Bodycam Footage of Anaheim Officers Shooting Suspect in California
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https://youtu.be/PEhT5wqn9tY
One Anaheim police officer has been fired and a second is facing
department discipline for shooting and killing a 50-year-old man during a
slow-speed pursuit through a residential neighborhood last July. The
firing comes just after Orange County District Attorney’s Office
Wednesday released alarming and violent dashcam and bodycam video from
the July 21, 2018, shooting of Eliuth Penaloza Nava. According to the
report from the DA’s office, officers Sean Staymates and Kevin Pedersen
fired on Nava a staggering 76 times. “The fact that the two involved
officers discharged their weapons 76 times, from a moving patrol car at
Nava’s moving car, at approximately 9:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning, in a
residential neighborhood where residents, including children, were home
and on the streets, was alarming and irresponsible based on the
totality of all the circumstances in this specific case,” Deputy
District Attorney Scott Wooldridge wrote in his analysis.
While Wooldridge found that the officers acted irresponsibly, he determined
there was “a lack of sufficient evidence” to bring criminal charges
against the officers. Later Wednesday, Anaheim police announced that one
of the officers had been fired and the second was facing discipline. On
the morning of July 21, the officers were called to a home in the 500
block of W. West Street on a report from Nava’s family that he was
acting erratically, appeared to be on drugs and may be armed. Officers
arrived to find him sitting his car, which was parked outside his
family’s home. He then drove away, prompting a slow-speed chase. During
the pursuit, the officers saw him waving a gun and opened fire on him
throughout the pursuit. It was later determined that Nava was in fact
carrying a CO2 air pistol BB gun. An autopsy determined he sustained at
least nine gunshot wounds.
Completely ridiculous, they are not fit to serve at all and need to adhere to real prison time.
Until these "bad apples" actually start being hold accountable, trust in the U.S police will keep getting worse. I've met kids in elementary schools during volunteer work in the hood and they fear cops more then the violent gangs around them.
Shooting so many rounds at this guy and still at the end
"He's done he's done"
*Continues to shoot, probably resulting in the fatal blow*
Just wow.
I want to know the backstory. How did this escalate into justifying the need to use a rifle to take down a perp? Did they receive calls that someone was going around with a gun waving it at people?
No matter how you slice it though, firing out of a moving vehicle with a weapon is fucking unacceptable. 5.56 penetrates a lot of material. You can shoot it at any house and it'll punch right through most walls and hit someone on the other side. Shoot it at a car and it'll go through one door and out the other. What the fuck were they thinking?
You can read the DA's report for a longer explanation
http://orangecountyda.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=23754
DA report is in the video link.
Basically family went to go visit this guy because of suspected drug use. Situation leads to family member going near his truck, family member saw a gun and knife. A member of the family has violent history with the guy. Guy goes to his truck and family is worried that guy is going for family member.
Family calls the cops, notified them that guy has weapon. Cops find his car, try to pull him over. Apparently this doesn't happen, cops say they saw him digging at the floorboard and see a gun in hand as he is waving it out of the window and they saw the gun pointed at the roof of the truck. They chase him then we see the video as the whole situation unfolds.
I get that guy had a gun at the time and they couldn't have known it was a co2 gun. But fuck, did it really need to be engaged that way? To me I understand the fear the cops had about this guy potentially going on his way to kill someone. However, their actions were equally as reckless. They fired in busy streets and suburbs.
The report adds a lot of context to the whole situation. Doesn't change they acted terribly.
I figured it would just be excessive force used after he stopped judging by the thumbnail but good lord driving while firing a pistol like that through suburban streets and then even telling his partner who has a damn rifle to "start firing" in a moving car? Wouldn't be hard to guess which of those two officers is the one that got fired.
Is it normal for patrol officers to carry assault rifles now? The fuck.
This just kept getting worse and worse, holy cow. how did this maniac make it through the academy
i feel like all these cops saw that one video of that marshal shooting through his windshield and realized they can justify it too
It is since 1997.
Read up about the Hollywood bank robbery / shooting.
I struggle to care anymore, nothing will change within our lifetime. This is now the status quo regarding cops in court, probably always was.
WIth the amount of rounds, he's just looking for someone to murder
I mean it goes beyond what regular cops would use on a suspect.
Fucking Cowboy here with modern firearms, just fuck off back to your own time period please and stop making everything worse for everyone.
The real question here is, will anything actually come of this in the way of this idiot getting jail time or having to you know, answer for his stupidity?
One Anaheim police officer has been fired and a second is facing department discipline
Well that's an improvement over how these things usually go.
also unless they're sheriffs, local departments don't provide them, officers have to pay with their own money to get an ar-15, otherwise they just get their standard issue handgun and maybe a shotgun in the car.
No.
While Wooldridge found that the officers acted irresponsibly, he determined there was “a lack of sufficient evidence” to bring criminal charges against the officers.
But they unloaded on someone with an airsoft gun in a residential area, how is that not enou- what?
Their actions were reckless, but they also thought he had a real gun. The family member call it in and stated he had a gun. The subject waved the gun out of the window. The cops as stupid as they where, thought this guy had a real gun.
Okay, the shooting through the window while driving was pretty retarded. Holy shit
Just gonna give a small count here:
Firing from within and outside of a moving vehicle, in an erratic means, escalating the situation,
Firing at a moving vehicle in a suburban area, where bullets are likely to go off into nearby buildings/vehicles from ricochets.
Execution via firing squad even when the guy was clearly incapacitated from his wounds.
Seriously, what the fuck.
When you point a gun at a cop, you get shot. Why is that so difficult for people to understand?
somehow i dont think he was pointing a gun at them anymore after he'd been hit by a few dozen bullets
76 shots fired
what in the fuck
There was a bank robbery in LA circa...IIRC 1992...where the robbers wore full kevlar bodysuits and carried fully automatic AK47s. They were totally impervious to 9mm and .38 Special(Which was still in limited use at the time) and were dropping responding officers like it was a round of Payday II. The cops had to go to a nearby gun store and grab a bunch of AR-15s to deal with the situation because, at the time, what they were issued was insufficient.
Before that, you almost never saw a cop with an assault rifle. If you did, it was a spec ops officer, like SWAT or DEA. After that, departments started rolling them out into the Force, and these days most have one either in a shotgun mount in the cabin or in the trunk of their patrol car.
Why is it so difficult to understand that shooting erratically through your windshield at another driver through a residential area like it’s GTAV is a HORRIBLE fucking idea?
A defeatist attitude will definitely ensure we won't see any change in our lifetimes.
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