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"When a policeman end up with a threat doing the right thing". Patricia Bullrich, Minister of National Security, slapped policeman in the city Esteban Ramirez, who strikes completely with a kick in the chest Juan Gomez and the caused death by banging his head on the floor. Bullrich's arguments were the same as those he had used to defend the police Luis Chocobarwho killed a young man in the back who had stolen something in his mouth. The argument of the head of the Ministry of National Security was closed by a complaint: "He was not lucky". Shortly after the minister opened openly to support the police, Ramírez's luck improved and he was released on bail.

Like the day before, I had jumped Marcelo D'AlessandroSecretary of State for Justice and Security of the City and only official of Buenos Aires to have made statements, the death of Gomez was the occasion for Bullrich to say that "the best would be that the police have a proper weapon, the Taser "The mention of the electric shock gun was absurd: the impact of the discharge would have collapsed Gomez with the same toughness as the policeman's kick, and all would have deserved the same regret from Bullrich: "He was unlucky."

In an interview on the radio, Bullrich said that "the policeman was protecting the citizens of a threatened and violent person against the citizens". "We can not see the video without understanding the context according to which it was a person who generated a threat," added the minister, who immediately implied the context: "(Gomez) had a knife that is one of the most dangerous weapons that a person can have because if someone approaches him, he can kill him with it ".

Although in the viralized video, Gomez does not show a knife, though it was true that he possessed it, he was not in sight, he did not manipulate it and did not threaten him no more. The video that published Page | 12, now with 25 seconds more, before the viralized scene, shows that the context of which Bullrich speaks denies the "threatening situation".

In the 25 seconds preceding the scene, as can be seen in the new extension of the video, this journal obtained from the account of OCIVI Tuitter (Observatory against institutional violence) [email protected]) – We see Gomez standing in a corner of Saavedra Street, about 20 or 30 meters before the place where he was hit by the police. We see him standing up while maintaining balance with difficulty. In the opposite corner, you see a policewoman who controls the actions. A cyclist pbades in the direction of San Telmo by Carlos Calvo without being disturbed by Gomez. Then a white car going in the opposite direction. Gomez begins to stagger on the bike path. Seconds later, the first motorcyclist arrives and leaves the bike in the opposite direction. Ramírez immediately arrives with his motorcycle with which he crosses it, about five or ten meters before Gomez. The local policewoman approaches. Same as the other motorcyclist. The other policeman appears at the corner of Saavedra. At that moment, Ramírez starts to play and when Gomez has already fallen, a policeman arrives.

This is the context of which Bullrich makes no mention: a man who can hardly bear, hands on the back, surrounded by three and then four policemen, one in front and three in back. The uniforms are in absolute control of the situation. For Bullrich, ending the threat was to strike the man violently.

Bullrich, to emphasize what is already useless because it is in sight, compared the crime committed Monday morning in the bike of Carlos Calvo, with that of La Boca. "We've already seen it in the famous case of the American tourist," referring to Chocobar, the policeman supported by Macri when he was invited to Casa Rosada.

"Obviously, the methodology was not the best," Bullrich said. The best thing to do would have been that the police have a weapon suited to this situation, a Taser, "he said in an interview with Radio La Red Bullrich did not explain how Gomez would have avoided banging his head against the ground.

"Bad luck"

The minister called it an "unfortunate result". He added that the police "did not seek" this end and even defended him for "not having used his weapon". Inspector Ramírez "had his weapon and had no deadly capability, he used his body with the bad luck that the person hit his head on the ground and died "he commented. The karate kick of a policeman, trained to make this shot effective, can be considered a melee weapon of combat, as determined by the punch of a professional boxer (as in the case of the blow that Carlos Monzón gave Alicia Muñiz).

According to Bullrich, the interpretation of the facts should be as follows: "There was a lawsuit to put an end to a threat. And when (a policeman) does that, he does what's right. He could have kicked a lighter or lighter kick.but what he did was "want to reduce" the supposed threat.

The head of the Criminal and Correctional Court 8, Yamile Bernan, decided to release Ramírez under oath of caution, believing that the investigation was unlikely to be lost or hindered from a procedural point of view. Prosecutor Ana Yacobucci, meanwhile, had opposed the release because she understood that as a police officer, the defendant could only interfere with the investigation. The defender of Ramírez, his lawyer, Raúl Alcalde, is the same one who had defended the former chief of police, José Potocar, the first head of the municipal police appointed by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Curiously, neither the head of government of Buenos Aires, nor Diego Santilli, deputy chief and, as Minister of Security, chief of the police of the city, did mention the kick of Ramírez, the Tasers or the "misfortune" of Gomez.