New Video Emerges In 2014 LASD Shooting

By Bob Owens

Newly-released video is being used by the estate of a dead suspect to claim that his shooting last year amounts to “murder.”

I wouldn’t recommend rushing to that judgement.

Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department officers were struggling to arrest a non-compliant suspect, known gang member Noel Aguilar, in this 2014 incident.

“Officer 1” Albert Murade confiscates a handgun from suspect Aguilar and pushes it into the front of his pants to control it. “Officer 2” Jose Ruiz is not apparently aware Aguilar’s gun has been secured, and draws his duty weapon during the struggle with what he perceives as a still-armed suspect.

Officer Ruiz then discharges a round into his partner while struggling with suspect Aguilar. He doesn’t say anything. Based on his total lack of a reaction, he may not have been immediately aware that a shot was fired, or if so, that his gun fired it.

Instead of immediately complying with officers after the shot was fired and Officer Murade screamed he was hit (as someone with an IQ higher than his shoe size would do), Aguilar continues to struggle, and a second round is fired. It appeared to me that Aguilar and Officer Ruiz both had …Read the Rest

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