WA-Cops Kill Man Holding a Cellphone, Police Chief Says Officers were Justified

[Anti Federalist]

Where we at now, about 415?

Poor bastard didn't obey hard enough.


Cops Kill Man Holding a Cellphone, Police Chief Says Officers were Justified

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man...xyTc3oziRRV.99

Lakewood, Washington – A 37-year-old man named Daniel Covarrubias was shot and killed by police last month because a cellphone he was holding was mistaken for a gun.

Covarrubias had reportedly checked himself into a hospital hours before because he was suffering from hallucinations, and somehow he later ended up hiding in a lumber yard, on top of a 25-foot-tall stack of wood.

Someone called 911 on him because they had seen him running away from police sirens and assumed that he was trying to evade police. In reality, he was experiencing some type of mental health emergency and was frightened by the sound of the sirens.

When police arrived on the scene, Covarrubias was not violent or threatening with the officers, but he did hold his cell phone up. Possibly to use the light on his phone, or perhaps to use the camera so he could record the police encounter. Whatever his intentions were, the two officers believed that he had a gun and fired nine shots.

Five of the bullets ended up hitting Covarrubias, ending his life.

Lakewood Chief Mike Zaro said that the shooting was justified, and he is defending the officers’ decision to use deadly force, even though the victim was unarmed and not harming anyone.

[fisharmor]

Holy $#@!, they scored better than 50% this time.
Must be all that extra training everyone is suggesting.

[Root]

Someone called 911 on him because they had seen him running away from police sirens and assumed that he was trying to evade police. In reality, he was experiencing some type of mental health emergency and was frightened by the sound of the sirens.

See something, say something...

[osan]

...Someone called 911 on him...

American rat culture on the rise. How charming.

We proud yet?

[TheTexan]

Well, if you walk around with an object in your hand the same color as a gun, what do you expect cops to think??

[aGameOfThrones]

Well, if you walk around with an object in your hand the same color as a gun, what do you expect cops to think??

Cop+Think= 0

[presence]

Lakewood Chief Mike Zaro said that the shooting was justified

/end thread

[JK/SEA]

packing the pipe. 420 is upon us.

oops...sorry. Didn't see the END THREAD call...

yeah..justified. No further comments are needed.

[osan]

Holy $#@!, they scored better than 50% this time.
Must be all that extra training everyone is suggesting.

Pure fluke. Had they turned their pistols on themselves the result would have yielded the usual ca. < 10% hit rate.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[osan]

Cop+Think= << 0

Acme Equation Repair Inc. fixed that fer'y.

[Occam's Banana]

SERVED. AND. PROTECTED.

A 37-year-old man named Daniel Covarrubias was shot and killed by police last month because a cellphone he was holding was mistaken for a gun.

Daniel Covarrubias did this to himself ...

[tod evans]

Expecting the police to police the police has a foregone conclusion......

[Occam's Banana]

A 37-year-old man named Daniel Covarrubias was shot and killed by police last month because a cellphone he was holding the hand at the end of his arm was mistaken for a gun.

Fixed it for them.

[Occam's Banana]

When police arrived on the scene, Covarrubias [held] his cell phone up. [... T]he two officers believed that he had a gun and fired nine shots.

Five of the bullets ended up hitting Covarrubias, ending his life.

It took nine shots to put this dangerous reprobate down. Nine shots.

Clearly, the demands of "officer safety" require that we ban high-capacity magazines for cell phones ...

[TheTexan]

Cop+Think= 0

Precisely right. They don't have time to think. If they think for even a second, they die. They have to act on instinct. Survival instinct. Cus its a dangerous job.

[TheTexan]

Cop+Think= 0

Precisely right. They don't have time to think. If they think for even a second, they die. They have to act on instinct. Survival instinct. Cus its a dangerous job.

[Ronin Truth]

Rumors that the cell phone was loaded continue to be under an ongoing investigation.

[wizardwatson]

Rumors that the cell phone was loaded continue to be under an ongoing investigation.

Terrorists often use cell phones to detonate bombs. There's no telling how many lives they saved.

[Ronin Truth]

Terrorists often use cell phones to detonate bombs. There's no telling how many lives they saved.

I think I'll just play the odds and SWAG, ZERO.

[Daveforliberty]

Precisely right. They don't have time to think. If they think for even a second, they die. They have to act on instinct. Survival instinct. Cus its a dangerous job.

Then cops should kill anyone they come into contact with, because... you never know.

[wizardwatson]

Then cops should kill anyone they come into contact with, because... you never know.

Well, killing the mentally ill is really doing them a favor. Hopefully through medical advances we can just abort them before they are born. That's what we do with the down syndrome babies, I think to the tune of around 80 or 90%.

I probably would've been aborted if I was scheduled to be born in 2050.

[Ronin Truth]

It took nine shots to put this dangerous reprobate down. Nine shots.

Clearly, the demands of "officer safety" require that we ban high-capacity magazines for cell phones ...

It was a rookie officer firearm training exercise.

[osan]

Rumors that the cell phone was loaded continue to be under an ongoing investigation.

Probably one of those fully-automatic cell phones with high-cap battery that sprays.

[Christopher A. Brown]

Probably one of those fully-automatic cell phones with high-cap battery that sprays.

Trivializing murders by LE rather than participating in defense of the constitution the LE violated is the kind of thing agents end up doing when demands for accountability demonstrating consistency with their pretense of being Americans are made.

Most posting here know of my efforts to get effective mental health care made available to Americans. They've been advised of the fact that the 9th circuit district court secretly revised court rules to deprive civil rights plaintiffs of justice when trying to compel local government to obey state health and safety code laws.

They've been advised and shown how a local newspaper fired and gagged resigning reporters and editors to prevent a story about the lawsuit from getting to the public.

http://algoxy.com/law/no_free_press/...tsofmedia.html

But is the need for effective mental health care a part of comments, no. Frivolous, erroneous, trivial banter degrades the issue of the killing by LE is pretty much exclusively what is expressed.

An example modeling inurement to LE violation of rights and murder of citizens is what I see. An effort to create hopelessness and acceptance of tyranny is what I see.

[Ronin Truth]

Well first off, because it just looked way too much like a first generation phaser.

[CCTelander]

Probably one of those fully-automatic cell phones with high-cap battery that sprays.

An "assault cell phone"?

[CCTelander]

Trivializing murders by LE rather than participating in defense of the constitution the LE violated is the kind of thing agents end up doing when demands for accountability demonstrating consistency with their pretense of being Americans are made.

Most posting here know of my efforts to get effective mental health care made available to Americans. They've been advised of the fact that the 9th circuit district court secretly revised court rules to deprive civil rights plaintiffs of justice when trying to compel local government to obey state health and safety code laws.

They've been advised and shown how a local newspaper fired and gagged resigning reporters and editors to prevent a story about the lawsuit from getting to the public.

http://algoxy.com/law/no_free_press/...tsofmedia.html

But is the need for effective mental health care a part of comments, no. Frivolous, erroneous, trivial banter degrades the issue of the killing by LE is pretty much exclusively what is expressed.

An example modeling inurement to LE violation of rights and murder of citizens is what I see. An effort to create hopelessness and acceptance of tyranny is what I see.

Oh STFU already.

Your constant accusations against long-standing, well respected members have moved far beyond wearisome. Give it a rest.

[Christopher A. Brown]

Oh STFU already.

Your constant accusations against long-standing, well respected members have moved far beyond wearisome. Give it a rest.

Longstanding amongst a crowd of covert manipulators gaining their respect means nothing to the actual work of defending rights and restoring constitutional government with a population unified around prime constitutional intent.

Your defense of their unaccountability to reason Indicates you are one of them. Time to ask you the question that determines your sincerity as an American who stands for the 1787 constitution.

Do you agree and accept that the purpose of free speech is to enable the unity needed to effectively alter or abolish government destructive to unalienable rights?

[CCTelander]

Longstanding amongst a crowd of covert manipulators gaining their respect means nothing to the actual work of defending rights and restoring constitutional government with a population unified around prime constitutional intent.

Your defense of their unaccountability to reason Indicates you are one of them. Time to ask you the question that determines your sincerity as an American who stands for the 1787 constitution.

Do you agree and accept that the purpose of free speech is to enable the unity needed to effectively alter or abolish government destructive to unalienable rights?

Yawn.