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Orange tip. no orange grip. so if this were to be pulled out on a police off se, there is no telling which one is real, and which one is fake. for luna, the photos and the dash cam video are constant reminders of how close the encounter came to ending in tragedy. no, i don t care. get on the ground. i am grateful on this day, they did not have to take the life of a teenager. get on the ground now! as police officers, we swore an oath to protect and serve. we come to work to protect the public, and at the end of the shift, the most important thing is for me to get home to my wife and teenaged daughter. coming up. extremely fast, and extremely dangerous. he is trying to hit people headon or force people off of the road. when caught on camera, dash cam diaries continues. ....
Weapon. the 911 caller said that the gun was tucked into the suspect s waistband. as the the dash cam video rolls, you can see that the young man s sweatshirt is completely pulled down, covering his waistband and any possible weapon. get on the ground now. get down. no, i don t care. get on the ground. two of the teens are sitting on the sidewalk, but they don t follow luna s orders. keep your hands where i can see them. and i have to yell louder to tell them, hey, this is not a game. get your hands up. do not move. keep your hands up. and they are still putting the hands in the pocket, and one with an ipod and they are not listening to me. but luna keeps his cool and the finger off of the trigger. there was never no anxiety and i knew that my backup was down the road and i had several units comi coming, and i trust the guys that i work with to get there very quickly. do not lose, guys, do you ....
Split-second decision to take the life and not have time to think about it if that gun is real or fake. luna s quick thinking under pressure prevented a tragedy, but not every incident has the same outcome. just six weeks earlier in cleveland, ohio, a 12-year-old boy named tamir rice was playing on the street with a b.b. gun, and even pointing it at people as they walked by him. when police arrived on the scene, all they saw was a gun, and in at matter of seconds an officer shot and killed tamir. it was a case that became highly controverle shall, and part of the growing national dialogue about police use of deadly force. everybody that i have talked to has compared my call to the call in cleveland. it could have turned out like that if that teenager would have pulled out a handgun when i arrived, because i am not waiting to find out if it is a fake gun. i ap map the way it turned out. i could not be happier. ....
Understand. and a backup unit arrives less than a minute, and the officers frisk the three s suspects. the handgun was located in the teenager waistband who had on the gray sweater, hoodie. but as the suspect claims, it is in fact a b.b. gun. he says he has a fake gun, but i don t know. this b.b. gun looks so real that anybody, a civilian or police officer, if it was pulled out would have believed it is a real handgun, all three subjects are alive because i did not see a e weapon displayed at all. the teens are released and officer luna finishes his shift. later that night, he replays the incident in his head. did not think about it until i got home later how close i came to taking a life that day. if that handgun was pulled out on the police officer, that officer would have a ....
Sweater is walking towards me. as i am looking at the other two teens, they are making movements to the pocket, and at that time, i dont n t know if there are multiple weapons involved, and i am giving the loud verbal command, and hands up, stop, stop. but the suspect in gray does not stop. he is saying that it is a b.b. gun, and it is not real. i don t know that, and i dont n don t know if that is a distraction as the subject, the teen abler is still approaching me. the suspected are considered armed because of the 911 calls and ignoring the commands. at this point, luna is authorized to use deadly force, but he does not pull the trigger. i believe until i saw a weapon being pulled from a waistband is when i would have used deadly force. but until then, i needed to see a weapon being displayed. but luna doesn t see a ....