Off Duty Police Officer Fires Gun At Group Of Teens And The Teens Get Arrested

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https://twitter.com/knxbaird/status/835171837457768448

 

[Trillfate]

"Stop fighting for Mexicans" - ignorant posters

Its fighting against police brutality, period.

I honestly think the pig deserves an attempted murder charge

 

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https://twitter.com/avanconia/status/835231060782829572
https://twitter.com/avanconia/status/835231060782829572

More of the saltine perspective...

 

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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/officer-745007-police-hanna.html

Officer who discharged gun during Anaheim scuffle with teenager was in fear for his life, his lawyer says

A lawyer for the Los Angeles Police Department officer who discharged a gun while in a scuffle with teenagers in Anaheim earlier this week said Friday that his client feared for his and his sick father's safety during the incident and still does because of the subsequent protests.

Video that quickly went viral shows the off-duty officer detaining a 13-year-old boy and then, with other teenagers trying to free the youth, firing his weapon that had been tucked into the waistband of his pants.

The downward shot did not strike anyone but the footage made national news, angering many while some supported the officer.

Larry Hanna, a Van Nuys-based attorney, said his client reacted as he was trained to do.

“You have an officer who got hit in the face so hard that he’s bleeding and almost passes out, getting tackled from the side, having about 17 to 20 kids coming at him … that’s bad,” Hanna said. “He was in fear for his life.”

Hanna said the officer, who had a cut to his face, also believed during the Tuesday confrontation that the teenage boy might have a weapon.

“The first young man has hands in his pocket and the officer heard him say, ‘I’m going to shoot you. I’m going to shoot you.’”

At least two children who were there have said that the boy actually said, “I am going to sue you.”

Hanna said the officer took the threat seriously and defended himself and his father, who wouldn’t quickly be able to get out of the line of fire. His dad was outside with the officer.

“Thirteen-year-olds, 15-year-olds, people shoot the police,” the attorney said. “It doesn’t matter what your age is.”

The confrontation, police have said, was apparently ignited by an on-going problem of children walking across the officer’s property.

“What the officer would have liked to have done was to actually have taken cover, gotten out of the way and not been in the line of the fire of this young kid, but his father was behind him,” the lawyer said. “His father has an autoimmune muscular disease.

“He has two crutches and has a hard time walking,” Hanna. “The officer could get out of the way but his dad couldn’t and that’s what the problem was.”

Protestors have broken windows at the officer’s house, and vandalized a car on his property.

“The whole family… they’re scared,” Hanna said.

Anaheim police arrested the boy but not the officer, enraging many and prompting a destructive protest on the street of the officer’s home the next night, when 23 were arrested, including minors. They face such misdemeanor charges as failure to disperse, resisting arrest, and battery on a peace officer, Sgt. Daron Wyatt said.

The officer, whose name hasn’t been released, has worked with LAPD for just under five years. He was questioned by police and has been cooperative. The boy, and a 15-year-old boy also arrested, were released to their parents. Any of them could still be charged, Anaheim police said.

Hanna said his client has a good record as a police officer. The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing the force’s rank and file, supported the officer.

“There is no question … that when a police officer is attacked, they have the right to protect themselves, no matter the age of the offender,” the Protective League said in a statement.

He's using that tired ass "I was in fear" excuse.. SMH…

 

[marc123]

He was "standing his ground"

Smh. I try not have hate in my heart for some ppl but dudes that fuck boy cop make it hard af nh

 

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-officer-anaheim-20170227-story.html

LAPD identifies off-duty officer who fired gun during high-profile confrontation with teens in Anaheim

The Los Angeles Police Department on Monday released the name of the off-duty officer who fired his gun during what quickly became a highly charged confrontation with a group of teenagers in Anaheim.

The officer, Kevin Ferguson, is back on the job but is not working in the field, said Capt. Andy Neiman, an LAPD spokesman.

Ferguson works out of the Hollywood Division, officials said, but they provided no details of his specific assignment. State police records show Ferguson joined the LAPD in 2013.

The Anaheim Police Department’s investigation into the altercation, as well as a separate internal inquiry by the LAPD, are continuing, spokesmen for each agency said Monday.

A seemingly mundane dispute spun out of control on West Palais Road last week when Anaheim police say Ferguson confronted a group of teenagers walking across his property. Other teenagers pulled out their cameras, filming the officer as he held a 13-year-old boy by the collar of his sweatshirt, trying to detain him.

The situation quickly escalated from there. At one point, another teen rushed the officer, sending him tumbling over a line of bushes. The officer then reached into his jeans and drew a gun, firing a single shot.

No one was hurt by the gunfire, which Anaheim police said was aimed at the ground. But video of the encounter stirred an uproar across the country, prompting criticism of the off-duty officer’s actions and questions over why investigators arrested two teenagers — but not Ferguson — at the scene.

Larry Hanna, an attorney representing Ferguson, said the officer fired the shot to defuse an escalating situation. Ferguson had been punched in the face, Hanna said, and other teens were coming at him.

“That’s why he then fires one round in a place where there’s nobody standing, in a downward direction to make people scatter. And that’s what happened,” Hanna said. “His aim was to make sure that nobody got hurt — him or anybody else.”

Officials in Anaheim and Los Angeles said they were troubled by what they saw on videos of the clash that were posted on YouTube and Facebook. As many as 300 protesters descended on the neighborhood last week, resulting in 23 arrests.

“Like many, I am deeply disturbed and frankly angered by what it shows,” Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait said at a news conference. “The video shows an adult wrestling with a 13-year-old kid and ultimately firing a gun. … It should never have happened.”

The encounter unfolded around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday along West Palais Road, Anaheim police said. Chief Raul Quezada said the officer had been involved in a “ongoing dispute” with juveniles who “continually walked across his property.”

During the confrontation, Quezada said, the 13-year-old made a threat that “led the officer to believe that he was going to shoot him.” Ferguson then decided to try to detain the boy while waiting for Anaheim police to arrive, police said.

Hanna said Ferguson’s father had asked a girl to get off their property and was met with profanities. Ferguson started to intervene, Hanna said, when another teenager told him, “You can’t do that. I’m going to shoot you.”

“That’s what he heard,” Hanna said.

As Ferguson’s father called 911, Hanna said, the off-duty officer told the boy to take his hands out of his pockets. When the teenager complied, Hanna said, Ferguson decided to detain him until Anaheim police arrived.

Two online videos showing part of the confrontation show Ferguson grabbing the boy by his sweatshirt. In one video, the boy accused the officer of cursing at a girl who walked across his yard. The officer denied making such remarks.

Ferguson stumbled down the sidewalk with the boy, then pulled him into another yard, the video shows.

“You’re the one that’s going to jail, not me,” the boy tells him. “You’re starting all this.”

“You shouldn’t have made the threat that you were going to shoot me,” Ferguson later replies.

“I didn’t say that,” the boy retorts. “I said I was going to sue you.”

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[Trillfate]

^^^ smells like they're gonna let dude get away with it. No accountability right, but had that bullet ricochet and hit somebody then what?

 

[marc123]

^^^ smells like they're gonna let dude get away with it. No accountability right, but had that bullet ricochet and hit somebody then what?

classic america

 

[CapitalB]

^^^ smells like they're gonna let dude get away with it. No accountability right, but had that bullet ricochet and hit somebody then what?

they'd charge the 13yr old wit attempted murder..

or worse..

 

[D. Morgan]

^^^ smells like they're gonna let dude get away with it. No accountability right, but had that bullet ricochet and hit somebody then what?

He still walks free Peter Liang perfect example of precedent already being set.

 

[farris2k1]

But if a reg person lets off a shot to "diffuse" a situation, they prob gonna get arrested, like that nigga that done it when sean kingston was getting jumped, cop is a fucking bitch, if he cant handle some lil ass kid then his punk ass damn sure aint got the right mindframe to handle adults