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Title: Cops Respond to Hostage Situation By Opening Fire, Killing Innocent Hostage
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FromThe Trenches/FTP
URL Source: http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.c ... illing-innocent-hostage/230628
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2018-08-02 05:50:12 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1230
Comments: 8
Los Angeles, CA — Los Angeles police released graphic body camera footage this week, showing officers opening fire on a man armed with a knife who’d taken a 49-year-old woman hostage. In the shooting, police killed both the man with the knife, and the innocent hostage. According to a 911 recording, officers were called to the scene on June 16, after a woman reported that a man had stabbed someone at her location. When officers arrived, they found Guillermo Perez, 32, who had just stabbed his ex-girlfriend with a knife. When officers confronted Perez, he held a chair as a shield and a large knife. As officers yelled for Perez to drop the knife, he did not comply. At this point, officers opened fire on Perez with bean bag rounds, according to LAPD chief Michel Moore. However, the chair shielded him from the blasts. “He moved away from officers and grabbed an innocent bystander who was standing nearby. Perez began to cut the innocent bystander’s throat with a knife. That’s when three officers shot at Perez to stop his actions and prevent him from killing the hostage,” the chief said. When Perez grabbed the innocent bystander, 49-year-old Elizabeth Tollison, officers unleashed a torrent of gunfire. In total, officers fired 18 rounds, several of which struck Tollison, killing her. As ABC 7 reports, Moore said there’s much more work to be done in the investigation before he is able to provide recommendations on the actions of the officers involved. The investigation will look into whether proper procedures were followed. The chief said it’s been 13 years since an officer’s gunfire killed an innocent bystander or hostage. “The life of the hostage is paramount and protecting that individual from the threat of the assailant, and in doing that, the balancing act that the officer has – is how to protect them by stopping the suspect’s actions,” Moore said. “This was a tense situation that unfolded very quickly. It’s every officer’s worst nightmare.” According to police, Perez had a violent past and was recently released from prison after being convicted of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and domestic violence. Sadly, Tollison is the second hostage in only 6 weeks to be killed by LAPD officers. As TFTP reported last month, Melyda Corado, 27, was an assistant manager at a Trader Joe’s grocery store and her life ended tragically when her workplace became the scene where a police chase ended and officers started to exchange gunfire with the suspect they had been pursuing. The Los Angeles Police Department has been surprisingly open with the public, and Moore admitted last month that the bullets that struck and killed Corado were fired by LAPD officers. “The source of that round, we’ve recovered it, and ballistically we believe it’s from one of the two officers,” Moore said. “The fatal bullet first hit (Corado’s) arm, then entered her body.” The police chief attempted to defend the actions of the officers by claiming that they “had to make a split-second decision. I’m here to say that that is the worst, worst decision that any officer ever wishes to have to make.” In Corado’s case, the assailant police were after, Gene Evin Atkins, 28, was unharmed in the shooting. Poster Comment:
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
This is why you shoot an armed man who is fleeing -- it prevents hostage taking. But had they done so you would have screamed "excessive force" and called for first-degree murder charges. Right? Yep. You would have.
Might as well just shoot the hostage then, right paulsen? Yeah - real fine police work there by golly!
There would be no hostage had the police shot the scumbag with the knife as he was fleeing down the street.
Yeah - well I guess that makes it OK then. They should have called in Leroy Jethro Gibbs or Bob Lee Swagger and gotten the job done right.
Can not disagree with that. If he does take a hostage, just hope one of the officers is a very good shot that can make an accurate head shot. Once the perp takes a hostage, that is not the time for a group "spray & pray ".
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.
If I were an Officer, for situations like this I would carry in the car a very accurate AR " Patrol Rifle " equipped with an EOtech, or an Aimpoint, to make precise hits at distance. Most Officers are not highly accurate Pistolero's. In this case, the " bean bag " was worthless. If depending on the bean bag, should have aimed for the head or groin, multiple shots. If using a shotgun, should have used a slug, or 00 buck. Too much distance for pistols. One of the officers should have rushed him to acquire shorter range. Since perp only armed with knife, no reason to maintain that much distance. Should have capped him when he was in the open without the hostage. Bad, bad situation !
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.
I feel bad for the hostage. Damn that’s gotta suck. But I’m happy as a paultard in a tin foil hat, that the knife wielding shitbag, will never cause the police another report to write.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
A so-called "sniper rifle" would have been helpful. If you look at around 2:20 - a number of shots are fired, don't know if that's when the woman was killed - then at 2:27 in the video, the cop wearing the camera has a clear shot at the perp's head - he could have ended it right there. But then everyone of the cops opens fire - doesn't make much sense to just fire wantonly when a woman is being held hostage. I guess I'm saying that had they waited until the one cop had a clear shot - the woman might still be alive.
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
This is why you shoot an armed man who is fleeing -- it prevents hostage taking.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
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#3. To: Deckard (#2)
Might as well just shoot the hostage then, right paulsen?
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
There would be no hostage had the police shot the scumbag with the knife as he was fleeing down the street.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Trump: My People Should ‘Sit Up in Attention’ Like Kim Jong-un’s Staff.
#5. To: misterwhite (#1)
" This is why you shoot an armed man who is fleeing -- it prevents hostage taking."
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
In the shooting, police killed both the man with the knife, and the innocent hostage.
#8. To: Stoner (#6)
If I were an Officer, for situations like this I would carry in the car a very accurate AR " Patrol Rifle " equipped with an EOtech, or an Aimpoint, to make precise hits at distance
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
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