APNewsBreak: Officer in fatal shooting was disciplined twice
Source: Associated Press
APNewsBreak: Officer in fatal shooting was disciplined twice
Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press
Updated 7:59 pm, Friday, April 8, 2016
WINSLOW, Ariz. (AP) The Arizona police officer involved in a deadly shooting that sparked protests by members of the Navajo Nation has been disciplined twice in his three years in law enforcement, including for calling a girl a disparaging word and unnecessarily using his stun gun on a teenager.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is investigating the March 27 shooting of Loreal Tsingine in Winslow, which borders the reservation. Police say she struggled with officer Austin Shipley when he tried to arrest her and threatened him with scissors before he fired five shots. Critics, including Navajos, have called the shooting excessive and asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate race relations in the town.
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His first discipline came in 2013 when the mother of a 15-year-old girl complained that Shipley slammed her daughter against a squad car and made a "rude, ugly comment," records show. Shipley acknowledged responding harshly and was suspended, but the department didn't find evidence of excessive force.
He received another one-day suspension and was put on six months' probation this year for using his stun gun on a teenage girl, striking her in the back. Shipley wrote in his report that she repeatedly ignored his commands. Shipley said she possibly had a weapon, but police found no indication of that after reviewing body camera video.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/APNewsBreak-Reports-detail-discipline-of-Winslow-7237551.php
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Judi Lynn
(160,593 posts)Austin Shipley Officially Named as Killer of 27-Year-Old Navajo Woman on Easter
by Levi Rickert / Currents / 04 Apr 2016
Published April 4, 2016
WINSLOW, ARIZONA The Winslow Police Department asked the Arizona Department of Public Safety to release the name of their police officer that killed Loreal Juan Tsingine on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016. Austin Shipley was officially named on Monday, April 4, as the officer who killed Tsingine.
The police are sticking by its story that Tsingine physically resisted and threatened officers with scissors.
Officer Austin Shipley is a three-year veteran of the Winslow Police Department. He fired five shots during the physical altercation, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safetys release.
Criminal investigators have spent much of the last week in Winslow interviewing leads and conducting follow-up. The investigation is on-going.
More:
http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/austin-shipley-officially-named-killer-27-year-old-navajo-woman-easter/
Fred Drum
(293 posts)they can be confused sometimes
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coyote
(1,561 posts)5 feet tall and 100 pounds. If an officer cannot handle her without using a gun, then he should not be a police officer.
branford
(4,462 posts)However, your universal comment is ludicrous and represents a lack of understanding of what people are physically capable of and the nature of law enforcement and its procedures.
Every incident must be evaluated on its own merits, and such blanket statements demonstrably hurt the credibility of people trying to improve law enforcement tactics, procedures, training and hiring practices, and help ensure these types of situations can be avoided.
I assure you that small, young women can indeed engage in very serious and deadly violence, and to a dead or seriously injured officer or bystander and their families, it matters not at all whether an assailant was a small women or large man. In fact, underestimating a suspect can prove quite terminal.
It's distinctly possible, even probable, that this officer did not follow proper procedures or otherwise used grossly excessive force. Claiming that the type of force employed by the officer in this instance can never be warranted just because a suspect is a small woman is not helpful at all and certainly not evidence when seeking an indictment, no less at trial.
coyote
(1,561 posts)Compared to the rest of the civilized world. Somehow police around the world can somehow can accost their arrests without pulling out their guns, but in America you shoot first and ask questions later. I stand by my comment, not to mention his history of complaints from other women....as "ludicrous" as they may be to you.
Judi Lynn
(160,593 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Police want before they proceed with the only other eye witness in the morgue.
That usually works out in favor of the police.
marble falls
(57,145 posts)Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)marble falls
(57,145 posts)there just plain is no justice.
marble falls
(57,145 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,593 posts)May she rest in peace.'
Thank you for posting the photograph.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 10, 2016, 07:20 PM - Edit history (1)
For that shirt he has on alone!!! That is the so-called "3 Percenters"...Dumbass militia fools who think they will be part of only 3% of the population who stands up & fight the Federal Government! These are the same FOOLS who were with the Bundy's!!
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)An American Flag or t-shirt or whatever with the roman numeral "III" that is what it represents. They're NUTS!
Usually GUN NUT FREAKS (I'm a gun owner) thinking the Federal Government is going to launch some big operation to take everyone's guns & only 3% will be brave enough to stand up & fight! LOL!!!!! They're mostly militia types.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Only 3% of the population fought in the American Revolution vs the British...So in their PARANOID minds when the Federal Government comes to take everyone's guns, lock folks up in FEMA Camps or do whatever it is these GUN NUT militia freaks think is going to happen they will be the part of the 3% that will be brave enough to defend the nation vs the Federal Government! LOL!!!
...But they're almost ALL WHITE Christian NUT JOBS!!! Like the Bundys!!