The family of a Tulare man killed by police released video this week they said shows he was not a threat to officers, who shot him in the back as he fled. Joel Villegas was killed by Tulare police about 3:15 p.m. April 16 after a 911 caller reported seeing someone in the area of Bardsley Ave and Vetter Street with a knife, Tulare police said in a news release. Villegas, 34, was remembered by family as a doting father and a person others wanted to be around because he made them smile. “What they did was wrong,” older brother Armando Villegas said. “It was unfair to his wife and kids and family. He mattered.” His family released video from a Tulare officer's body-worn camera that shows the officer yelling commands as Villegas runs away from him. At one point he trips, before getting up again and continuing to flee. The video shows Villegas never advanced on police before officers fired several rounds. Officers in the video can be heard saying Villegas was not breathing before an officer begins CPR. The shooting was “so egregious,” according to Dale Galipo, the attorney representing one of Villegas's sons and his father.
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He was coming right at him! 🙄
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That's pretty bad. He straight up shot him in the back
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Rule number 1 in police academy...always cuff the dead.
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officer listens to ice spice moments before murdering running man
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the fuckin ice spice
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Nothin like listening to ice spice before gunning somebody down
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He should've thought about his kids when he ran from the cops with a knife
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The so-called officer had the audacity to call him "buddy" after he put bullets through him. Smh. Also listening to Ice 'fulla' Spice, really? Shake my fuckin head.
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Im here to help you...
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Well... not him but the community at large.
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If your gonna run might as well drop the knife so they might not shoot you
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is thi mfuka really listen to ice spice?🤣
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cop said 'turned and was charging at us' on the radio. fucked up
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Officer was even listening to icespice
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Well that seemed unnecessary... thanks for the content though!!!!
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blud listen ice spice
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shit caught me off guard 😂
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boys a liar yessir
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Police with Boys a liar on wow , Would never think this day would ever come
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arresting a dead body
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Snapshots:
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fucking cute twink pig
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I've seen officers get chased by a guy with a knife and the officer still backed up trying to shoot the guy and the guy gave the officer no choice. This guy was running away maybe should've waited for more units but I don't see the reason to put him down unless he killed somebody and you had a mad maniac running around with a knife that's different though if they actually are violent and hurting people by all means neutralize the threat. I don't know what he did to get the cops on him but unless he was dangerous I don't see it being justified.
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Tennessee V. Garner (1985)-Under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a police officer may use deadly force to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect only if the officer has a good-faith belief that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others. This would be the only way an officer would be justified with shooting a criminal in the back.
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Was the suspect really a threat though? Sure he had a knife but was he really a threat? He didn't charge at anyone with it. Now if he stabbed someone that's definitely justified. I don't really know enough about this to really say wheaten he was truly dangerous or not. If he got the police called on him because he was hurting people with a knife obviously shoot him. I don't know if he was just lost his mind or if he had real violent tendencies. But either way can't have a guy running around with a knife I suppose.
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Fleeing felon rule. It's justified.
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You shot him, dumb ass, how can he get up... and he's not even trying to attack you, coward
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