Fatal shooting by Farmington police of a motorist pulled over due to lack of car registration followed a tense exchange during which the man, Chase Allan, refused to cooperate with responding officers.
He maintained that he did not have to submit to their authority, leading the officers — five ultimately arrived on the scene — to try to forcibly remove him from the car. On seeing a gun, an officer shouted out — “Gun, gun, gun, gun, gun, gun, gun!” — prompting the officers to take a few steps back and start firing, Allan still seated in the auto.
Police say they saw an empty holster on Chase Allan’s right hip and a handgun lying on the driver-side floorboard of the car.
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If the guy was on a road he paved himself on land he owned, he'd have a point.
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