Posted on 04/25/2018 11:52:24 AM PDT by ExTxMarine
“According to an arrest affidavit, Juarez was at a Home Depot in northeast Dallas about 4 p.m. Tuesday when he was acting suspiciously and possibly attempting to commit a theft at the store. An off-duty officer was alerted by loss prevention officer Scott Painter, the affidavit said. Juarez was detained. The off-duty officer then determined Juarez had an active warrant. The off-duty officer called for on-duty officers to come to the location to confirm the warrant.
“Santander and Almeida arrived at the loss prevention office and the off-duty officer confirmed the warrant in the squad vehicle, the affidavit said.
“The off-duty officer was returning to the loss prevention office at Home Depot when he heard “shots fired” broadcast over the police radio. He saw Almeida, Santander and Painter on the ground of the office with apparent gunshot wounds, the affidavit said.
“Body camera footage showed Almeida and Santander were trying to place the suspect into custody when he removed his hands from his pockets, drew a handgun and shot the officers, the affidavit said. Almeida, Santander and Painter were transported to Presbyterian Hospital.”
In 1970? He wouldn’t have made it to the station house. They would have shot him and planted a “drop gun” on him.
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A deputy was killed in Maine last night.
Nah.
Just suspend him by a hoist over a vat of acid.
Honestly did see it in the linked article. I even went back 2 google pages looking for it. The PR probably asked them to scrub it.
You said this initially: “One of the LEOs was off duty, the other was on duty and came in to confirm that he had a warrant out for his arrest. And in all the time between stopping him in the store and waiting for the on-duty cop to show, nobody pinned his hands and took them out of his pockets in a control hold, or frisked the guy. Unbelievable.”
You then posted a bunch of other stuff, but I think you misread it. Here’s the entire sequence of events as reported from the warrant:
“The gunman accused of opening fire at a Dallas home improvement store — killing one police officer and critically injuring two others — was initially detained because he was acting suspiciously and may have tried to steal from the store, an arrest warrant revealed Wednesday.
“An off-duty officer who was working a part-time job at the Home Depot store in the north of the city learned Armando Luis Juarez, 29, had an outstanding felony warrant after he was detained by store officials for suspected shoplifting, according to the arrest warrant.
“Two on-duty officers, Rogelio Santander and Crystal Almeida, were called to the store and, along with a Home Depot loss-prevention officer, were speaking with Juarez in an office. The off-duty officer stepped away, heard a report of “shots fired” broadcast over the police radio and then rushed back to the office to find the officers and loss-prevention employee on the ground with gunshot wounds, according to the warrant.
“Investigators later reviewed police body-camera footage that showed Juarez pulling a handgun from his pocket as Santander and Almeida attempted to take him into custody, the warrant alleges.”
Contrary to your assertion, there was only one off-duty LEO there initially and he was not one of the ones shot. The off-duty officer called in on-duty officers. The on-duty officers were the ones that got shot along with the Home Depot loss prevention security officer.
I would also point out that in most jurisdictions in the US, it is not standard policy for loss prevention personnel to frisk detained shoplifting suspects due to various lawsuits and liability issues. The frisk is usually performed by the police officers when they arrive to take the person into custody.
RIP.
But it is highly hazardous to the health of any and all personnel, including loss-prevention people, to let a suspect who knows he’s a suspect keep his hands in his pockets, which it appears is what happened here. It’s like hanging a big sign saying “shoot me” on one’s forehead. As for the shoplifting procedure, if it turns out all he has are a couple of screwdrivers in his pocket that he wanted to steal and the off-duty or the loss-prevention guys threw him down on account of that, let him sue.
Unfortunately in many states, court decisions have made that the de facto law. Major national chains, like Home Depot, have policies like this as well for all their locations - just like they bar concealed carry by customers and/or employees, etc.
Let the f@#$ing judge apprehend shoplifters, then.
Seems this is a daily occurrence now. We must pray forthe safety ofall ourLEO’s now more than ever before!
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