Cop Shoots And Kills Man Holding Orange-Tipped Airsoft Gun

<img src="http://cdn.lastresistance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/toy-pistol-2.jpg" align="right" width="200">It was about 3 o’clock in the morning in Yakima, Washington when Officer Casey Gilette was on patrol and noticed a car parked outside a car wash. Apparently, the car had been parked there for an hour. So, Officer Gilette approached the vehicle on foot and opened the passenger side door and saw a man holding a gun. The gun turned out to be a plastic, orange-tipped Airsoft gun, but before that detail was confirmed, the patrolling officer fired four shots and eventually hit the man in the car Rocendo Arias in the head, killing him.
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Thanks to the police union contract that covers this department, officers involved in shootings like this have 48 hours to come up with their side of the story. Since the shooting about a week ago, Officer Gilette has been on administrative leave pending the department’s investigation of him. As it stands now, however, his department is backing him up and saying that he acted appropriately.

This case is similar to what happened to a young teenager in California who was walking around with a toy rifle. Police shot and killed him, because they believed the gun to be real, and the kid apparently didn’t put the gun down when commanded to by the police.

We can argue all day about whether it was a wise thing to do... read more at http://lastresistance.com/4375/cop-shoots-kills-man-holding-orange-tippe...