[kellyhound]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The shooting unfolds rapidly. Seconds after police officers found him hiding in a closet, Daniel Saavedra-Arreola is fatally wounded.

Albuquerque police on Tuesday showed reporters video of the Jan. 7 incident and on Wednesday the department released it.

Officers Amy O’Dell, Elisa Valdez, Emmett Fritz and Bryce Willsey all fired their weapons during the encounter.

In the video officers can be heard yelling into a vacant apartment on East Central, asking for a suspect to exit.

Police had been called there on a report that a suspect had broken into one of the units. In reality, police said police officers called on the suspect to exit the apartment for over an hour before they forced their way through a locked door and started searching.

The video shows officers checking closets, a kitchen, the bathroom and one of the bedrooms before they go into the final room of the house, where Saavedra-Arreola is waiting.

As soon as one of the officers opens the closet door, Saavedra-Arreola lunges and starts wildly swinging a metal pipe and a folding knife. One of the officers narrowly avoids being struck, according to the video.

Police first shot him with a Taser, which doesn’t have any apparent effect.

The four officers then fire their weapons a total of 17 times. Saavedra-Arreola dies as a result of his injuries.

Albuquerque interim Police Chief Michael Geier said this week that he plans to follow a similar protocol after future police shootings.

Once police have finished their preliminary investigation by interviewing all officers and eyewitnesses, he’ll brief the media on the shooting and provide them with access to the shooting videos.

Shaun Willoughby, the president of the Albuquerque police union, said that while the union thinks videos shouldn’t be released until after the district attorney decides whether or not to press charges, he said it’s a step in the right direction that Geier has created a policy for when the videos should be released. The prior administration didn’t have a clear policy on when it would release videos.

This was the first shooting that happened since Geier took over the department on Dec. 1.

The father of the man whom police shot and killed Sunday said his son, Daniel Arreola-Saavedra, 24, broke into an empty apartment complex on Central east of Wyoming to find a place to sleep.

“My son broke into that unit, that’s his girlfriend’s old unit, because it was cold,” Jesse Arreola said in a phone interview. “It was an empty unit.”

[HigherSpektrum]

Shooting at 8:18

[Steve]

What the fuck was he thinking coming at them like that, it was only going to end one way, stupid kid.

[Wildrice]

that chick cop is cute

[Gizmo10]

(Turns to Swiss cheese)
Officer: DON'T. MOVE. Don't move.

[Ninjavandal]

Suicide by cop, I suppose.

[copper]

Yeah has to be, either that or he was on something. No other explanation I can think of for blind swinging like that with pipe and knife in the face of all them guns.

[Necrotic Bowel]

“Drop the knife, drop the knife!”

“I can’t, I’m dead”.



















“Drop the knife!”

[Kriegripper]

Dude, they pumped him good, 17 rounds...damn

[Ferocity]

It's insulting how cops will ask you to do shit after they've shot the ever living shit out of you. Fucking cunts did it right though.... He had that shit coming with the way he jumped out flaying around like a wild chicken.