Police Officer speeds up and runs over man with gun - I applaud him

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[h=1]Dashcam video shows Arizona officer intentionally running over suspect[/h]By Brian Todd, Miguel Marquez and Steve Almasy
Updated 3:42 PM ET, Wed April 15, 2015



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Police chief: Hitting suspect with car was right decision 03:51



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  • Chief tells CNN that deadly force was warranted
  • Lawyer says police should have deescalated the situation
  • Incident happened February 19 in town near Tucson, Arizona

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<cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">(CNN)</cite>Police in Arizona said Tuesday that an officer who intentionally used his car to run into a suspect with a rifle probably saved lives.

Video of the incident has stirred debate about what type of force police should have used to detain a man with a gun.
"Everything in the video seems to point towards an obvious excessive use of force. It is miraculous that my client isn't dead," said attorney Michelle Cohen-Metzger.
The incident was recorded February 19 on the dashcam of two Marana police cars that were following the suspect, 36-year-old Mario Valencia.
In one video, an officer who was tailing Valencia at slow speed reports over the radio that the suspect has fired one round in the air with a rifle he is accused of stealing that morning from a Walmart.
Another patrol car zooms past, runs into the man from behind then hits a short cinder block wall next to a driveway. Video from Officer Michael Rapiejko's camera shows the officer running the man over and the windshield smashing as the car hits the wall.

"Oh Jesus Christ. Man down," the officer in the first car says.
Police in Marana, which is about a half-hour from Tucson, have justified Rapiejko's actions.
"If we're going to choose between maybe we'll let him go a little bit farther and see what happens, or we're going to take him out now and eliminate any opportunity he has to hurt somebody, you're going to err on the side of, in favor of the innocent people," Police Chief Terry Rozema said. "Without a doubt."
The situation warranted deadly force because the suspect was headed to an area where several hundred people were working, Rozema told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.
"This officer made a split-second decision, and in retrospect, when all the dust clears, I think we look at this and say, yeah, there's things we can learn from this," he said, "but the entire community is safe, all the officers are safe, and even the suspect in this case is safe."
Cohen-Metzger said officers didn't make any effort to de-escalate the situation of a man "clearly suicidal, clearly in crisis."
CNN affiliate KOLD reported Valencia was in serious condition when he was taken to the hospital and was released into police custody two days later.

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And before the race-bating idiots swarm the thread, No one cares what color the victim is, so STFU.
 
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Shortly after the incident, police said that Valencia was a suspect in a slew of crimes, including robbing a convenience store, breaking into a church while looking for money and a car theft, according to KOLD.
Shortly before his encounter with police, he was suspected of breaking into a Wal-Mart and leaving with a loaded gun. Police say the confrontation in question came after Valencia had fired the gun in the air. No officers were injured in the incident.
 

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I heard people are protesting over this.....
 

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Saw the news clip. He was walking down the street with a rifle to his throat threatening suicide. He had just stolen the rifle and ammo from Walmart.
 

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Wish he would have pulled the trigger. Now us working people have to support him.
 

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F@king awesome!!!!!!
 

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I love it, but, that cop will get in trouble for making the RIGHT move
 

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So you guys think the other cop(s) following the guy & monitoring the situation were wrong, and the other cop intervening to such an extreme event, was right?
 

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