http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-cops-respond-to-suicide-attempt-shoot-hispanic-man-and-then-find-out-hes-a-deputy/
The mother of a Texas deputy said this week that Laredo police officers did not have a good reason to shoot and kill her son after they showed up at his apartment to respond to an attempted suicide.
The Laredo Morning Times reported on Monday that two female officers responded to a suicide attempt at around 11 a.m.
The department said that the officers opened fire after “repeated commands to the individual who was armed with a handgun.”
The man was identified as 25-year-old Cesar Cuellar, a Webb County sheriff’s deputy.
Cuellar’s mother later told KGNS that officers overreacted.
“Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, don’t shoot, please, please, please. It’s my son,” the mother recalled telling the officers, according to a translation provided by the station. “Both of them were pointing at him. My son was like this with the gun pointed down, not saying a word. He was surprised, he was frozen. He didn’t say a word. They had scared him.”
“They shot him, they shot him once and then it took a while and after another boom again. It wasn’t continuous but my son never lifted his gun. Never,” she insisted. “They shot him without having to, not one reason.”
The woman said that her son would not have justice until the Laredo officers had their “guns and badges taken away.”
In a statement, Laredo Police Chief Raymond Garner promised that there would be a full investigation into the case.
well i guess the Texas cops thought they were serving his needs the call was about attempted suicide what better way for them to serve his needs even if gun was pointing down and he was not menacing and obviously not White. remember the guy standing at an intersection holding a rifle guess that comes under White privilege laws.
sad when you think about how many Black unarmed men have been killed or beaten and they were unarmed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
