AZ - *GRAPHIC* Police officer fired after fatally shooting a wheelchair suspect, Tucson, 29 Nov 2021

[GuyfromCanada]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Tucson police officer has been fired after he was accused of shooting a shoplifting suspect in a wheelchair nine times, killing him, after the man brandished a knife, authorities said Tuesday.

Police announced at a news conference that Officer Ryan Remington was being terminated for excessive use of force.

Authorities said Richard Lee Richards, 61, died at the scene, and the shooting was recorded on Remington’s body camera.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT IN THE FOLLOWING LINKED YOUTUBE

Arizona officer fired after shooting of shoplifting suspect | AP News

Bodycam

 

[JayWill]

How absolutely awful. He was only fired? No charges?

 

[MrsWatson]

Well, that was terrible to watch.

And infuriating. Excessive force is putting it mildly. He wasn't up in their faces, he was a in a wheelchair rolling away. Even if he did wave a knife, he was hardly a threat to them. Just step out of the way, you know? Their first thought is to pull their weapons? On an older guy in a wheelchair. SHM.

Shocking.

all moo

 

[JayWill]

And then to handcuff when he was most likely dead and certainly dying. No medical care, just handcuffs. They shot him in the back.

 

[SaguaroSpirit]

I don't live far from where this happened. I don't know why RR couldn't have just knocked him over in the scooter and incapacitated him that way.

 

[TwoLea]

Warning - The video from the 2nd officer's body camera is wrenching. A lady in the store is also insanely fortunate not to have been shot.

Tucson police shooting: Man in wheelchair killed, Ryan Remington fired

 

[doublestop]

What the actual.... Wow. I see no reason whatsoever for them to shoot him, much less that many times.

 

[AlwaysShocked]

I look at this in a different way. The officer observed an alleged thief who was brandishing a knife and who failed to follow orders to "Stop!". In addition, the perp was heading back INTO the store where there were other customers.

Wheelchair or not, what if a mother with two small children was walking out of the store and the wheelchair guy reached out and grabbed one of the kids and put the knife to the child's neck? Stranger things have happened.

I don't know about the number of bullets. It seems that often the police empty their gun when they shoot and they don't aim for the legs, they go for the body mass. I don't know if it is their training or adrenaline that makes them shoot so many times, but they seem to do it a lot.

 

[JayWill]

I look at this in a different way. The officer observed an alleged thief who was brandishing a knife and who failed to follow orders to "Stop!". In addition, the perp was heading back INTO the store where there were other customers.

Wheelchair or not, what if a mother with two small children was walking out of the store and the wheelchair guy reached out and grabbed one of the kids and put the knife to the child's neck? Stranger things have happened.

I don't know about the number of bullets. It seems that often the police empty their gun when they shoot and they don't aim for the legs, they go for the body mass. I don't know if it is their training or adrenaline that makes them shoot so many times, but they seem to do it a lot.

I don't understand that. The man was accused of shoplifting not capital murder. That police could have stopped his wheelchair quite easily in IMO.

 

[cvaldez1975]

he should also be prosecuted.

 

[JayWill]

he should also be prosecuted.

I agree. He could have tipped him out of that wheelchair, easily.

 

[TwoLea]

His attorney told the press that he was "too close" to "safely" tase him. Maybe stop and let him scoot a few more feet then? "He had no non-lethal options."

Tucson officer fired after fatally shooting man 9 times from behind

 

[Betty P]

Sadly, officers like this shoot first without bothering to think. Poor training, I suppose. They reflect badly on more competent officers who don't panic so easily. JMO

I can't watch it, there have been too many of these grim videos lately.

 

[JayWill]

His attorney told the press that he was "too close" to "safely" tase him. Maybe stop and let him scoot a few more feet then? "He had no non-lethal options."

Tucson officer fired after fatally shooting man 9 times from behind

And shooting him was safer? For whom? He could hit shoppers with those bullets. He couldnt see who was going to walk out the door from the side.

 

[UnapologeticallyAspie]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Tucson police officer has been fired after he was accused of shooting a shoplifting suspect in a wheelchair nine times, killing him, after the man brandished a knife, authorities said Tuesday.

Police announced at a news conference that Officer Ryan Remington was being terminated for excessive use of force.

Authorities said Richard Lee Richards, 61, died at the scene, and the shooting was recorded on Remington’s body camera.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT IN THE FOLLOWING LINKED YOUTUBE

Arizona officer fired after shooting of shoplifting suspect | AP News

Bodycam

!!!!!!

 

[Willow Knight]

I will never, ever get that scene out of my mind. It's people like him that make it hard for real Police Officers. That person wearing a uniform does not reflect on all the good, decent officers we have.

I am so sorry to the real men in blue. And the family of the man killed.

 

[Willow Knight]

And Ryan Remington is going to appeal his termination according to his lawyer.

Tucson officer who killed a man in a wheelchair says he will likely appeal if fired

 

[UnapologeticallyAspie]

My husband just pointed out that the name Remington is also a gun manufacturer. How ironic. Good lordy.
m()()

 

[modesty blaise]

He is insane and the absolute temerity to appeal his firing.

 

[beatrixpotter]

I look at this in a different way. The officer observed an alleged thief who was brandishing a knife and who failed to follow orders to "Stop!". In addition, the perp was heading back INTO the store where there were other customers.

Wheelchair or not, what if a mother with two small children was walking out of the store and the wheelchair guy reached out and grabbed one of the kids and put the knife to the child's neck? Stranger things have happened.

I don't know about the number of bullets. It seems that often the police empty their gun when they shoot and they don't aim for the legs, they go for the body mass. I don't know if it is their training or adrenaline that makes them shoot so many times, but they seem to do it a lot.

As an actual mother of small children I can assure you I'd be vastly more concerned about a police rapid fire shooting in close quarters around my children and me with clearly no time put into assessing the risk to the people around the man vs an elderly man brandishing a knife in a clearly slow moving wheelchair.

Can you imagine the life long trauma of watching someone shot in the back in front of you? He was shot in the BACK while his wheelchair is barely scooting into the store. He literally couldn't walk or run away from the police on his own. He wasn't going to be snatching up kids while he slowly cruises by while being chased by police....