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One of the six California police officers who fired a volley of bullets at Willie McCoy against a Vallejo Taco Bell had already shot down an unarmed man and is currently under investigation for an excessive force prosecution . A second officer had been sued by the family of a Vallejo teenager in a police brutality case.
Vallejo officer Ryan McMahon and five other police officers opened fire on McCoy, a 20-year-old aspiring rapper, after police officers woke him in his car during an early fast food operation. of the month. McCoy died on the scene.
The McCoy family's lawyer, who recently examined the young man's body, said he was shot about 25 times, including the face, throat, chest, ears and arms. His relatives described the death as "execution by a firing squad" and accused the police of racial profiling.
The ministry released the names of six officers Wednesday night in response to a request for registers from the Bay Area News Group. They were Ryan McMahon, Collin Eaton, Bryan Glick, Jordon Patzer, Anthony Romero-Cano and Mark Thompson.
Constable McMahon, who has been in the force for more than seven years, killed an unarmed black father with two children last year. On February 13, 2018, McMahon arrested Ronnell Foster, 32, who was cycling in downtown Vallejo. According to a complaint filed by the federal government, Foster escaped to an alley, prompting McMahon to pursue him and hit him on the head with a flashlight. McMahon finally shot Foster several times at the back and back of the head.
The department claimed that McMahon fired the fatal shots after Foster took the officer's flashlight and lifted it in a threatening manner, but an eyewitness disputed the story. The complaint indicated that there was no evidence that the officer had been injured in any way and, when he called the shooting at the shipment, his only statement was that Foster had fled.
It is unclear why McMahon followed or stopped Foster in the first place.
Foster left two children aged six and 14 years old.
A troubled history
The Vallejo Police Department, 30 km northeast of San Francisco, has a troubled history of claims of excessive force and controversial killings. McMahon is not the first departmental officer to be involved in several shootings. An officer killed three men in five months and was then promoted.
"Again and again we have these cases in Vallejo, and we never have discipline or training," said Melissa Nold, a human rights lawyer who represents McCoy's family. "That's why people continue to die … it's pretty disturbing."
Nold's law firm also represents Foster's relatives, whose civil lawsuit against McMahon and the city of Vallejo continues.
"It's rare for a police officer to use lethal force during his career," said Adante Pointer, a Foster family lawyer, stressing that it was particularly rare for the police to kill several people. "It is alarming … that he is placed in a position where he can harm and kill citizens again while there is still a dispute over the legality of his use of force."
Despite a steady stream of deaths, Vallejo officials did not seem interested in trying to reduce the use of lethal force, Nold said, "How do you train officers when they commit suicide on several occasions?" The lawyer said that McCoy's body was one of the most dangerous. troubling examples of police brutality and armed violence that she has seen during her career.
Agent Thompson was sued in 2013 by the family of Anton Barrett and his teenage son. Barrett was not armed when he was shot by Vallejo police the year before. Thompson was not involved in the shooting, but was accused of having directed his police dog towards the son of Barrett, Barrett's son, aged 19, after being handcuffed, according to the complaint . The officer was also charged with threatening to kill the son and have him called n-word. The teenager was found at the hospital with bites to the face and legs.
The city denied the allegations and the case was finally settled. Thompson has never been charged.
The Vallejo police did not respond to a request for comment, and McMahon and Thompson could not be reached immediately.
"We are mbadacred in the streets"
McCoy's badbadination on February 9 sparked national outrage and a remote video-taped video revealed that after the group of officers struck him deadly, they had sent him a whole series of orders.
The police claimed that McCoy had a handgun on his lap and that he "dropped his hands" when he woke up. The ministry did not release body camera footage.
Taco Bell had called 911 to report a man who seemed unconscious.
David Harrison, one of McCoy's cousins who helped him up, said on Thursday that he was not surprised to learn that one of the officers who had shot dead his loved one had already killed a man. man.
"It's not shocking to me because these guys are trained to do it," said 48-year-old Harrison at The Guardian. "We are simply helpless. We are like sheep driven to slaughter and we are slaughtered in the streets. "
Harrison said he hoped McMahon had to answer for his actions after the first murder, but said his cousin would probably still be dead, considering the involvement of five other officers.
"It's a bigger problem than this single officer," he said. "It's been so long … It's not just Willie. I want people to know that it could also be your child.
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