do the right thing or is this excessive force? 15 shots many even after the man was down.....

Sheesh

Also I was thinking there could of been many reasons that the man did not drop the knife.

1) He was suffering from a mental illness since he just stabbed the other man without any reason.

2) He was under such stress with a gun pointed at him he may of had a deer in the headlights type of reaction.

3) Looks like he may of been trying to drop the knife just before the officer unloaded his gun.

Look at the video. The guy is standing still with his hands up. He made no move towards the cops. He is in surrender mode.

It was an assassination.

There was no threat to the officers.

Judge, Jury and Executioner

I don't care what Juventino Bermudez-Arenas did, he deserved a trial. If they can execute an accused murderer who had his hands up, whats stopping them from executing you for acting in self defense or executing a victim?



John Winkler - Stabbed by a man then gunned down by deputies as he was trying to flee his attacker in Los Angeles, his killers still receive a paycheck.

for. SMH!!!

I can't seem to figure out how to post the link, so I'll just copy it below. Anyway, it's from the Portland Oregonian and has details about the case. Seems to me the police officers involved weren't all that trigger happy, given the circumstances, but I can see how some might come to that conclusion. Thing is, a 20-year-old college student was killed at random by someone he had never seen before. The reason for the murder may never be known, as you'll see in the article, and I'm guessing that even if the perp had survived his encounter with the police and gone to trial, even he would not be able to explain it. Oregon's current governor, just re-elected for another 4-year-term, has put a moratorium on the death penalty as long as he's in office, so execution would have been off the table for the present, even if the killer was convicted. Since I'm not a death penalty advocate, that's okay with me. But--

For me, the bottom line is, a fine young man who had every right to live out his life was brutally and fatally attacked; before he died he stated he did not know his killer and his last request was that someone text his Mom to tell her he loved her. That's heartbreaking enough for this grandmother with a grandson that age, and even now, reading the account, I'm brought to tears. I'm certain his family and the killer's family are more than heartbroken, but I'm not ready to condemn the officers' actions and proclaim them "bad cops". Read for yourself and decide. The last fatal police shooting in McMinnville was 25 years ago. Not exactly the record of a trigger-happy law enforcement agency.

Just MHO. Hope you might consider checking this out:


www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/12/da_investigation_finds_no_moti.html