Fremont Police Bring Guns & Tasers and Kill Man For Holding A Knife

FREMONT POLICE INVESTIGATE FATAL OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING

People living near Harvey Community Park in Fremont say they saw a man with a knife advancing towards a kid before officers shot the suspect.

FREMONT, Calif. (KGO) --
Friday afternoon police opened fire, killing a man they say was carrying a large knife near a neighborhood park. Witnesses described some terrifying moments leading up to the shooting.

It all started near Lake Arrowhead Avenue and Alvarado Boulevard and it ended at Harvey Community Park.

The coroner took the body and left the scene around 9 p.m. Police have not yet released the identity of the man who was shot and killed Friday. Fremont investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what led up to the use of deadly force.

"I looked at his face and I thought, he looks kind of... scary," Fremont resident Joanne Allison said.

Allison lives near Harvey Community Park in Fremont. She thinks she saw the man police killed and witnessed him fighting with another man before the shooting. It was around 2 p.m.

"He kept saying, 'Get away from me. Get away from me,' and he was backing up and the guy was going forward and the other guy was backing up," Allison said.

Allison says the man who was backing away was a young contractor, working on an empty house, and at one point, he called out to Allison. She recalled, "The guy said, 'Call the police. He's got a knife.'"

Allison did not see a knife and it was someone else who called police.

Fremont police spokeswoman Officer Geneva Bosques said the caller said, "there was a subject, walking down the street with a large knife and he had pulled it out and was advancing towards a young kid."

Three officers arrived and found the man at the park. One officer fired his Taser, another fired his gun and the man, described only as being in his 40s, was killed.

"We do know that the subject had the knife in his hand at the time of the encounter, but as to what exactly happened at that point is still to be determined through the investigation," Bosques said.

Police continue to interview witnesses and they ask anyone who might have surveillance video of the shooting to come forward.

Source: http://abc7news.com/news/fremont-police-investigate-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-/478614/

SDPD Cop Violently Assaults Two Rural/Metro Ambulance Crew Members #CALaw #CAEMS

Surveillance tape shows a San Diego cop assault two members of an ambulance crew.

San Diego cop claims he “feared for his life” after acting as the aggressor and approaching the two paramedics, who did nothing to him, and punching them.

San Diego, CA — A surveillance tape from a Golden Hill 7-Eleven was just released which shows a San Diego cop assault two members of an ambulance crew.

The trial began Tuesday for Anibal Solis, a parking enforcement officer with the SDPD, who is accused of attacking a paramedic and EMT from Rural/Metro.

During the trial Solis says he heard the paramedics call him a “Nazi.”

“As he’s holding the door, he hears it: ‘F*** Nazi.’ He sits in his vehicle. He says, ‘You know, this isn’t right,'” said attorney Michael Bordeaux.

The EMT and paramedic, Derek Shubin and Steve Cogle, say they never said that and never even spoke to the officer.

However, even if the paramedics did refer to Solis as a Nazi, it did not justify the the following aggressive actions of this cop.

VIDEO: Fight between parking enforcement officer, ambulance crew



The surveillance video shows that Solis came back into the store and aggressively approached Shubin.

“He got extremely heated and then he proceeded to tell me, ‘I will f*** you up,'” testified Shubin, “He moved his left hand into a fist … He grabbed my left arm and jerked my arm back.”

The video then appears to show Solis, who is a former amateur boxer, delivering a punch.

“I shoved him back and immediately when I shoved him back he took a swing, striking my right side jaw,” said Shubin.

At this point is when Cogle stepped in to help Shubin by placing Solis in a chokehold. According to ABC 10, prosecutors pointed out that Solis was still shouting and clearly breathing fine during the hold.

After he releases Solis from the chokehold, Cogle appears to try to diffuse the situation. Defense for Solis then made the predictable argument that Solis “feared for his life” after the chokehold, which is why instead of running away, he attacked Cogle.

The prosecution rightfully claims that the video clearly shows an aggressor acting not out of fear but out for blood.

Claiming to be in fear of his life in a situation which was entirely instigated by Solis, serves to illustrate just how easily that claim is thrown around.

Sadly, had the 7-Eleven not recorded this incident on surveillance cameras, it could be Cogle and Shubin on the other side of that court room aisle.

Solis is on desk duty pending the result of the trial, which should wrap up Wednesday according to ABC 10. Cogle and Shubin have also filed a civil suit against the city of San Diego.

Source at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-shows-san-diego-cop-beat-paramedics-7-eleven/#lQqOqd2U90Z0xuVh.99