Tucson Police Smoke Dude Aiming Gun at K9

[MeMyselfandI]

Originally Posted by pokerplay

Sit Ubu, sit. Good dog.

Man that brought back memories

[Tyrantus]

Good job pup!

[Yanni]

Authorities have released bodycam footage from a Tucson police shooting that killed 49-year-old Francisco Javier Galarza at a Circle K on Aug. 25.

According to the Pima Regional Critical Incident Team (PRCIT), Tucson Police SWAT officers had been conducting surveillance on Galarza, regarding active felony arrest warrants stemming from a home invasion and bank robbery just before the shooting.

Officials said that officers approached Galarza when he came out of the store at 11:51 a.m. and told him to get down on the ground so that they could arrest him. But Galarza tried to flee and removed a black handgun out of a bag that he was carrying, according to the incident team.

Officer Barrie Pedersen released his police dog, Kiro, to apprehend Galarza and brought him to the ground, according to police. Police said that while Galarza was on the ground, he pointed his gun at officers Ernest Ortiz and Pedersen which prompted officers to shoot at him.

The critical incident unit said that officers provided medical attention to Galarza using first aid kits until Tucson firefighters arrived. Despite these efforts, Galarza was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

PRCIT said police later learned the gun in Galarza's possession was a Taurus G3 9mm semi-automatic and that it was recovered with ammunition in the magazine and one round in the chamber.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ct/8122180001/

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by ride

Great vid, a wee bit small. Had to break out my microscope to view.

fixed.

[photo2uj]

Originally Posted by docfr8

Police K9 dogs are officially officers... He's a good boy

Police man are not officers. Only elected officials to an office are officers. In military service, commission and noncommission are also officers. Police are a civilian law enforcement agents of a police department. All who are not ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY, and who do NOT answer to the Uniform Code of MILITARY Justice, ARE CIVILIANS including police ,deputies to a sheriff department or troopers.

[bball0816]

W cop. W dog.

[spamwich]

Location

[upinthemountains]

Blow your weird political shit out of your ass.

Originally Posted by photo2uj

Police man are not officers. Only elected officials to an office are officers. In military service, commission and noncommission are also officers. Police are a civilian law enforcement agents of a police department. All who are not ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY, and who do NOT answer to the Uniform Code of MILITARY Justice, ARE CIVILIANS including police ,deputies to a sheriff department or troopers.

[cohort66]

Originally Posted by photo2uj

Police man are not officers. Only elected officials to an office are officers. In military service, commission and noncommission are also officers. Police are a civilian law enforcement agents of a police department. All who are not ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY, and who do NOT answer to the Uniform Code of MILITARY Justice, ARE CIVILIANS including police ,deputies to a sheriff department or troopers.

. Then why are they called Police OFFICERS and Law enforcement OFFICERS?

[spamwich]

Originally Posted by photo2uj

Police man are not officers. Only elected officials to an office are officers.

Perhaps it depends on the context.

In Pierson v. Ray (1967) the Supreme Court decided that police were “officers” and covered under the Qualified Immunity doctrine that protects public officials from frivolous lawsuits and financial liability during execution of their duties.

The Supreme Court denied a 2016 petition to hear the libel case of Armstrong v. Thompson thereby allowing a lower court ruling to stand stating “law enforcement officers are ‘public officials’ under New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)”.

There are also state cases that similarly recognize police as officials in context, e.g. the Massachusetts Supreme Court in Rotkiewicz v Sadowsky (2000) ruled “for the purposes of a defamation action, a police officer is a public official.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
https://casetext.com/case/thompson-v-armstrong-1
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-file...ng-v-thompson/
http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/431/431mass748.html