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Title: Video Shows this Cop Shooting at Minivan Full of Children, How is He Still a Cop?
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/vi ... oot-minivan-full-children-cop/
Published: Mar 18, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-03-19 07:39:39 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 5519
Comments: 48
Taos County, NM — In 2013, a mother and her children feared for their lives when a stop for a speeding ticket turned into much more. Oriana Farrell, 39, of Memphis, was bringing her children across the country on a family road trip, when things took a turn for the worse. After Farrell had been given a citation, she decided to drive away from police. Several short chases then followed, before one of the cops, Elias Montoya, unloaded his pistol into the minivan as it drove off. Common sense prevailed, for a short time, and Montoya was fired from his job as a New Mexico State Trooper. However, he was just rehired with the Taos County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy. According to Taos Co, Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe, Montoya was chosen from 17 different applicants to fill just one of two available positions. Did the other sixteen applicants actually kill children? Is that why a person who shot at children was hired? Insidiously enough, after the incident got swept under the rug, the State Troopers actually tried to hire Montoya back, but he refused. Apparently Sheriff Hogrefe thinks that shooting at a van full of children is just fine and dandy and has stated that Montoya has a clean record. “Nothing from DPS [or] the training academy pertaining to his certification or qualifications…so he has a clean work history,” Hogrefe said. According KOB, the sheriff defended Montoya’s actions in the dash cam video, saying Montoya didn’t know there were kids in the van and that he believed the driver had a gun. “I cannot fault anyone for making a split-second decision,” Hogrefe said. According to Montoya’s new boss, shooting innocent until proven guilty people in the back as they flee is justifiable, as it was a “split-second decision.” Seems like Montoya will fit right in. Below is the raw video from the original incident.
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#2. To: Deckard (#0)
It's a stupid, f**king speeding ticket! You were speeding. Take the ticket and be on your way, for crying out loud. But no. You gotta resist, flee the scene, assault the cop, flee again. With a car full of children. Hey, if momma don't care about the keeds, why should the cops?
Why disrupt traffic for a speeding ticket? Bill the license plate holder. Police should only pull people over if they are driving unsafely - and by unsafe I mean they need to stop them from driving and arrest them. Driving offenses that require just a ticket should not result in being pulled over any more.
In the video, the cop says at the start that she was going 71mph in a 55mph zone. That's pretty reckless, especially with kids on board. 7-10mph over the limit is speeding. 15+mph over the limit is more than just speeding. I'm surprised no one is commenting on Montoya trying to shoot out her rear tire as she fled.
I did. I stated it was unjustified because it was reckless and since there was no longer an immediate threat towards an officer (because they were fleeing), it was not necessary.
#33. To: GrandIsland (#31)
Not to mention it was pathetic his potbelly was stuffed so full of donuts that he couldn't crouch properly to actually shoot out the tire. Three shots from that close and he couldn't hit the tire? If he hadn't been hiding behind the van from the angry 14yo, he could have stood at the side of the van and then even he couldn't have missed the tire.
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#5. To: misterwhite (#2)
#27. To: Pericles, Fred Mertz, GrandIsland (#5)
Police should only pull people over if they are driving unsafely - and by unsafe I mean they need to stop them from driving and arrest them. Driving offenses that require just a ticket should not result in being pulled over any more.
#31. To: TooConservative (#27)
I'm surprised no one is commenting on Montoya trying to shoot out her rear tire as she fled.
Replies to Comment # 31. I did. I stated it was unjustified because it was reckless and since there was no longer an immediate threat towards an officer (because they were fleeing), it was not necessary.
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