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Today in cops gone feral

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by dixiehack, Sep 1, 2017.

  1. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

  2. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

  3. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

  5. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

  7. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

  8. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Best job in the country.
     
  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

  10. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    If that gang story is true, it's both huge and disturbing.
     
  11. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Maybe equip all of them with a Taser but cut the number of officers with guns by at least half.

     
  12. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Good.

    Nicolas Chavez, already weakened by two gunshot wounds, was on his knees and pulling a Taser toward as four Houston Police Department officers fired a fatal barrage of bullets, according to police video of the encounter.

    The officers involved in the April 21 death — identified as Sgt. Benjamin LeBlanc, officers Patrick Rubio, Omar Tapia and Luis Alvarado — were fired Thursday for what police Chief Art Acevedo said was their decision to fire a combined 21 rounds at Chavez, who was suffering from an apparent mental break and who died following their 15-minute encounter in east Houston. Acevedo determined the fatal shots were “not objectively reasonable.”

    “You don’t get to shoot somebody 21 times,” Acevedo said. “Because, at the time, Mr. Chavez was at his greatest level of incapacitation.”

    Prior to his death, Chavez, 27, had already been shot, stunned and was unable to get up on his own, Acevedo said. The officers, he continued, could have taken two to three steps back when he reached for the spent Taser but instead opened fire.

    “I cannot defend that,” Acevedo continued.

    Mayor Sylvester Turner tearfully said he had watched video of the encounter several times and for most of it, he did not fault the officers for their actions. Watching the eight seconds surrounding Chavez’s death, however, is what led him to question what happened. He concluded that Chavez did not pose an imminent threat to the police officers.

    “He could have lived and could have gotten the help that he desperately needed,” Turner said.​

    'I cannot defend that': 4 officers fired as HPD releases footage of fatal shooting of Nicolas Chavez — Houston Chronicle
     
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