Killed in seconds: why did the FBI shoot Jonathan Cortez in an Oakland corner store?

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/jonathan-cortez-fbi-shooting-oakland

Killed in seconds: why did the FBI shoot Jonathan Cortez in an Oakland corner store?


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Killed in seconds
Surveillance video recorded from across the street on the day Cortez was killed shows an officer drive up in what appears to be an unmarked car to the Upstairs Underground Smoke Shop, the corner store on Fruitvale Avenue below Nguyen’s apartment.


The grainy footage, which was shared with the Guardian, shows the officer running in with his gun drawn. More cars with officers pull up.

An FBI spokesperson later said the officer shot Cortez eight seconds after entering the store.

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The Oakland police department, which is investigating the killing and has footage from inside the shop, refuses to release it. The department declined the Guardian’s request for comment.

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‘They are harassing our family’
Since the shooting, various members of Cortez’s family have alleged both state and federal law enforcement agencies have mistreated them.

[Igel]

1. Report wants me to form an opinion based on ignorance.

A winning strategy. And a weaselly one.

Take this sentence. Earlier, the person was just "an FBI agent".

The FBI has said it wasn’t running the effort, and its agent was deputized to work for the US marshals service and was a regular member of its regional “fugitive taskforce” that was targeting Cortez.

Two "its". The first "its" says that the agent was an FBI agent. The possessor is "FBI." The second "its" refers to the owner of the taskforce--that's not the FBI. The agent was an FBI agent. But at *that* moment he was off duty as FBI agent, and wasn't an FBI agent at all. So who was he? He was a US marshal's deputy.

That pointed out, it's obvious. Read quick, and you get the lie in the title. Read the lie in the title uncritically, and you think that the FBI shot Cortez. But the Guardian's unmistakable in its testimony: The FBI didn't shoot Cortez. The Guardian's egregious in trying to mask that, but it says, without doubt, that the person was at other times an FBI agent but at that time of the shooting was working in his capacity as a deputy of the US marshal service.

What's left are the questions about what happened during those 8 seconds after the US marshal deputy, with warrants to execute, left the camera's viewfinder and the shots were fired. Apparently he and the shop owner ran. Is that all? Would they say if there was more? What was said? Done? Do I know any of this info? Not in the least.

Would the shopkeeper protect his son, shading the truth? Would the son not tell the truth? Sure. Did either? Dunno.

Don't need to judge, so why bother? i already feel manipulated to reach the Correct View by the Guardian, so I don't know that I trust the reporter to tell me what I need to know to form a reasoned opinion instead of the expected one.

[Celerity]

2. K & R for visibility

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3. So, where's the video, Oakland PD?

It surely would show the suspect brandishing a gun.