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Analysis of why Enio Carrion was shot |
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by Charles Joseph Smith
Email: charlessmith702210 (nospam) sbcglobal.net (unverified!)
Phone: (773)355-0351
Address: 1710 W. 106th Street, Chicago, IL 60643 |
08 Feb 2006
Modified: 04:43:28 PM |
You may have seen the graphic tape of Enio
Carrion being confronted--and shot--by police officers in Chino, California. There are
pre-conceived rumors that this is police
brutality, but I believe this is not the case. |
I very deeply regret what happened to Enio
Carrion. (He is Latino, and I know Spanish,
so his last name is pronounced "care-ee-
OOHN.").
He was the Air Force senior member who was shot by a California police officer in Chino, CA, after being pulled over on a highway. He was a passenger in a Corvette and a driver of the Corvette
was flagged by police for evading. When the driver stopped, this is when the fireworks exploded.
Almost all of you who had watched local TV broadcast news or even IM news had seen the graphic videotape of Enio pleading with officers who ordered Enio to get up---and then Enio getting up as he is told---and then the "BANG!
BANG! BANG!" as one officer hits Enio with several bullets--and you know what happens---Enio falls to the ground.
Why did he get shot even if he followed police orders?
What had happened was that the officer who
shot him did the shooting because the officer was on a very high adrenalin rush. Probably extremely high. Although
Enio said to him that he did not have a weapon, what happened was that he got up but he got up way too fast. So fast that the officer believed that Enio could dash at the officer like a raging bull and take the officer's gun away. This was the reason why Enio was shot.
What Enio should have done was correct, but next time he is ordered to "get up" by a police officer, YOU MUST GET UP SLOWLY AND WITHOUT ANY SUDDEN MOVEMENTS.
Any sudden movement especially at a police officer who is pointing the gun at you almost always will cause the officer to use deadly force immediately. I have to disclaim that I am not a police officer but I had seen a lot of police movies and police dramas. Police officers--most of them--had been trained to
deal with even unarmed threats, and sometimes they have to do them with
sometimes injurious results when the
threat becomes dangerous to officers.
Fortunately, news reports revealed that the shots came from a Black police officer but I am worried still that this shooting will be
over-glamourized and cause minorities to
retrospect the infamous Rodney King beating
by LAPD officers in the early 1990s and the ensuing LA riots that exploded when the 4 officers who were charged with the beating
were set free after a criminal trial. Hence,
I fear that this could be another case of the
so-called police brutality that is still happening in the United States.
To the family of Enio Carrion, I want to elicit my deep
sympathy on this very unforunate incident and I hope after the tragedy subsides, that
incidents like this should never happen in the first place. |
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