LF: Father & 7yo daughter held at gunpoint by ‘insane & violent’ police officer

Title: Father & 7yo daughter held at gunpoint by ‘insane & violent’ police officer
Source: Russia Today
URL Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/355930-arizona-police-gunpoint-car/
Published: Aug 14, 2016
Author: RT
Post Date: 2016-08-15 14:08:31 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 7543
Comments: 66

A father and his young daughter claim they were terrorized by a highway patrolman in Arizona while they were en route to the Grand Canyon on Friday.

Ken Walton, who is from California, described the horrifying ordeal in a lengthy Facebook post where he and his 7-year-old daughter were held at gunpoint after being pulled over by the out-of-control highway patrolman.

“Tonight, I was arrested at gunpoint by an Arizona highway patrol officer who threatened to shot me in the back (twice) in front of my 7-year-old daughter. For a moment, I was certain he was going to kill me for no reason,” he wrote.

Walton had been making his way to the Grand Canyon in a rented car when he was pulled over by the Arizona Highway Patrol who had been tailing him for a few miles.

“I hadn’t been speeding so I wondered if perhaps the car had a broken taillight or something. I rolled down my window and waited,” he said.

Rather than approach the driver’s side, the officer instead “rapped on the rear passenger side window with his pistol.”

His daughter who was “sitting inches from the barrel of his gun, jumped with fear as the officer yelled at me to roll down the front passenger window, his service weapon pointed directly at me.”

While the police officer continued to shout orders, the young passenger panicked and attempted to get out of her booster seat to roll down the front window. It was at this point that the agitated officer screamed at her and pointed his gun at her.

Walton said he then exited the car he assumed the position to be arrested at gunpoint.

“Then, as I had my hands in the air, he yelled, at the top of his lungs in a voice I will never forget, as my daughter looked on in terror, ‘Get your hands away from your waist or I’ll blow two holes through your back right now!”

The father said he was “utterly terrified,” at this stage. “I’ve heard stories of police yelling out false things like this before they unjustifiably attack someone as a way to justify the attack and I thought this was what was happening to me. I braced for bullets to hit me and all I could think of was my daughter having to watch it happen and being left alone on the side of the highway with an insane, violent cop.”

After being arrested, he was placed in the back of the police car and Walton then confronted the officer for threatening to kill him. He also got the patrolman’s name - Oton Villegas - and his badge number.

“He stood by his story that I had made a threatening movement toward my waist, and I said it wasn’t true, and he said this wasn’t the place to discuss it. He let me go attend to my daughter but continued to ‘detain’ us for another 20 minutes as he talked to his supervisors, presumably plotting damage control.”

The dad is now deciding on if he will take legal action, but added that his daughter was “thoroughly traumatized by the event.”

In March, a police officer was charged with second-degree murder after shooting dead an unarmed 26-year-old man in Arizona.

Body camera footage of the incident, which took place in January, confirmed the victim, Daniel Shaver, pleading with the officer not to shoot him as he crawled along the hallway outside his room at the La Quinta Inn in Mesa.

"Per the DPS report, "Initially the driver, identified as Kenneth Walton, was not responding to officer’s commands while seated in his vehicle so the trooper moved up the passenger-side window and got the occupant’s attention by tapping on the window with his hand. It was at this time the trooper realized there was a child in the car as she sat up into view. Mr. Walton was ordered out of the car and detained in handcuffs while the trooper conducted his investigation. The investigation concluded the rental company had not replaced the vehicle plates when the front plate was reported stolen and Mr. Walton and his daughter were released from the scene."

"Mr. Walton has every right to be angry and we support him in his anger.. however, we just feel he needs to direct it in the right place, which is, this never would've happened if this rental company would've removed the plates like they were supposed to," said DPS Captain Damon Cecil.

As it urns out, the car wasn't stolen and neither was the plate. The rental company just didn't remove the plate being registered as stolen.

“AZ DPS understands and sympathizes with the concerns the family has regarding this situation,” stated Captain Ezekiel Zesiger, Flagstaff District Commander. “Anytime a police contact is made for a possibly stolen vehicle our troopers are trained to take all necessary precautions. In this instance, the vehicle's license plate was reported as stolen. Troopers must adhere to their training in regards to conducting a high risk traffic stop in these types of situations. Training and protocols are in place for the safety of the Trooper as well as the safety of citizens. Fortunately, the subject in this case was compliant with the trooper and the situation ended peacefully with no one being harmed.”

I don't believe a word of this cop or his thin blue line buddy. Liars, all of them.

Of course he denies all of the victims claims. All police officers are saints, aren't they?

I'm not claiming anything, dickbreath. I wasn't there. Only a paultard claims they know exactly what happened from a written article, written by another person that wasn't at the scene.

There's a complete play-by-play account from the guy who was terrorized by the cowardly POS thug.

The person who tells the side of the story you want to believe is always the truth....eh?

If you believe my 7 year old daughter was lying down in the front bucket seat of the car while I was traveling down Interstate 40, the large group of officers who converged onto the scene right as I was being handcuffed could confirm that she was buckled into her booster seat where she belonged. She's pretty angry about this part of the article, which she perceives to be a lie.

If the arresting officer didn't see her, he wasn't doing his job, or maybe his recollection of the scene is faulty, which is understandable given what appeared to be his highly agitated mental state. Or maybe he's indeed not being truthful to cover the fact that his gun was pointed at her.

Anyone who points a gun at a child is a fucking coward, and those who defend such actions are despicable scum.

That's something never seen by me, nimrod. You have a notarized copy of just one?

That's what I thought. Puketard makes shit up and you run around behind him and wipe the Sneak- a-Peter off him chin.

Sounds like you don't have capability & capacity to be coherent; this is especially evident with your personal choices of electronic communication devices.