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Caught On Tape: Arizona Police Cruiser Runs Over Suspect At 50 mph
It has not been a good month for police "infractions" caught on tape: whether it is a cop shooting an unarmed suspect just because, or a cop shooting an unarmed suspect because "a taser was confused with a gun", the latest grotesque act caught on dashcam is the following video taken on February 19 showing a police cruiser slamming into an alleged crime suspect, Mario Valencia, holding a gun (however not aiming it at anyone and certainly not the police) at a speed of about 50 mph from behind, in what was clearly a move intended to kill the suspect.
Miraculously, the suspect survived. Ironically, the Police in Marana, Arizona, where the dashcam video was taken, claim that they saved the suspect's life. His lawyer, understandably, strongly disagrees.
"Everything in the video seems to point towards an obvious excessive use of force. It is miraculous that my client isn't dead," said attorney Michelle Cohen-Metzger.
That said, the video of the incident has stirred debate about what type of force police should have used to detain a man with a gun.
As CNN recounts, in one video, an officer who was tailing Valencia at slow speed reports over the radio that the suspect has fired one round in the air with a rifle he is accused of stealing that morning from a Walmart.
Another patrol car zooms past, runs into the man from behind then hits a short cinder block wall next to a driveway. Video from Officer Michael Rapiejko's camera shows the officer running the man over and the windshield smashing as the car hits the wall.
"Oh Jesus Christ. Man down," the officer in the first car says.
Police in Marana, which is about a half-hour from Tucson, have justified Rapiejko's actions.
The police, as has now become the norm, will either shoot, or run suspects over, and ask questions later.
"If we're going to choose between maybe we'll let him go a little bit farther and see what happens, or we're going to take him out now and eliminate any opportunity he has to hurt somebody, you're going to err on the side of, in favor of the innocent people," Police Chief Terry Rozema said. "Without a doubt."
At least according to the Police, the suspect was engaged in a series of extended crimes before his read end's fateful encounter with the Arizona police cruiser.
Tucson Police Sgt. Pete Dugan told CNN that Valencia was involved in several incidents in Tucson the day he was struck. At 6:45 a.m., Valencia robbed a 7-Eleven in Tucson with a metal object in his hand. Authorities said he was dressed only in his underwear. He was charged with theft.
A little more than an hour later, police said, Valencia set a fire at a church for which he was charged with arson of an occupied structure.
Just after that he entered a home and stole a car, police said.
Authorities said he drove to a Walmart where he stole a .30-30 rifle and ammunition. He fled the store with Walmart employees in pursuit.
It is here that things get "liquid." Valencia, police said, walked away from the officer, turned a corner and stopped. Valencia pointed the rifle at the officer then walked away again toward a Coca-Cola bottling plant and another business.
None of that is on the tape. What is visible is the next part of the police report: "Brunenkant also said by phone that before Rapiejko's encounter with Valencia, the suspect had pointed the rifle at his head multiple times and threatened suicide before fleeing."
In other words, the driver of the police cruiser decided to take matters into his own hands and potentially kill someone with clearly... suicidal tendencies?
Valencia's attorney was livid: "My client's back was turned and the officer drove right into him," she said. "It isn't that dissimilar to a police officer shooting a fleeing suspect in the back."
However, as recent events have demonstrated, shooting a fleeing suspect in the back is an all too normal occurrence.
Appearing later on CNN, a former NYPD officer Harry Houck said: "What if that (suspect) walks into somebody, maybe taking a potential hostage, maybe just shooting somebody." After a man fires a gun in the air, officers have to make a decision how to detain the man, Houck said. Do they surround him with their cars and get in a gun battle? That would risk the lives of officers and bystanders, he said.
"I'm 100% behind this officer," Houck said.
Well, that's what cops do: they stand behind each other; they only shoot and drive at 50 mph into non-police officers from behind.
Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, told Cooper the suspect had to be stopped but not with a vehicle running into him.
And the understatement of the day: "I have to question this tactic a bit," he said. "I think setting up a secure perimeter and at least making some attempt to negotiate may have been far more efficient."
Then again what has become quite apparent in recent months, is that America's increasingly militarized and weaponized police force, has also become Judge Dredd-ized, and is meant to not uphold the law and preserve the peace, but also to serve as judge, jury and exectuioner all at the same time. And hope that nobody is recording.
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Yes, federal police at the local level is exactly the goal. Remember obama's private army? Its in his "health plan".
I upvoted, Haus.
So after the attempted murder, one member of the Wolverine team would position for infilade fire on the murderer's vehicle while another moves in for the kill shot. A third/fourth would lay covering fire on the next nearest pigthug vehicle.
The only mistake they made was not picking up the spare on this guy a few hours earlier. Immediate threat to himself, and certainly to those around him. Its a tough choice, but this is certainly not shooting an unarmed suspect in the back for a cracked tailight. I'd like to see how you'd react if you were approaching your driveway and a guy with a rifle under his chin was approaching your house. Something tells me you wouldn't hesitate to defend you and yours. Of course those weren't yours so go ahead and try to paint this as another example of bad police work which does happen far too often these days......
PS you do know if the police had pulled thier weapons on this guy he'd be deader than dog shit right? Oh, and have you ever been in a gun fight with someone who has a rifle and you have a pistol and possibly a shotgun at your disposal? Good luck with that too.....
This is an egregious example of excessive force and needless physical escalation. That cop driving the attempted murder weapon deserved a quick dead at the hands of a well-armed citizen.
And are you actually trying to state that pigthugs dont recklessly endanger EVERYONE when they pull their firearm out?!?
Fuck the pigs. They deserve death for their tyranny.
If that guy came walking past my house and I had 30 yards of heads-up, I'd grab my .308 while getting my family into the safe room. .308 in hand, I'd move into firing position taking whatever cover I could find. I would do my best to remain undetected. I'd be expecting the guy to walk on by, and I would not fire my weapon unless the armed walker did 2 things: (1) turned toward my house and (2) pointed his weapon at me.
are there too many bureaucrats in our lives? or am i just being cranky?
leeeeeerooooyyyyy jenkinssss
It sounds like you've got it all figured out. I'll make sure to have all rifle toting maniacs alerted to give you and your neighbors a 30 yard heads up so you can get the fam into the safe room and assume a covered position. That sounds like a well thought out plan. I assume you would have pressed the neighborhood alert button to notify everyone up and down the block too cause they might not be in stealth mode. i just hope that guy sticks to the walking route/plan that he filed with the police so everyone can safely let him walk around until hes too tired and calls it a day. From the sounds of it, I would like to keep you on retainer to take the lead in handling each of these "non-crisis".
"Sir, there's a gunman, wanted for arson and robbery (from earlier today) headed for the local mall, what should we do? You- "Just call over there and have everyone assume a safe position until he's done shopping at Hot Topic". "This shit is just too easy!"
My first impression was WTF is wrong with these Cops! They are no doubt out of control. That was after watching Tyler's version of the video.
Then I watched the longer version on YouTube, and saw the part edited out of Tyler's version, where the guy waves the gun around, not just at himself, then pops off a shot right after a pedestrian walks by.
There was a link posted by Pool Shark to the other version of the video, that has since been scrubbed from the thread, along with all the comments that followed. censorship?
I hate to admit it, as out of control militarized cops have become, I have to defer to the cops discretion in the heat of the moment on this one.
Running the guy over was absurd! But anyone walking down the street with a KNOWN STOLEN AND LOADED rifle, waving it around and ignoring a cops order to stop and put the weapon down, then pops off a shot on a public street while pedestrians are walking by, can expect to be shot multiple times in short order in the North Florida town I live in.
I take care of myself and my family. You take care of yourself and your family. If I like you, we might cooperate. The fuckin' pigthugs make everything worse. As individuals, they are hand-picked for their numbnuts. That is all.
Guess he runs hot and cold.
Too bad the 'suspect' survived. Now the tax payer has to pay for this fool, most likely for the rest of his life as he continues to commit more crimes and goes in and out of jail.
The only true 'rehabilitation' is at the end of a rope....
Bring on the down votes bitchez!
No down from me......
Ahh deerhunter, sorry to hear you lost your brother. Truly.
Some of us suffer profoundly at the sickness of the world around us, and in turn are judged insane by those who prefer to ignore the sickness. This only exacerbates the discomfort of the 'insane'.
There's only one way outta here, your brother simply took an earlier flight.
So a cop should try to negotiate with a criminal running down the street with a gun, meanwhile most of the posters here would run to OSHA if they so much as got a work related blister on their thumb!
Clear the block, get the guy talking, call in the negotiator. It's really that simple.
That's not very simple though, is it? What's really simple is to ventilate all armed thugs threatening the public.
The definition lf 'threatening the public' is a bit nebulous, esse. To my eyes, the pigthugs firing 39 rounds @ the Empire State Building in H2 2012, hitting 9 bystanders, recklessly endangered the public.
In this video, I dont see the walker aiming the weapon at anyone other than himself. So no, this is an example of an armed man who is NOT an immediate threat to others.
He walked for a while, suggesting he is disturbed, not calculating with a target in mind. . .
Good police work between 2 units would have the first unit follow the guy while the 2nd unit gets in front of the guy @ 100 meters. The block gets cleared, and the negotiator is called.
It's not the complete video. There is a point, caught on camera, where he pops one off into the air. The cop following him still was directing other cops to hold back. This one is more of a gray area than a lot of the other ones. The cop who ran him down should still face consequences for not listening to the cop who had eyes on him, but I would have a hard time arguing that they guy was not going to present a danger to others. No, he should not have been run down, but somebody should have, as you suggest, have simply been covering him with a rifle. If you want to make noise about police using lethal force when they shouldn't, I would suggest sticking to cases like this one:
Disagree. Firing one in the air does NOT constitute a danger. A cop firing at a perp? THAT is a danger.
Those bullets come back down. They are just as deadly on the return trip.
Maybe a lesson in physics would be in order...
But why let facts get in the way of people's most carefully crafted bullshit.
Try terminal velocity, translate to FPS, figure he was shooting a 150 grain projo, I bet you wouldn't have enough energy to kill a small dog.
I'm much more scared of a crecent wrench from the top of a building than a 150 grain piece of copper and lead,which if dropped from a 40 story building i doubt it would chip the sidewalk.
But go back to being scared, it's just so merican anymore.
Oh yeah, he already broke into an occupied house. What happens if he takes a family hostage?????
CAll in the negotiator and a REAL sharpshooter. IF. You are living in the world of 'IF'. What IF he detonates a 40 MT nuclear weapon? What IF he drops live smallpox over the nearest city? Here's one for you: What IF he's suffering extreme mental distress but has no real plan to commit acts of violence on himself or others? Your plan is to shoot all the people who get on the bridge with some initial intention of jumping. . . It's nuts.
I call it the '24 syndrome' that FOX originally started pushing in the Bush years. This idea that every situation could possibly lead to the death of thousands so the State should be allowed suspend any/all Constitutional rights for the "greater good".
Fools, all of them. A certain Jefferson quote comes to mind.
What happens if he takes a family hostage and the cops decide not to do anything about it? Because they're allowed to not do anytyhing about it.
This is what happens.
Probation.
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2015/04/black-judge-slams-w...
Who sez you have that much time. The dude is a nutbag with a loaded weapon in a neighborhood. Fuck him.
Sure cops are more assertive and possibly more violent today than in the past. Well you know what----------so are the people that they deal with. US society is in a death spiral and the puppeteers that planed it are watching with glee as we descend into chaos.
This is actually not true.
http://www.armatuscarry.com/uploads/1/5/7/6/15766324/9202973_orig.png?451
I read something a couple years ago that there was an individual who applied to be a police officer but was turned down after IQ testing because his IQ was too high. Is it possible that the testing is putting people into these positions that aren't capable of thinking through situations such as these quickly and rationally?
Had to reduce IQ requirements in order to meet diversity quotas. Any vibrant with a White average IQ would be focused on better things than being a cop. If yo' be black, can read and write, wear a suit, haven't killed anyone - I know this drastically reduces the pool - the world opens up for you. Can even........become President.
Seems quite straightforward.
Was this guy armed and dangerous? Yes.
Was he a danger to other members of the public? Looks like it.
Had the police engaged with him, and warned him to drop the gun or he might be killed without further warning? I don't know.
Did the police make a plan to limit violence, ensuring their safety, the public's safety and the suspect's safety? I don't know.
Did they put such a plan into operation? It doesn't look like it. It looks like one cop acted on the spur of the moment.
Was there a compelling reason for that cop to act in that unplanned way? I don't know, but it doesn't look like it.
Was the action designed to provide minimal violence? No, it was designed to provide lethal violence.
I suspect that the inquiry will go from there....
Oh yeah, the 'inquiry.' Where the pigthug murderer goes on paid vacation while someone near the local justice theater shuffles some papers before 'clearing' the perp of wrongdoing. The pressure is building, folks. You can't just think that everyone is going to dismiss this and look to the next Beyonce album. Folks are pissed. Effective discipline and justice are the tools that should be used here. Incremental corruption will get the entire country into more trouble down the road. High road now, or hell's coming.
Hell is coming if justice isn't served.
http://news.yahoo.com/protests-u-cities-against-police-violence-prompt-a...
So Geezer you have a person that has just committed 4 likley felonies running down the road with a rifle and your solution is for the police to get together and hold a meeting in order to "Create a Plan". RIIIGGGGHHHTTT!!!
Run him for President in 2016?
Wow, looks like the Tylers' censorship is getting a bit out of control today!
lots and lots of missing posts
The Fedcoats are busy on this topic today . . .here @ ZH.
don't know what happened, but a pile of comments just disappeared.
was getting ready to reply to NSA tracked iPhone & poof, comment doesn't exist.
spooks?
.Govbots for shizzle.
This is only a tough call because there is so much of this shit going on. In isolatiion, I go with the cops on this one. All the group think on here scares me.
Yeah, but mobs are fun to be part of. Until someone pokes their eye out.
Of course. Kill the mentally ill.
So far as I can see, the man committed no crime and broke no laws. That cop should be charged with attempted murder.
"So far as I can see, the man committed no crime and broke no laws......"
Really, people like you are the first to complain about crime in their neighborhood but the last to help the police aprehend the criminals. Go back to sleep Mr. I didn't see anything.
Well, what did he do? Open carry is fully legal.
Firstly: He STOLE the rifle.
Secondly: He discharged it at least twice (captured on video)
Lastly- I though this was ZeroHedge? Why is no one making mention of the economic utility cost of mangling a $45,000 police cruiser like that?
Aw shucks. That ain't nuthin'. This here is America.
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Better get that shovel out of your head dude, it's fucking up your brain.
"So far as I can see, the man committed no crime and broke no laws"
Probably because the link to the unedited video that Pool Shark posted in the comments yesterday has been scrubbed from the thread, along with all the comments from those who have bothered to watch the entire video.
Who edited your video Tyler?
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The govt is shutting down ZH.
Sorry about your brother Deerhunter.
And for all you syncophants who like to suck on .govballs, here is how the State is protecting you today. By releasing illegal immigrants who have amassed the following #s of convictions:
The data, released by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte at the beginning of a hearing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana, also showed that the 30,558 criminal aliens ICE knowingly released back into the community in 2014 had amassed nearly 80,000 convictions, including 250 homicides, 186 kidnappings and 373 sexual assaults.
So . . . ooh-rah, good for the thugpis running over a 'threat to all citizens'.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/14/feds-releasing-illegal-immigrant-rapists-murderers/#ixzz3XO4BvY8U
Trigger Alert!
Those are not illegals.
They are UNDOCUMENTED murderers, rapists and kidnappers.
As I said a few posts ago, the puppeteers want the nation to descend into chaos. Releasing more criminals into society is just part of the plan. Soon we will be begging the federal government to replace these "Infective and Dangerous" local police with "Highly Trained" federal storm troopers. Every one of these articles is written with the intent of creating a police state beyond local control.
WTF happened to all of the comments in this and at least one other thread?
Jamie's got a gun...
Wandering around a family neighborhood with a 30-30 ain't winning you any sympathy from me. If you're rational enough to go in a store and steal a rifle and ammo and get away then you're not crazy, you just don't give a fuck.
Economics website. 50 cent bullet vs. thousands for trial and incarceration and thousands for car and wall repair.
I'm gonna figure he's crazy enough to sign up for Obamacare so he's not covered for cop attacks so tack on thousands more for medical. This prick is probably up to $100,000 by now on the taxpayer dime.
In this case, I'd go with the 50 cent solution.
This guy survived. AZ taxpayers are now likely paying his medical bills. Just wait for the excessive force lawsuit. The cop that ran him down should have listened to the cop who was closest to the guy.
Scrub, scrub, scrub your blog, gently off the Web.....
What the fuck? Did you have to restore the damn site from a mirror copy?
Is Hilary now the ZH webadmin?
No, the whole site would have been wiped clean.
the illegal was on a crime spree with a gun. i dont see excessive force. he already proved he was dangerous and he could have killed an innocent person. cops did the right thing.
Um, jesus christ, that's fucking excessive. But, whatever.
Uh... what happened to everything I wrote yesterday?
Very interesting eh. Me too........
So, what happened to the post by Pool Shark linking to the unedited video and all the comments? I smell a rat!
Who edited your version of the video Tyler?
Who is censoring the comments to the best police recruiting video Eva? Mr Durden, are you controlling dialogue now? How alphabet-news agency of you
Tyler, you better have a good one to explain the censorship in this thread. Someone edited the video you linked and removed the part where the guy flashes the gun around and pops off a round.
I would love to believe you didn't know the video was edited, but deleting all the references to it in the comments is very suspicious!
This is BULLSHIT!
Link to video without the convenient edits....
Tyler, Who edited your video?
Tyler, who scrubbed the comments?
Tyler, Who edited your video?
Tyler, who scrubbed the comments?
Tyler, Who edited your video?
Tyler, who scrubbed the comments?
Tyler, Who edited your video?
Tyler, who scrubbed the comments?
Tyler, Who edited your video?
Tyler, who scrubbed the comments?
If you look at the UNCENSORED video, the cops were patient and doing this just right until officer 85 IQ showed up at 50 mph. Sure suprised the shit out of the cop who was doing a good job of managing the situation.
If you look at the video the cop just winged the man on purpose. He had to do it at speed so that there would be no time for the fellow to react. The officer really was brave and knew this would end with his crashing into a wall at speed and possibly injuring himself.
Sorry all you bleeding hearts out there the perp had to be stopped before he shot someone. A deranged man with a gun is a danger to everyone in the neighborhood.
The way I see it, when the pig starts shooting, he HAS to be stopped before he shoots someone unintentionally. Like you say, a deranged man with a gun is a danger . . .
Queue Tyler, ......We've been HACKED!
Sir Tyler.:1314 mandate-you are to report to the Chair and explain WHY you deleted and censored so much from this story, forthwith!
Was it to hide this.:
http://govtslaves.info/national-guard-riot-drill-features-angry-right-wi...
OK, here's is a new twist.: some sheriffs are not going for the bankster UN takeover of the usa using al-CIA-DUH aka isis, or what ever the name of the day is for Americas trained private army of satanist evil murderers. Yeppers, the babylonians have been giving them passports and shipping them over the border for a few years now. They have been planting cells all over the country blending in like the jade helm farkers are and all paid for by American tax dollars It is now being reported that supposedly isis has a training base over the border from New Mexico and Texas and for some time has been training the the revil isis ebel army there to come to the usa andl start the fighting and crazy stuff to instigate martial law. Then, the murderous puppet babylonians will go crazy on the innocent peoples, and then as planed, the people will go crazy.
Here comes the UN forces as planed by kissassenger and co. Farking evil things. It is horrible to see the once proud nation robbed and stripped and then taxed to the max to pay for the very weapons, ammunition, and training that will be aimed right back at them after the planned crash of the dollar. Holy Lord people, you have been repeatedly told what the harking hell is going on for years and yet as a panzi arsed stupefied and ignorant nation, you still sit there on your arse and do nothing to stop this ziosatainnc insanity that will eventually kill every living soul on the planet. HEY YOU SATANICZIO ROTHSCHILD TRASH BUCKETS, THAT MEANS YOU TOO!
So, this is how it ends? Or, is it a new beginning. Kinda like a circle, or cycle, eh?
Freaking babylonians and you Tyler, report now as to why you are stealing comments and censoring here on ZH. Is this the new boss? Steals information and digits on truth speakers, and now also censor this truth?
WTF, OVER??
And how say the crew? Who else is troubled by yet another blatant snatching of truth without some kind of explanation?
Are the babylonians afraid of the truth about american troops training to go to war against their own people as planed by the banksters who own them all?
http://govtslaves.info/national-guard-riot-drill-features-angry-right-wi...
And hers some hot sauce for that tamale senor.:
http://govtslaves.info/colorado-backs-out-of-jade-helm-15-exercise/
These arseholes are going to use their mccain paid for mercenary murderers to come to the usa to instigate trouble to be blamed on just about every real American that believes in the foundations of America. All as planed, of course.
IT SUCKS!
Darn those evil babylonians. Everybody knows that another false flag event can be expected any time and sure enough, it will be those arseholeisis al-CIA-Duh flunkies doing the dirty work to start the war for America. All bought and paid for by the local banksters that want to kill you all hiding behind many masks and smiles.
May God bless and hold close those who serve well and uphold real truth, justice, and the American way that has turned into the greatest shit show on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27HRNm_r4U
Extra Credit.:
Clear!
The comments of your readers apparently didn't fit the narrative, riled your bosses, ah Tyler?
Just shows me, you too are a fake, a propaganda queen under the thumb of a controller, bought and payed for by the NWO!
Who's your handler Tyler, some nit wit with a pocket full of cash and no sole? You likely just call him friend by now, as he hands you another envelope of hush money....
ZeroHedge, just another tool in the pocket of Satan's henchmen.....