“The man shot and killed by Santa Ana police officers on Friday was unarmed and running away from police who had stopped the car he was riding in, the car’s driver said Saturday,” according to the O.C. Register.
This guy was a bad guy with a long record, but this shooting, which happened in Santa Ana’s Sandpointe Neighborhood, comes on the heels of another recent incident where a woman was shot and killed by an SAPD officer, with a baby in her car.
What is going on in Santa Ana? Have our cops finally flipped with all the crime they have to deal with? Is this some kind of aberration of crazy macho trigger-happy behavior? Or are these cops innocent?
Somehow I doubt that the SAPD will tell us the truth.
What would you be saying if the cops didn’t do their job?
And this guy, who wasn’t going to be taken alive, had the chance to murder a bunch of inocent people in the home who’s fence he was jumping over?
cook,
Are you kidding? Santa Ana is already number one in violent crime in Orange County. of course they aren’t doing their jobs!
This shooting happened in a neighborhood. Innocent people could have been killed. Was it worth it?
Why are our cops suddenly so trigger-happy?
After so many people have complained about crime and graffiti and the gang shootings and drug war and other criminal activities going on the the city of Santa Ana and other cities of Orange County, After many of the local blog’s have criticized the apparent lack of action by the city and law enforcement, you are shocked at the outcome of increased enforcement aimed at the most violent known criminals preying upon us.
Art, I think you would see this differently if that hardened gang criminal was jumping over your fence to take hostage your family.
cook,
Well, do you know for a fact that this guy was going to take a hostage?
What about that mother that was shot last week?
What if a stray cop bullet killed a little kid?
I am all for going after the bad guys, but these actions seem pretty damn trigger-happy to me.
I hear ya, but the writer of the papers article is the one who slanted the reporting .
The woman with the child, come on, that was a “attempted murder / suicide“. She had many opportunities to stop and surrender. But she choose to rammed cars and was intent on suicide by cop, and worst, she was going to take her child with her. If I wrote that piece, the “by-line” would have been. “Suicidal woman shot and killed before she could murder her child. It fit’s the limited information from the newspaper article.
With a bunch of cops getting killed in the line of duty these past months, I expect that the violent suspects will likely be shot before they have a chance to kill first.
I hope you follow up on these two cop involved shootings when the final reports come out
I agree with Cook. I live very close to where this happened and I don’t need known criminals hanging out where I live. Police do an incrediable job protecting us and never get the credit they deserve. They are human and mistakes happen but, just think what it would be like to live without them. I am grateful to those officers who put their lives on the line everyday to help protect us civilians. I don’t understand why the public is so quick to judge police who face things daily that we can’t even imagine if it where not for them we wouldn’t have to try and imagine, we would know.
This is no obscurity for residence in Santa Ana. Nor is the attitude of law enforcement, towards the very same residents they “serve & protect” or I like to say “chastise & convict”. We live with it, we deal with it. It’s just unfortunate for the family. Parents, sibblings, will mourn. Friends, affiliations, will retaliate in any manner they can. Crime has not risen, desperate times due to tough economic times = more G’s willing to die just to survive.
Art would find fault with anything SAPD did.