Police Shoot Man For Recording Them With Phone, Claim They Feared For Their Lives
The Sacramento sheriff’s deputies shot Danny Sanchez on Friday. The shooting occurred when the Sheriff’s department SWAT team showed up to arrest his neighbor .
When Sanchez saw the incident, and the SWAT team converge, he began recording from his garage. He assumed there wouldn’t be any problem, since he was so far away from the incident, on his own property and even out on the edge of the garage.
Police say that Sanchez was extending his arm with “an object” in his hand. That “object” was a cellphone, Sanchez’s father John “Sonny” Sanchez said. His son was simply trying to videotape the arrest of Ledford. That’s when police opened fire on him.
“He was yelling, ‘Dad I’m shot, I’m shot,’
so I grabbed him inside and closed the garage door. I put a tourniquet around his leg and a clean towel,” John Sanchez explained.
He pointed out four additional bullet holes in his garage as well as several more in his car.
“You can see how many shots they did: one, two three, four — shooting at my son with a cell phone. C’mon that’s ridiculous,”
On top of shooting him and arresting him, Sanchez’s home was also searched. But Sgt. Ramos acknowledged Sanchez committed no crime.
And they searched the house? Probably trying to find or manufacture some justification for themselves.
When is it going to become ok to begin shooting at cops “because they were holding something” or any of the other idiotic excuses you hear come out of the mouths of these supposed “officers”? If the same litmus tests were given for ordinary citizens it would literally be ok to shoot any cop you see on sight and then search their fucking possessions.
Real cops aren’t nervous little pieces of chicken shit that shoot at their own shadows like these worthless government employees.
No, it is not reasonable to shoot people simply because they are holding something. That you think it is reasonable speaks volumes of the problems with policing today.
And the fuckup cops that shot the guy couldn’t even hit center mass of a guy who wasn’t fucking moving even after shooting a half dozen or so shots. What kind of fuck up cops are these? SWAT team my ass. If these guys were ever in a real fight where people shoot back they’d be seriously fucked. Thank god they are such bad shots, but maybe they should have their firearms taken away for that reason alone.
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