Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy — described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled — as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows.
Seventeen-year-old Victor Perez, who also has cerebral palsy, remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after having nine bullets removed from his body and having his leg amputated, Ana Vazquez, his aunt, told The Associated Press. Doctors were planning tests on his brain activity.
The shooting Saturday in Pocatello outraged the boy’s family and neighbors as well as viewers online who questioned why the officers opened fire within about 12 seconds of exiting their patrol cars while making no apparent effort to de-escalate the situation or use less lethal weapons. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the police department Sunday, eastidahonews.com reported.
Opened fire from behind a chain link fence. ACAB
I do find it interesting that 911 was told the person looked drunk. And had it been tgat, the actions still would have fit. And they still would have shot him. And it still would have been wrong. Mandatory police training. Nationwide.
“We understand the concern and emotion surrounding the officer-involved shooting that occurred,” he said, adding, “We are also aware of the video circulating online, which shows only one angle. The full picture requires careful review of all facts and evidence.”
Yeah, whatever.
As always, ACAB.
They will 100% review ALL the facts and evidence (existent or otherwise) and commence an internal investigation.
“Itt shows only one angle” is such an asshole thing to say. Investigation is a good thing, but they ruin it by saying stupid shit.
Also getting sick of seeing that obfuscating language: “office involved shooting” as if there was a shootout that involved officers and not officers being the only ones with guns and the only reason shooting ever happened.
There’s only one angle. These cowards shot a disabled child through a chain link fence
Eos.
Pigs. Loyal to subjugating those poorer than them. Only capable of punching down.
But did they first scream, “He’s coming right for us!”?
“STOP RESISTING!”
Cops are pretty cowardly, most of them love killing people if they can get away with it because they have no soul.
That article got pulled quick.
I fixed the link.
that’s just what police do.
To serve and protect, if you are in the correct tax bracket.
Nine bullets removed and leg amputated? Holy shit, they pretty much mag-dumped the guy. I hate it that modern cops seem to have gotten their training from CS.
The real question is how can you be a cop and be such a bad shot that you shoot someone that many times and don’t kill them
“Only imperial storm troopers are so precise.”
Seems cops think they’re MaxTac already.
They certainly have the cyberpsycho part down.
These cops a shitheel attempted murderers for shooting someone who wasn’t a threat to anyone through a fence. They should both be sent to prison and permanently barred from posessing firearms.
But their form in committing that attempted murder isn’t the issue here. As far as mag dumping goes, that’s pretty standard practice when it comes to handguns. With hand guns it’s assumed that you’re going to be using them in a high stress situation where you aren’t going to have a whole lot of time to aim carefully and your adrenaline will be interfering with your aim. Plus handguns are harder to aim accurately and just plain more inaccurate than long guns. In addition, in a high stress situation someone can be shot and not even realize they got shot until the adrenaline wears off or they drop dead. It takes a pretty immediately critical wound to actually stop a human running on adrenaline and, while gunshot wounds are easily lethal given a little bit of time, there are shockingly few areas on the body where a gunshot wound is immediately lethal or immediately crippling. All this means that training for using handguns is to aim center of mass and keep pulling the trigger until your target actually drops or otherwise completely stops being a threat. They are really only meant to be last resort weapons even for cops. If you are planning on shooting someone then you get out a long gun.
The thing to criticize here is that these two subhuman skidmarks decided to immediately gun down someone who was no immediate threat to them or anyone else. Criticizing their form durring that attempted murder just gives you less credibility around those who have firearms training and is irrelevant to the fact that they just decided on murder as plan A. Bringing up their form just deflects from the fact that their reason for shooting the victim could only be that they just wanted to.
As a guy who enjoys guns(though chill with them being banned for obvious reasons) I can happily say that if this counts as a situation with enough stress to really psyke them out(a kid 5ft away behind a fence? Really?) then they’re still dogshit at using the only tool they every seem to reach for. Cops routinely prove to be awful drivers and terrible shots yet they will go for daytime high-speed chases and shootouts in crowded areas far too often. Fuck ‘em, they should be made fun of for this.
Also if that loses credibility, if that’s enough to make a gun nut switch sides, then they were already looking for an excuse and never cared about the human component to begin with.
All coppers are cunts
Murder, plain and simple. They immediately showed up and opened fire within less than 30 seconds.
They simply weren’t in danger. There was a fence between them and The victim.
Remember if you’ve got a problem and call the police, now you have two problems.
The poor 12 year old boy that called the police, I bet he won’t make that mistake again. He will be traumatized for life and scared of the police.
His 19-year-old son, Bridger, called 911 and reported it as a domestic dispute in a backyard.
nine fucking bullets…jesus christ.
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There’s an effing fence. There was no person and no cop at any risk. How the ef would any reasonable person shoot?
Even if it were an actual aggressive person, actively threatening them, how would any person think deadly force was ok, on the other side of the effing fence?
And the dispatcher had said the kid was so impaired he couldn’t walk and may have stabbed himself? How is that a threat? Behind a fence?
Even if they’re a trigger happy moron looking for an excuse to murder “one of them”, how did they get to that point?
If they were reasonable people, then they would not be cops.
Because, it helps get their rocks off.
