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Dash cam footage released of officer ramming suicidal suspect on crime spree (VIDEO)
The Marana Police Department recently released dash cam footage which shows an officer using his patrol car to ram an armed suspect in an effort to stop him after a crime spree in Arizona.
The height of the crime spree occurred when Mario Valencia entered a Walmart and stole a rifle and ammunition. Valencia had already allegedly stole from a convenience store, broke into a church and started a fire, committed a home invasion and stole a car before going to the store.
After abandoning the car in the parking lot, Valencia took off walking down the street with the rifle. When officers approached him, Valencia aimed the rifle at his head, at which point the officers initially backed down.
As Valencia lowered the rifle and started to walk away, an officer continued to follow him, but the dash cam audio captured the moment when a man and his child approached the officer, ensuring him that Valencia was no threat because the gun still had a lock on it from the store.
Moments later, Valencia fired a shot into the air.
And when the officer saw the opportunity to stop Valencia – by using his patrol car to ram him – he took it. However, Valencia’s attorney, Michelle Cohen-Metzger claims the officer’s move was an “obvious excessive use of force.”
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Source: http://www.guns.com/2015/04/15/dash-cam-footage-released-of-officer-ramming-suicidal-suspect-on-crime-spree-video/
