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savalez

(3,517 posts)
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 10:57 PM Oct 2014

Latino ex-lawmaker held at gunpoint for honking

Arizona cop wanted ‘any reason to shoot us’



A former Arizona state senator explained this week how a police officer threatened to kill him after he honked at an unmarked van to avoid a traffic accident.

Armando Ruiz told KPNX that he was on his way to church on Monday night with fellow churchgoer Monica Rivera when 51-year-old police officer Jeremy Sweet cut him off in the unmarked van.

Ruiz, who spent nine years in the state House and one year in the state Senate, said that he honked and swerved to avoid a collision, and then Sweet slowed down to about 10 mph, allowing him to pass. That’s when the officer tried to “ram” him. According to Ruiz, the officer eventually pulled around him, and forced him to stop. He then saw Sweet pointing a handgun at them through the passenger-side window of the van.

Ruiz wrote down the license plate number, and called 911. The officer was later identified as a Phoenix police officer. Sweet was arrested on Tuesday, and was being held on one count of aggravated assault.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/latino-ex-lawmaker-held-at-gunpoint-for-honking-arizona-cop-wanted-any-reason-to-shoot-us/



The officer said, "be careful who you honk at" as he drove off. Mr. Ruiz said that he attended the hearing so that the officer can see what "good people look like."
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Latino ex-lawmaker held at gunpoint for honking (Original Post) savalez Oct 2014 OP
If black or brown seems a lot of cops want to shoot folks down for not too good of reasons lately lunasun Oct 2014 #1
Yep. savalez Oct 2014 #2
Right if they had yelled what are you doing ? or got out of the car > bang lunasun Oct 2014 #3

lunasun

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1. If black or brown seems a lot of cops want to shoot folks down for not too good of reasons lately
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 11:11 PM
Oct 2014

That is if they have any reason at all !

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
3. Right if they had yelled what are you doing ? or got out of the car > bang
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 11:21 PM
Oct 2014

Because you know altercation

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