Salinas Police fatally shoot strawberry farmer (graphic video included)

[MrScorpio]

California police caught on camera fatally shooting man (VIDEO)

May 21, 2014
Residents of a small central California city are asking for a response from officials after the local police department has been attributed with fatally shooting two suspects in a span of just 11 days this month.

The Tuesday afternoon shooting death of man alleged to have attempted to burglarize a Salinas, CA home and then expose himself to the person inside marks the second time this month — and third time this year — that officers there have come under fire for what some are calling excessive force.

A local newspaper, the Monterey Herald, reported on Wednesday that Salinas residents were responding angrily to the previous day’s incident in light of video footage published online showing local law enforcement officials firing the fatal shots at the man from point-blank range. The victim was not immediately identified by police.

According to the Herald, cops were alerted of an attempted break-in on Tuesday afternoon after a female caller told 911 that a man was not just trying to enter her home, but was trying to kill her dog and had exposed himself.

When police arrived and found the man on an adjacent street carrying a pair of gardening shears, the incident quickly escalated. The Herald quoted Salinas police Cmdr. Vince Maiorana as saying that the man was initially unresponsive when police tried to approach him about the alleged attempted break-in, then began to act strangely.


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[sandpan]

1. Did the cop touch the man with shears?

I think that cop touched the man carrying the shears and then while less than one or two feet away, the cop shot the man. That was murder. WTF is going on in this country?

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Just another day in America.

[MohRokTah]

3. Is there another source for the video?

I won't give RT clicks on Youtube.

[Lancero]

4. Man trys to break into a woman's house, while exposing himself...

He had sex on his mind when he decided to expose himself. It's pretty easy to figure out what he'd have done if he managed to break in.

All in all, a potental rapist off of the streets. For life.

Frankly, I consider this a good thing. Some people are not worth mercy - Rapists, of any kind, are one of them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. You think executing someone without trial for burglary and exposing themselves is good?

What century are you living in - the eighteenth? Fifteenth?

[Lancero]

10. Given the defense of a rapist...

I appear to be in the 21st century.

Lets not kid ourselves here. He had himself exposed. He was attempted to break into a womans house. If you can't see what his ultimate goal was from these two things, then you're delusional.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. No US state has the death penalty for rape; but this isn't even about rape

It's been found unconstitutional:

In 1977, in Coker v. Georgia the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbade the death penalty for the crime of rape of an adult woman; and in 2008 in Kennedy v. Louisiana it ruled the same in regard to rape of a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_regarding_rape

You are leaping to conclusions that exposure means rape, and that your judgement on that should be enough for a man to be killed. You hold life cheap, but think you should have power over it for other people, democracy and civilisation be damned.

[JEB]

5. Judge, jury and executioner.

This should never happen in a free country.

[Egnever]

6. I agree with the girl in the video

This shit is getting out of control. Hell has been out of control I suppose.

Idiots.

It is long past time for these guys to face manslaughter charges at the very least.

[Separation]

7. Raises hand to ask a question.

Who in their right mind see cops with guns drawn on a guy, takes their child and runs towards them?

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. Horrifying.