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Jorge Ivan Vasquez-Medrano shot by cops in El Paso, TX
“32-year old Jorge Ivan Vasquez-Medrano of the 3900 block of N. Piedras has been identified as the man who was shot by a five-year veteran of the El Paso Police Department Sunday morning. Police did not identify the police officer. Aug. 12, 2012 Story: A man is in critical but stable condition after being shot […]
Cops shoot victim in Perryton, TX
“Perryton Police were called out at 2 a.m. Saturday on a domestic disturbance call on Baylor street. When officers arrived, they found a man with a knife and a woman. The man with a knife then charged officers. The officers say they told the him to stop and he didn’t. The suspect was shot several […]
Two victims shot by police in separate incidents within minutes of each other in Quinlan, Texas
“The FBI surrounded a home in the Hunt County town of Quinlan around 6:30 Thursday morning. Agents were reportedly looking for a pair of bank robbers. The Greenville Herald-Banner reports at one point one of the suspects shot at the agents. The agents returned fire and wounded one of the suspect, who was taken to […]
Houston cop shoots at minors, saying they were trying to run him over – video
“It happened around 3:30am in a neighborhood along Ardmore near Pawnee. Houston police tell us Officer A. Bowie patrolling the Mainstay Suites on Old Spanish Trail when he noticed a suspicious man. A passerby told the officer that man had tried to steal his car. This parking lot reportedly has a history of burglaries. Officer […]
Everywhere, there are more cops shooting more people
In July 2012, with more than half the year over, police departments around the nation suddenly realized that their cops were shooting people at alarming and in many cases unprecedented rates. Here is a collection of articles about police departments trying to make sense of the carnage they have inflicted in the year 2012 in […]
Video Update – San Antonio cop handcuffs Alfred Aragon, then shoots him dead
“Chief William McManus said the officer, who was on duty, received a call from a female friend around 2 a.m. Friday. The friend, Abigail Hernandez, was at a nightclub and told the officer her ex-boyfriend, Alfredo Hector Aragon, was threatening her and she feared for her life. McManus said the officer picked up […]
San Antonio police officer goes on a personal shooting spree; 3 shootouts in 3 locations – video
“We’ve also learned that this is the location where an on-duty officer got into a shootout with an ex-boyfriend of one of that officer’s friends, and that he did die at that location. There’s a lot of missing components to this story… We do know that it all started around 2 o’clock in the morning […]
Southeast Dallas neighborhood responds to the killing of James Harper 31, unarmed, by cop Brian Rowden – video
“Brown told reporters that three officers arrived on scene on the 5300 block of Bourquin Street to find four men inside the home attempting to “scurry” out of doors and windows. Brown said officers saw a handgun on a table in the house. According to Brown, Ofc. Brian Rowden, an eight year veteran of the […]
Bloody Sunday – at least 6 victims of police shootings on 7/22: Abraham Mesino, 40, killed in Mount Pleasant, TX
In addition to the shootings in North Carolina, Tampa (2), Kansas City (Mo), Las Vegas, and of course what happened in Anaheim, this took place in Texas: “A domestic dispute ended in an officer involved shooting in Mount Pleasant, Texas. Last night around 11:30 p.m, Titus County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence […]
Boyd, dog and friend of Daniel Hall, shot and killed by police during reckless marijuana raid (7/8)
Daniel Hall’s dog, Boyd, was 10 years, two months, and 24 days old on July 9 but still spry. They’d played fetch together the day before. But that day, according to Hall, the golden retriever/rottweiler mix was lounging on the floor while Hall, his girlfriend and a friend sat on the couch watching Two and […]
Cops Shooting People 