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Ichingcarpenter

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Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:25 AM Jun 2014

Video Surfaces of Texas Police Executing Handcuffed Prisoner

City releases video of fatal police shooting of El Paso bodybuilder Daniel Saenz

An El Paso police officer pulled his Taser stun gun after he drew his handgun and fatally shot a handcuffed prisoner at the Downtown Jail last year, according to security camera footage released Monday by the city of El Paso.

The video of the March 8, 2013, shooting death of bodybuilder Daniel Saenz was released after the Texas Attorney General's Office ordered the city to comply with an open-records request made by the El Paso Times in February. The video was requested after a grand jury declined to indict Officer Jose Flores in the shooting.

Jim Jopling, a lawyer with the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) representing Flores, said in a statement that the group believes the grand jury cleared Flores because of "the totality of the circumstances, which include the long sequence of events that came before the shooting itself."

Saenz, 37, had been arrested that day on assault charges after allegedly attacking an off-duty police officer and staff at Del Sol Medical Center, where he had been taken after he was found exhibiting bizarre behavior at an Alberstons supermarket on Yarbrough Drive.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_25977240
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Video Surfaces of Texas Police Executing Handcuffed Prisoner (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jun 2014 OP
Not an accurate word jollyreaper2112 Jun 2014 #1

jollyreaper2112

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1. Not an accurate word
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:44 AM
Jun 2014

I don't take police at their word. If this is indeed as they describe, he was shot in the middle of a fight, not executed. Execution implies deliberate and premeditated murder of someone not in a position to resist. This man was cuffed but flexible enough to get his hands up front, very strong and violent.

Now there may be procedures that were not followed. What should be done when a person is very strong and violent and can't be reasoned with? He sounds like he was out of his mind. The cops reported he shrugged off taser charges. Do you get a squad of cops to drag him to a psych ward?

I would like to hear more before I pass judgment. Default position is distrusting cops but it doesn't sound like he was at fault. Maybe his supervisors are at fault, not putting enough people on this call.

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