[KC]

Surveillance video showing a Fresno police officer shooting an unarmed 16-year-old boy in the back of the head was released today, contradicting the initial police narrative that the cop was in fear for his life because the teen had been reaching for his waistband while making eye contact with him.

The video shows Isaiah Murrietta scaling a fence into an enclosed yard of a daycare center as a cop chasing him tries to do the same.

However, a second cop, Fresno Police Sergeant Ray Villalvazo, can be seen crouching down on the other side of the fence, firing a single round into the back of the teen's head.

The incident took place on April 17, 2017 after Fresno police pulled over a car that Murrietta was riding in and forced him and other teens to do the whole "officer safety" routine, ordering them to walk backwards towards them with their hands on their head.

The family says Murrietta ran because he was afraid of Fresno police. The cops ended the chase within seconds with a single gunshot wound to the back of his head.

Police are claiming that Murrietta and his brother are suspects in a murder that took place the prior day but two years later, they have not even connected a murder weapon to the brothers.

[Royal_Madnessty]

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”The Fresno police chief released a statement in the video release's wake noting that the incident and the officer involved were subject to three investigations, all of which concluded that the officer's use of lethal force was justified.

Chief of police Andrew Hall urged the public "not to rush to judgement."

"The video released yesterday is an officer involved shooting that occurred over two years ago. The use of lethal force in this case occurred while officers were investigating a homicide. The 16-year-old in this case was involved in the homicide with his brother and the brother was later arrested and pled guilty," Hall said in a statement released Thursday.“


Sad all the way around.

[SingularTub]

It seems like the way people sag their pants they grab their waist band in the exact same fashion as if drawing a weapon.

[ILookyLoo]

Got him right in the spine. Dead before he hit the ground? Maybe young people will stop drop and learn that being degenerate pot-smoking losers is not going to play out well. Show some respect for a cop that is carrying a 9mm for fucking sakes. In this day and age of technology, surely they know better. Teenage boys are not tougher than a grown man thats loaded for bear. You reap what you sow.

[kellyhound]

Around 3:30 p.m. a car with three teens left the San Bruno home, prompting the tactical team to make a “high-risk” traffic stop in the parking lot of the Gallery Plaza at Shaw Avenue and First Street. The lawsuit says the three teens initially complied with police commands to walk backwards with their hands raised while Villalvazo and other officers held them at gunpoint.

Murrietta-Golding then took off, running across Fresno Street. “Isiah was unarmed and holding a hat in his right hand,” the lawsuit says. The two other teens did not run.

Villalvazo chased Murrietta-Golding as he ran toward the New Life Discovery preschool at First and Keats Avenue., north of Shaw Avenue. Because it was Saturday, the preschool was closed and the parking lot was empty, the lawsuit says.

Murrietta-Golding jump a fence and ran toward the preschool. Villalvazo did not climb over the fence. Instead, “Sgt. Villalvazo aimed his duty weapon at the back of Isiah’s head,” the lawsuit says. “Sgt. Villalvazo fired a single shot, which tore through Isiahs’ occipital lobe.”

The lawsuit says Villalvazo had no legal justification to draw his weapon when the teens were pulled over or when Murrietta-Golding took off running. Villalvazo also failed to give any warning to Murrietta-Golding before “using deadly force,” the lawsuit says. “Villalvazo had no facts to believe Isiah was armed or had any intent to harm anyone.”

Murrietta-Golding was 5-feet-4-inches tall and 109 pounds. As he ran from police, his loose-fitting pants or shorts fell down. He may have reached with his left hand to pull up his clothing or glanced backward to see Villalvazo, the lawsuit says, but “no reasonable officer would have interpreted either movement as posing an immediate threat to anyone’s safety.”

Wounded and laying on the ground, Murrietta-Golding needed urgent medical care. Instead, Villalvazo and the other officers frisked and handcuffed Murrietta-Golding, the lawsuit says. Several minutes passed before Villlvazo and the others sought first aid for Murrietta-Golding., the lawsuit says.

An unconscious Murrietta-Golding was taken to the hospital in handcuffs, despite requests from ambulance staff to remove them, the lawsuit says. The handcuffs were taken off at the hospital, where Murrietta-Golding remained in critical condition until he died three days later.

[RiversEdge]

damn. w/ that angle on my screen, he could've hit me.

[wildaxboxer]

Simple act of buying a pair of joggies that fit, can save your life...I think his family will get some fun money out of this..

[DarkAngelEdge]

Nice shot to the dome.

[Watcher===]

Cops booking a corpse is always a surreal sight.