TX - Gilbert Flores, 41, killed by LE on video, San Antonio, 28 Aug 2015

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Flores shooting filing: After 12 minutes, deputies agreed to ‘end this’

As a pair of Bexar County sheriff’s deputies had a 12-minute confrontation with domestic violence suspect Gilbert Flores on Aug. 28, 2015, one deputy turned to the other in a sign that they would not let the incident drag on and that they were going to follow a supervisor’s commands to “do whatever you have to do.”

The deputies agreed on “ending this” and opened fire, one after the other, just as Flores — who earlier had tried to stab them, took away a police Taser and came close to getting a deputy’s AR-15 rifle — had seemed to stop his erratic behavior and raised his hands above his head in what appeared to be surrender, according to new details recently obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.

The lawyers, with the Thomas J. Henry firm, say the deputies unreasonably used deadly force in violation of Flores’ constitutional rights. And, they argue the deputies gave conflicting details of what happened during the incident that went viral online because of a bystander’s video of the shooting that was broadcast by a local television station.

“There were a lot of inconsistencies,” Henry said.

“The mere fact that Vasquez and Sanchez discussed ‘ending this’ before the shooting of Gilbert Flores takes away the Defendant Deputies’ argument as to the immediate threat of harm at the moment of the shooting,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote. “At the moment deadly force was used, there was no imminent threat to justify it.

 

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https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-cops-civil-trial-begins-monday-for-killing-man-with-hands-up/

Nearly seven years after the videotaped killing of Gilbert Flores gained national attention for showing the shirtless man with his hands up shot to death in his driveway, the civil trial for the two deputies accused of using excessive force will begin Monday in federal court.

 

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