This is ridiculous! The police officer in this story shot a man who was drunk, had a knife and wouldn't put it down, had been threatening people with that knife, then raised it above his head and lunged at the officer! And now people are mad that the cop defended himself and THEM and shot the drunk.!
"The officer who did this should be subject to discipline and a thorough investigation," said Juan Flores, 39, a cook at a downtown restaurant who knew Jamines. "We want to know, is he on vacation or is he fired?"
Sounds like a well-justified shoot to me. If there was blood on the knife I'm sure the officer saw it. If anyone ran at me with a knife, especially a bloody one, I'd have shot them more than twice.
"Killing a drunk isn't right," said Juan Jaminez, also a day laborer.
Mas Ayoob has often written about how police have confronted violent knife-wielding attackers and survived sometimes with horrific injuries. It is a known fact that an experienced knife fighter is easily as lethal as any gunfighter if he is within arms' length and knows where to stab or slash......I think this case will get exonerated in court eventually....
Yep, I live in Mesa, AZ off of Val Vista and Southern, 3 miles up the road off of Gilbert and Broadway there are always like 30-50 day laborers just hanging out on the corner waiting for work, and if a police officer pulls into the gas station on the corner, they all slowly make their exit...
This is ridiculous! The police officer in this story shot a man who was drunk, had a knife and wouldn't put it down, had been threatening people with that knife, then raised it above his head and lunged at the officer! And now people are mad that the cop defended himself and THEM and shot the drunk.!
But he was an immigrant! Don't you know that an immigrant is exempt from being shot in self defense?
Seriously, that is what all the rioting is about. The drunk with a knife was an immigrant and now the other immigrants in that area are using that as an excuse to riot.
Interesting that none of the news reports I have seen have so far mentioned whether he was here legally or not. I have my guess.
Maybe cities and counties all over the country that are having illegal immigration problems should hire Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Maricopa County Deputies as a contractor and just do a bunch of immigration sweeps in the problem areas!
sounds like a bad mistake on the drunk guy's part, I'll be looking for the details, distances involved, breakdown, etc on this incident in the coming months
LAPD brass vows to investigate fatal shooting of day laborer = we are trying to empathize with the protesters instead of saying our officer stopped a direct threat to his life and the other people around them,
no justification for anything other than the standard investigation of shootings per dept policy; no mandate to use taser or any other LTL force.....deadly weapon presented, deadly force used....period
for those that want to protest or don't like it.....tough....tell people to quit getting drunk and coming at a cop with a raised knife and this crap won't happen
A drunk with a knife is just as dangerous as a drunk with a car. ALL police shootings are investigated, and with LAPD's history, I'm sure the LEO involved will be back on the beat.
The LA pd should thank it's lucky stars that the officer in question is also Latino or there would be a bigger stink. Officer Hernandez has my sympathy.
Heard on the radio that the guys prints came back with 3 different names. Even LA mayor (Villagrosa), who is pro-illegal alien is defending the officer. Nobody here can understand why the agitators picked this shooting to take a stand on as it was clearly a good shoot. They could have waited a week and jumped on another officer involved shooting that was less clear cut.......kind of strange.
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