This isn’t the video I wanted to post yesterday but it’s still pretty good. The original article was of a mentally ill 18 year-old man who, in an obvious suicide by cop, called 911 to report a man with a gun and described himself to the dispatcher. Police arrived and the guy pulled a Clint Eastwood move like at the end of “GRAN TORINO” (thanks to Tb to pointing out my egregious error) whipping out his lighter so the thugs shoot him. I couldn’t find a link to the video that I could post but if you want to check it out, you can find that here. FoxSanAntonio.
Now onto our next video.
Via PoliceActivity Youtube
San Jose, California — San Jose police officers shot and killed a man last year as he drove a stolen car into a police sergeant, the District Attorney’s Office has determined. In the late morning of May 4, 2019, Efren Esquivel, 24, stole a sheriff’s deputy’s personal car as it idled unoccupied outside her home.
Oops! Stealing a car is a bad idea on its own, but you can bet the cops are going to make an extra special effort to hunt your ass down if you steal one of their own’s vehicle. And indeed it only took them one hour to find him.
After being found, he refused to surrender when surrounded by officers and then tried to smash his way out of the blockade with the car. Before he ran over the officer he yelled, “You’re gonna have to shoot me” or “You’re gonna have to kill me.”
“Nyah. Nyah. You’ll never take me alive see? Nyah.” And, public servants that they are, they granted his wish. Take a gander:
An autopsy determined that Esquivel was intoxicated with “a near-toxic” level of methamphetamines. Prosecutor Rob Baker wrote in the 30-page report: “When he drove at Sergeant (James) Mason at high speed, the officers had no other recourse to save Sergeant Mason than to discharge their firearms.”
The Mercury news reported that “Esquivel was a known gang member with multiple past auto-theft convictions who, according to prosecutors, had told at least one person “I’m never going back to prison.” Probably because he suffered through some sever butthole pounding his last time in the joint. But I’m sure he enjoyed his stay in the morgue as he probably didn’t get raped, and if he did he wouldn’t know about it.
“Had they not fired, the vehicle likely would not have come to a stop, allowing Esquivel to inflict greater injury to Sergeant Mason and possibly hit additional officers as he attempted to escape.” An hour after he stole the car, a theft that was caught on a security video, San Jose police officers found Esquivel sitting in the vehicle in the carport area of an apartment complex located on Kollmar Drive in San Jose. After refusing repeated commands to surrender, Esquivel drove the stolen car into a police car, trying to smash his way out. Then, he drove at the police officers, crushing Sgt. Mason between the stolen vehicle and another car parked nearby. Mason suffered a broken shoulder and other injuries. Three officers, Aaron Alvarez, Edward Carboni and Sgt. Mason, fired their weapons
Why it took so long for for the friggin’ DA to come to the conclusion that this was an entirely justified shooting is beyond comprehension. Seems pretty cut and dried to me.
