2014 4:47:06 PM PST by jocon307
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To: PapaBear3625
Cops fire two shots into him AFTER he raises his hands over his head in a surrender posture. Incredible.

Nah, we got einsteins here who think that means it's fine to kill him by shooting him in the back.

22 posted on 01/27/2014 4:51:35 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: kiryandil
Sheriff of Pinal County:

Isn't the boyfriend cute? He's illegal.

23 posted on 01/27/2014 4:53:59 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: JoeProBono

Shot in the back by police while surrendering.


24 posted on 01/27/2014 4:54:32 PM PST by Delta 21 (If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom. Period.)
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To: kiryandil

Now this one is a legitimate example of police corruption.
And the value of cameras.

Orwell imagined that surveillance would only serve the state. He was wrong, it cuts both ways.


25 posted on 01/27/2014 4:54:58 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: JoeProBono

Those cops should have blown his head off for gawd sake, he stole a car. Geezes...that is a death sentence in many 3rd world countries. (sarcasm)


26 posted on 01/27/2014 4:55:12 PM PST by oust the louse (The Democratic Party might as well be called the Death Party. Abortion & ObamaCare/death panels.)
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To: JoeProBono

Can you tell if any of the Roid Ragin Donut Brown Barrage Balloons are humping each other in their excitement?


27 posted on 01/27/2014 4:55:39 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: freerepublicchat

Yeah. He chose to borrow his sisters car when she said no and she thought she would teach him a little lesson.

Turns out she accidentally taught him to push up daisies.


28 posted on 01/27/2014 4:58:36 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: freerepublicchat
That said, the car thief isn't blameless. There was a moment before the theft when a clear choice was made.

Not sure I'd call someone who stole his sister's car a "car thief".

Maybe a creep brother, perhaps.

I think the Sheriff's department had to make it look like he was some Big Time Crimnul...

29 posted on 01/27/2014 4:59:11 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil

More graduates from the Fullerton Police Academy.


30 posted on 01/27/2014 5:03:12 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: ought-six

He was executed simply and only because the cop wanted to shoot him. He caused the officer some hectic time and the officer desired to shoot him because of that.


31 posted on 01/27/2014 5:03:34 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: freerepublicchat
During and after a chase, few have clear heads.

Right. So, if I'm a citizen in a kerfuffle, and I cap some ner do well, and go to trial and say: "It was HIGH ADRENALINE, FEW HAVE CLEAR HEADS AND I WAS AFRAID FOR MY LIFE!"

I WILL go to jail for lots and lots of years.

Only pigs can get away with that one.

32 posted on 01/27/2014 5:03:43 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: null and void

It looks as if this was a bad shoot. The officer was not immediately cited for heroism or awarded his instant Vacation With Pay.


33 posted on 01/27/2014 5:04:51 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: freerepublicchat

Panicked.


34 posted on 01/27/2014 5:06:11 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus

True, true, but he’s still eligible to 80% retirement for job induced stress...


35 posted on 01/27/2014 5:07:11 PM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I’m a former prosecutor.
That was murder.
No doubt about it.
And what’s equally troubling is that evidently all the other LEOs went along with the story that he was reaching for a weapon (which didn’t exist).
Then the person who videoed the jack booted thugs released the video.
No wonder cops hate it when we video them.


36 posted on 01/27/2014 5:07:33 PM PST by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: kiryandil

Kind of hard to be reaching for a gun with your hands clearly visible and over your head while turning your back to the cops.

A suspect gets shot twice in the back and the first thing the cops do is put him face down on the pavement so they can put handcuffs on him.

That’s not going to help the government when the civil lawsuit is filed.


37 posted on 01/27/2014 5:09:10 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: Clump

As a former prosecutor, would it be fair to say you are not all that surprised at the actions of the cops at the scene and their lying when questioned about the incident?


38 posted on 01/27/2014 5:13:56 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: null and void
odd too since they are both pork... 8^)
39 posted on 01/27/2014 5:21:21 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode

That’s not very Kosher of you to notice...


40 posted on 01/27/2014 5:23:08 PM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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