New restraint shown by American police - they only shot this suspect 10 times.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bY5ioBvrYIg
Credits: CaptainSanjeezy
Dated: 2012-01-23

[ Emilie notes : For starters, why did the police need to escalate the situation by drawing their weapons rather than attempting to talk the suspect down. Then, even if their tasers did fail, they could easily have backed off, tried again, released the dog, found a shotgun with a baton round, or, all else failing, fired one round into the suspect's thigh. It isn't possible to do much harm with an axe while balanced on one leg. So there were *lots* of alternatives to killing this blatantly disturbed person by emptying a magazine into him; at least partially into his back.

However, despite the assertions made above, I see and hear no sign that a Taser was deployed. I hope somebody at the scene has checked for Taser chaff (numbered micro tags released when a Taser is fired, bearing the same identifier as the cartridge releasing them) to validate the allegation - and that the post mortem produces the characteristic taser wounds on the corpse. If there is proof that a Taser was correctly used, these police should be facing some very pointed questions, if not, they should be facing murder charges. Either way, they and the city should be facing a very impressive law suit followed by lots of zeros. Lethal force is never the answer to a medical condition, and is only ever the first resort in totalitarian states populated by incompetent idiots. Mind you, this is America, land of the one nation, under educated, who, extolling 1984 newspeak, imagine themselves to be free. ]

If anyone can please help me find Steven Rodriguez direct family i would greatly appreciate it, Ive had networks offer money for licensing rights to this video and upon denying them, i then thought that maybe his family could use this money for attorney expenses or whatever, if anyone knows this persons family and can message me through my YouTube account it would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

I know as some may think it is a disgrace to have this video up and online, it is only online because of a false report i read before posting about how a female officer stated that Steven swung twice at the officer which is completely false. thus the video is up to show the truth of what happened that day and throw away any hearsay or falsified reports.

Original VIDEO as seen on CBS KCAL ABC FOX and Univision34

To my account this is what i witnessed, this is only my view of what i saw while i was on the scene and NOTHING more.

After people were running out side of the Carls Jr. a man holding what looked like to be a metal pipe bender was walking very slowly and calmly toward the side of Carls Jr. very nonchalantly smashing in the windows with his weapon, he then walked into the fast food restaurant. while the suspect was inside the police arrived and set up to the right of the enterance. the police told the suspect, some command i was unable to hear, the suspect then walked out side and well the rest can be seen from the video, at the time it was believed that he was shot with rubber pellets and sadly that wasn't case. The suspect seemed to be shot 5 times while facing the officer and then shot at 5 times again while his back was turned to the officer, allegedly of course

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- A suspect armed with a crowbar was shot outside of a Carl's Jr. restaurant in Monterey Park on Monday morning.

Authorities say the incident began with the suspect breaking windows at Carl's Jr. in the 1200 block of Avenida Cesar Chavez just before 9:30 a.m. The suspect then walked inside, while workers and customers ran outside.

Police arrived as the suspect was exiting the fast-food restaurant. After repeatedly telling the suspect to drop the weapon, the suspect was Tasered. [ Emilie wonders : why this wasn't visible or audible? ]

Police said the Taser was ineffective, and the suspect swung the three-foot metal bar at officers twice. At least one officer opened fire on the suspect.

The suspect was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. [ Emilie says : Big surprise, not. ]

No one else was injured in the incident. The officer-involved shooting is under investigation.

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