Posted on 09/29/2022 11:22:03 AM PDT by Signalman
Arizona police shot a suspect to death after he pointed a handgun at a police dog’s head, video shows.
The Tucson Police department released body cam footage Tuesday of Francisco Javier Galarza aiming a semi-automatic at a K9 named Kiro, as the dog brought the runaway suspect to the ground.
Police instantly opened fire on the man, killing him with several shots.
According to the department, Galarza was wanted on a felony arrest warrant for home invasion and bank robbery.
The 49-year-old was spotted entering a convenience store just before noon on Aug. 25. Police confronted him in the parking lot, but Galarza immediately tried to run away.
“Police! Get down!” Officers can be heard telling Galarza several times in the video as he runs.
Officer Barry Peterson, a 15-year veteran, released Kiro, who tackled Galarza to the ground.
In 2000, Galarza was convicted of vehicle theft. A year later, he was convicted on six counts of robbery armed and armed robbery and received an 11-year sentence. Upon release, he was convicted of armed robbery again and sentenced to another 7.5 years.
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True, they are trained to have total loyalty to the officers, not others unless the dog retires.
We don’t. Trained police dogs are given special status as a result, other dogs are not. But you knew this.
I only feel sorry for the dog. Hope he’s ok. Bravo to the officer.
“He chose... POORLY!”
You are correct.
This is why Antifi doesn’t have a big presence in AZ.
Its a great way to end up dead.
If we take the dog out of the picture, the headline could have been cops shoot perp with drawn firearm, and that wouldn’t be all that controversial.
So they just kept letting him out and every subsequent crime got more egregious. We need some career criminal laws on the books that keep these criminals out of society, but our justice dept seems to be working in the other direction.
No justice, no peace and no safeguards for us, then no safeguards for them either.
“They are.....a K-9 officer is no different than a human one.
The idiot might as well of pointed it at the cop.”
Worth repeating They are in fact officers of the law
Glad they’re wearing body armor
Some animals are more equal than others.🙄
It’s a DOG, people!!!
Bite me.
A suspect who draws a gun during an arrest will probably get shot. He will aim it at the human officers next.
This shooter got 30 rounds of 5.56 mm in him for wounding Bruno, the Anaheim police dog. Two of our rescue dogs helped save his life by donating blood.
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Dog-1. Bad guy-0. Fido wins
Tucson Mayor, Regina Romero, hates cops and is a notorious lefty. A couple of years ago she tried to gin up her own George Floyd incident against her own police. She won’t like this at all. Wonder what she’ll do.
APPARENTLY, HE DIDN'T LOOK UP...
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