This is how the incident started.
Dashcam Footage From Fatal Shooting of Officer Darian Jarrotthttps://t.co/fFh4z7zwKj
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This case was an epic fuck up. The feds were investigating Omar Cueva, a known violent criminal who trafficked in guns and drugs. He was also known to have said that he was not going back to jail.
They were planning on using a high right HSI team to take him down but told NM State Police to pull him over on a window tint violation.
Officer Darian Jarrott was totally unprepared for the situation he was sent into.
This shooting led to a high-speed chase of Cueva.
Another officer brought it to a close with a PIT maneuver and a mag dump.
The thing to consider is that the officer who did it was shot and wounded before returning fire and ending the fight.
https://twitter.com/WarPath2pt0/status/1387936551796191235
Press released drone footage showing the end of the chase– pic.twitter.com/XhaMDANQPP
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The word hero gets overused noways, but in this case, I think it’s appropriate.
This officer took a 5.56, got back up, and put a cop-killer face down on the pavement permanently.
He stayed in the fight and got the job done, saving other officer’s lives.
The Feds in this case were pussies. They KNEW this guy was dangerous, and they coopted a local cop into walking into an ambush. State and local police agencies should remember this and refuse to work with the Feds.
That was pretty much my thoughts. The Feds dangled Officer Jarrott like bait on a hook. And just like in fishing, you might get the big fish or you might not, but the bait is gone either way.
The NM State Police’s mistake was trusting the Feds with their officer’s life, and then they: a. didn’t read him in to the real danger, and b. didn’t react fast enough to get in there and arrest the bad guy before s@#t went down. This disaster of a sting operation is entirely on them.
Never. Trust. The Feds.
RIP, Officer Darian Jarrott. My thoughts and prayers are with your loved ones and colleagues.
Damn, that is almost exactly what I thought happened when I first watched the video and saw the Homeland guy RIGHT THERE with the armor and the big medic bag.
I have my scanner on the interop channels the guys here (Houston) use for surveillance and this is what they do all the time. A team will be watching the suspect for a while, they chat about ‘developing PC’ for a traffic stop, then they send in a marked unit so they don’t blow their surveillance. Here, the marked units are part of the team and briefed in, based on their radio traffic.
I figured they just didn’t brief the first officer in, but sent him in cold, as he was way too casual in the stop. It’s also unclear to me why he had the suspect exit the vehicle, and why he lost track of the guy’s hands. That was a mistake that cost him his life.
Learning that he wasn’t part of the op and didn’t have all the information to make an informed judgement makes it even worse.
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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that a group of people who murder women and children for funsies would be callously neglectful of the well-being of a local they roped in to do their job for them.