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FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 08:10 AM Nov 2013

Cop’s History an Issue in Toy-Gun Slaying [View all]

Anyone want to say all 5 Eyewitnesses are wrong


Cop’s History an Issue in Toy-Gun Slaying

“With the media coverage and the tsunami of attention that the Lopez lawsuit has received,” said Casillas, “folks are coming to us from everywhere with stories about his repeated instances of recklessness. We are recording stories as far back to the mid-Nineties that indicate his reckless use of firearms … and the shocking part about all of this is that he is the firearms expert, the instructor. In other words Gelhaus lays down the foundation as to how other sheriff deputies are going to be exercising the use of force and that is truly shocking.”

Casillas said five eyewitnesses – four people in a vehicle immediately behind the patrol car and a man in front – said the fatal incident began when the patrol car accelerated into the intersection and crossed into the opposing lane of traffic. The police officers screamed out a command as they were exiting the cruiser and opened fire on Lopez, possibly in a matter of only two or three seconds, Casillas said, adding:

“Our forensic evidence suggests that Andy was shot as he was turning to his right, as the officers called out to him. The first bullet hit in the chest, literally went right through his heart. And it killed him. The police officer continued to shoot as Andy fell, and as Andy was on the ground.”

“We do know that the important sequence, the calling out a command to the shooting, was just two to three seconds,” Casillas said. “The two women behind the patrol car said that they [the deputies] were shooting as they were getting out of the patrol car. Andy wasn’t given a chance to respond or react.”


http://consortiumnews.com/2013/11/21/cops-history-an-issue-in-toy-gun-slaying/


This thing just get worse every time a little more truth slips out from behind the narrative the Sonoma County Sheriff to the media

Kuddos to all the Media around the nation and the world for never looking any further then the AP wire - which in this case was merely the Sheriff's Talking Points
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