News: "UPDATE: FBI Probes Shooting of Barksdale Airman
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
The FBI is investigating the police shooting of a Barksdale Airman and veteran of the Iraq war. A video of the event shows Elio Carrion appeared to be following police orders. The shooting followed a high speed chase involving a Corvette. 21-year-old Carrion was the passenger, not the driver. On the amateur videotape, Carrion is on the ground. he appears trying to calm down a deputy yelling at him. 'I`m here on your side. All right?,' Carrion said to the officer. 'I served more time than you in the (bleep) police and the (bleep) military, ok?'
On the tape, it sounds like one of the deputies tells Carrion to get off the ground. He does and that`s followed by a number of shots. Police say Carrion was hit four times. The driver of the vehicle was eventually arrested.
Carrion is recovering at a California hospital listed in good condition. His wife says the deputy ought to be fired. 'Since my husband was surrendering, they shot him,' said Mariela Carrion. 'They shot him on the shoulder, on the chest, and one on his leg.'
The FBI is now looking into the case. Police are running their own investigation. Carrion was supposed to report to Barksdale Wednesday."
2 comments:
Having worked for a law enforcement agency (Ohio Assistant Attorney General's office 4 years) and having both sued and represented police officers, I'll say that the police have the toughest job in the World, bar none.
But they are far from infallible, and the use of video in these proceedings is of paramount importance, as I note in my two recent blawg entries and as you can see on my website, which will have a new short film in a day or two.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2006/02/video-in-civil-rights-cases-is-crucial.html
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2006/01/news-of-weird.html
no doubt on the tough job
but...and there's always a buttt....some people are attracted to jobs in which they get to flex a power that, if wielded elsewhere, would see THEM in prison, or on the end of a cop shooting.
--there's something wrong when you've been in a war, come home in one piece, only to get shot down at home
xxxevilgrinxxx
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