Two policemen will not be prosecuted despite shooting a suspect in California 76 times

Two police officers in California, United States, who fired 76 times on a suspect who had hallucinations, a drug and who was armed with a BB gun, will not be subject to criminal chargesannounced the authorities.

Officers Sean Staymates and Kevin Pederson of the Anaheim City Police Department, located about 40 kilometers southeast of Los Angeles, caused the death of Eliuth Penazola Nava, 50 years old, July 21, 2018.

The agents They chased Nava, who was driving a white vanafter his brother reported him as an armed man who hallucinated because he had been using drugs.

However, Nava was found on the scene with a BB gun and not with a firearm.. According to an internal report, police brutally shot him about nine times on the head, neck and upper part of the leather.

Pederson fired 64 shots at the suspect, even after he did not move, and Staymates fired a dozen of times

At the autopsy of the body, it was found that Nava, who had a "long criminal record", was under the influence of amphetamines and methamphetamines, according to a report from the NBC network.

However, despite the fact thatThe video posted by the Anaheim Police Department allows to appreciate the brutality of the police officers, the prosecutor's office He refused to file a complaint against them, although he described the incident as "irresponsible" and "alarming"..

But after the incident, Pederson was fired in July, a month after what had happened, while he was in his first year of "probationary period".And The roommates will be "disciplined", according to this Wednesday's announcement local police chief Jorge Cisneros.

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(Video: Anaheim Police Department)

"The overall performance of Pederson Officer was far from what the ministry and the community expected from us, "said Cisneros in a press conference.

Pederson said that he had repeatedly fired on Nava's head "for fear" of shooting at civilians. According to the internal report, Nava never indicated that he was going, for example by putting his hands on his head.

However, yes, you can hear it in the video shout "oh yes ah yes" with despair. In the official report, Nava also wore a knife in her right hand.

Nava, with a history of domestic violence and drug addiction, armed aggression and resistance to arrest, He was a potential suspect in the commission of crimes, so the police "were right to think that it was a significant threat," according to the police report..

The Anaheim Police Department has given additional training to its officers since December, said Cisneros. stressed a peaceful resolution without the use of force "in 99.9% of 200,000 meetings with suspects"What the local police had.