Airman Is Shot After Brief Chase

Los Angeles Times ^ | January 31, 2006 | Lance Pugmire and Michelle Kelle

[TSgt]

This POS should be tried for attempted murder.

I hope he spends some quality time in prision and that the family sues the bejezus out of the police department.

[B Knotts]

I kinda wondered about that, too.

[CanisRex]

This disgusts me. I have only once met a LEO who didn't approach me as if I were a suspect in some crime anytime I've come in contact with them and I've never even got a parking ticket.

Granted, this guy was in a car with someone who was running from a cop but being shot 3 times at close range for doing what the cop apparently asked him to do is insane.

I hope he (the cop) goes away for a very long time.

[ladyrustic]

We better start putting cops like this away. We've put up with this kind of bullshite from them for far too long. Now it looks like they are just shooting people whenever they get the urge and they don't seemed at all frightened of any consequences.

[mugs99]

Whay aren't Hispanics burning their own neighborhoods right now?

Hispanics are less violent, as a group, than blacks and whites.
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[San Jacinto]

I saw the video. Based on what's there, it looks like pre-meditated attempted murder. I don't know what the cop is going to say, but it better be good. Life in prison looks about right to me at this point.

[JTN]

Hispanics are less violent, as a group, than blacks and whites.

Actually for all the portrayal of the Rodney King riots as being race-based, most of the rioters who were rounded up were hispanic. Those riots were more about opportunism when people saw on TV that the police weren't responding.

[CodeToad]

"Hispanics are less violent, as a group, than blacks and whites."


You forgot the sarcasm tag.

[elkfersupper]

they don't seemed at all frightened of any consequences.

Last three words of the story - "paid administrative leave".

[FNG]

In Texas, we could have legally capped that cop. Texas State Law allows use of dealdy force on LEOs when they use greater than necessary deadly force.

Note to Mindbender twentywhatever: I have no wish to harm LEOs. Let's not start that again.

[Monterrosa-24]

A true benefit of concealed carry laws is that when common citizens commonly carry, lawmen get in the habit of good manners. The arrogance of being the only legal gun in town disappears.

[Spirited]

I am utterly with you.

What is sauce for the goose needs to be sauce for the gander, too.

If there wasn't a video just guess who would be wrong.

Does anyone know whether the original video that I understood was confiscated by the Police Department was ever returned or acknowledged?

[mugs99]

Those riots were more about opportunism

As are just about all riots. Looters used to be shot. There was less "rioting" then.
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[mugs99]

You forgot the sarcasm tag

LOL...I was thinking of race riots. We've had many in America, but none of them have been rioting hispanics.
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[angelsonmyside]

Sad, sad, sad yet another example of how Californians hate our Military.

[CodeToad]

Well, we have had race riots involving illegals. LA and San Diego have had a few.

[vrwc0915]

ping to merge later

[vrwc0915]

Much more info here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569430/posts

[TankerKC]

I know how we can prevent this. Let's give the Sheriff a grant from Homeland Defense funds. Enough so that he can by a tracked vehicle with armor and some really cool camouflage uniforms (the new ones like the Marines and Army are trying to get fielded) for all of his Deputies.

[hispanarepublicana]

I commend the brave Chino resident Jose Luis Valdes! The out-of-control deputy could just as easily have turned on Valdes if he had also see him as the enemy.

The story I hear is that Valdes was stopped 3 times in the first 12 hours after turning the video in, and that his car was searched thoroughly each time. Sounds like someone is trying to discredit him. In Texas, I think the Texas Rangers would've been called in by now.