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Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIM_Was_Better/with_replies (Nitter)

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A man has set himself on fire outside the New York courtroom where Donald Trump's hush money trial is taking place.

Moments after a full jury had been selected to hear the trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, the man's body was reportedly engulfed in flames for at least three minutes outside.

A CNN anchor said on air: “I see a totally charred human being.”

The man used a flammable liquid to set himself on fire in the designated protest area outside the court, with horrified bystanders screaming and fleeing.

US media has named the victim as Maxwell Azzarello, from St Augustine in Florida.

In a press conference, police said he appeared to be a “conspiracy theorist” and said he threw around “propaganda” containing claims about Ponzi schemes and the mafia before starting the fire.

Police said Mr Azzarello had poured an alcohol-based cleaning liquid on himself before lighting the fire, and that he had been taken to a local burn unit in a critical condition.

Mr Azzarello published a blog post on Friday that opened with the words: “My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.”

The rest of the post made only a handful of references to Mr Trump, apart from claiming he was a member of a “secret kleptocracy” along with every previous president and their election rival.

Police with fire extinguishers rushed to the scene. Sirens could be heard blaring as correspondents reported smelling the burning of flesh. The heat of the flames could be felt from 100ft away, the New York Times reported.

A smouldering backpack and a gas can were visible afterwards, according to one witness. Police taped off the scene.

Broadcasters recorded what happened – some then cut away and apologised for showing the footage – through the metal barricades in place for Mr Trump's trial. The scene is close to several courthouses and other buildings.

A New York Police Department spokesman said: “A male did light himself on fire outside of the Supreme Courthouse. We're still gathering details from the field.”

Mr Trump did not respond to questions from reporters about the incident. His campaign offered “condolences to the traumatised witnesses” and paid tribute to “the great first responders of the City of New York”.

Mr Trump's criminal trial is being conducted amid tight security in a 15th floor courtroom swarming with Secret Service officers as well as court police.

The New York Police Department has promised a major deployment to ensure that the trial passes off safely, with John Hart, the force's head of intelligence calling it a “major challenge”.

The 12 jurors, along with six alternates, will consider evidence in the first ever criminal trial to determine whether a former US president is guilty of breaking the law.


HIS MANIFESTO

My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery:

We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.

These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie. If you follow this story and the links below, you will discover the rotten truth of ‘post-truth America'. You will learn the scariest and stupidest story in world history. And you will realize that we are all in a desperate state of emergency that requires your action.

To my friends and family, witnesses and first responders, I deeply apologize for inflicting this pain upon you. But I assure you it is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government intends to inflict.

Because these words are true, this is an act of revolution.

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Last March, a billionaire named Peter Thiel started a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank. I knew enough about Thiel that I found this incredibly suspicious: My hunch was that this was intentional, though I couldn't fathom why.

I began investigating online, and quickly found cryptocurrency's fingerprints all over it. The bank run occurred just days after Silvergate Bank – which catered almost exclusively to crypto companies – collapsed. Meanwhile, several crypto cheerleaders were all over financial media warning of a regional banking crisis, and nobody in media was addressing the clear crypto connections.

I dug deep into the financials of Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund and eventually uncovered the following, all proven many times over.

  • Cryptocurrency is our first planetary multi-trillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. It was expressly created for this purpose by a laundry list of rich and powerful people out of Stanford/Silicon Valley and Harvard/Facebook.

  • The March 2023 bank failures were all intentional: the banks were used to move out stolen Ponzi money. This signals that they're no longer dumping cash in to keep the cryptocurrency Ponzi afloat, and that it will soon go insolvent, as all Ponzis must.

  • When the Ponzi scheme goes insolvent, it will take down half the stock market with it: The perpetrators used their major companies to pipe into the blockchain so they could funnel money out from the crypto exchanges. This includes Google, Tesla, Apple, PayPal, Facebook, Disney, Walmart, Target, InBev, Zoom, and countless others.

  • It is a Ponzi scheme so large that it created global inflation, which is why the price of Bitcoin has been a remarkable leading indicator for inflation rates. Victims who bought crypto don't realize their money has already been stolen, so the money gets double-counted by the victims and the criminals who stole it.

  • As it turns out, our elites are awash in Ponzi schemes. Stanford's StartX.com investment fund and Jeffrey Epstein's ‘Program for Evolutionary Dynamics' he ran at Harvard are both fake-science Ponzi factories that these schools have invested billions in: They are filled with fraudulent companies that use smoke and mirrors to promise miraculous new technology, but always collapse while the perpetrators only get richer.

  • Funneling trillions of dollars in stolen cash through the stock market created the largest stock-market anomaly in history. The stock chart signature of a Ponzi scheme is a massive increase (while they stack up cash) and then a massive fall (as they funnel out the stolen cash). This chart shape appeared in all the companies listed above. In order to explain the massive anomaly, our criminal government unleashed COVID on the world and told us these were the “stay at home stocks.”

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Ponzi schemes are vicious beasts, and cryptocurrency is history's largest Ponzi by orders of magnitude. It could best be described as an economic doomsday device, intentionally made to shatter the world economy.

The U.S. government is fully involved in this totalitarian con: To illustrate its bipartisan support, I'll note that nearly every participant of the Clinton Global Initiative has ties to cryptocurrency, while two of the biggest tech VCs who participated are Trump associates Josh Kushner and Anthony Scaramucci.

To better understand our form of government, I will point you to one of the most astonishing pieces of stand-alone evidence I've found: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's 1988 DNC speech where he nominated Mike Dukakis for president against George H.W. Bush. The speech is a vile, mean-spirited roast of Dukakis that makes no sense whatsoever: For Clinton to ruthlessly attack a member of his own party should have been political suicide, and he repeatedly mocks Dukakis' noble and earnest qualities.

Notably, actor Rob Lowe, who was supporting Dukakis, was victim of a teen sex blackmail operation at the DNC that year. Since we know Clinton is a close associate with teen sex blackmail artist Jeffrey Epstein, we can suddenly make perfect sense of the nonsensical speech by applying this lens: Bill Clinton is a cocky mob boss who blackmailed Mike Dukakis because Dukakis thought his job was to help the public. He teases out the future public revelation that Kitty Dukakis drank rubbing alcohol, and offers a strange anecdote about the crack epidemic that reveals he is an exceedingly proud drug runner.

What does this revelation tell us? That our government is conning us completely. That Bill Clinton was secretly on (former CIA Director) George H.W. Bush's side, and that the Democrat vs. Republican division has been entirely manufactured ever since: Clinton is with Bush; Gore is with Bush; Trump is with Hillary, and so on. When they present themselves in public, they are acting as characters that are against one another, practicing kayfabe as wrestlers do.

As it turns out, we have a secret kleptocracy: Both parties are run by financial criminals whose only goals are to divide, deceive, and bleed us dry. They divide the public against itself and blame the other party while everything gets worse and more expensive and handful of people take all the money.

Since it is fully parasitic, a secret kleptocracy is an incredibly unstable form of government – left to its own devices, it can only lead to fascism or failed state.

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One of the key findings of this research is that Harvard University is one of the largest organized crime fronts in history, which is how they churn out billionaires – it's a major hub of this sprawling criminal network.

As it turns out, dozens of the writers of The Simpsons went to Harvard. So I asked myself the question: If The Simpsons served the interests of organized crime, how would it do so?

Well, it offers a dysfunctional family suffering from moral decay, a community incapable of solving its problems, a worker drone who slaves away for an evil billionaire, and cathartic laughs for our poor collective circumstances.

There are some notable specifics as it relates to this research, too: In Marge vs. The Monorail, the townsfolk are too oafish and divided to invest in the town's needs (fix Main Street) and fall for the charms of a dazzling showman with a bogus monorail Ponzi scheme. When we know that the show is closely linked to an organization that invests billions of dollars in Ponzi factories, this becomes quite damning.

In Lisa the Iconoclast, Lisa discovers that town founder Jebediah Springfield was a secret criminal con artist, and that the townsfolk's lives are a lie. Realizing this is an important discovery, she desperately tries to get the townsfolk to listen to her. But they meet her with hostility, apathy, disbelief, and partisanship and she fails to get through to them. Ultimately, she realizes the town is so far gone that perhaps it's better for them to be lied to by con artists, and she keeps the secret to herself.

And here I've been, like Lisa Simpson, desperately trying to get friends, family, and the public to believe the proof of a totalitarian con I'm trying to show them, and they've turned away with hostility, apathy, disbelief, and partisanship.

And so, we realize the criminal truth of The Simpsons: Our elites are telling us that our eroding collective circumstances are our own fault, and we can't do anything about it, while they steal the American Dream from us. It is, for lack of a more elegant word, brainwashing.

—Lastly, we string these major discoveries together: Cryptocurrency is an economic doomsday device; our government is a secret kleptocracy; The Simpsons exists to brainwash us. From there, the only research we need is critical thinking and we're able to piece together the true story of our circumstances.

Consider America since 1988: Institutions like healthcare and universities have become parasitic in their skyrocketing prices. News media tells us to be angry and tribalized. Daytime television warns us of moral decay. Local news tell us to fear our neighbors. The Simpsons tells us we're too oafish and divided to save the American Dream. Seinfeld tells us to celebrate the assholes and be irritated by all the normal people around us. “Reality” TV tells us that real life is filled with hedonism and strife.

Social media, owned by crypto criminals like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, is flooded with nonsense conspiracy theories and memes reminding us that we are hopeless, helpless, anxious, depressed, ironic, scared, apathetic, escapist, lonely, misguided, and jaded, telling us we can't do anything but have a laugh at our circumstances.

Liberals mock the hypocrisy of conservatives; conservatives mock the hypocrisy of liberals, and our collective circumstances erode. The left shouts “All Cops Are Bastards,” which ensures they'll be hated by the police and the public (and flies in the face of leftist theory). The public's distrust of the government is at an all-time high, but so is the belief that we are helpless to do anything about it.

And with all this, a sharp rise in apocalyptic messaging: Climate change will kill us all; COVID will kill us all; vaccines will kill us all; AI will kill us all – no matter the bubbles we ascribe to, we're bombarded with existential crises with no solutions. We've seen a surge in apocalyptic film, literature, and video games that tell us there is no way out of our poor circumstances but total societal breakdown. Zombies tell us that the public is our enemy. If you go to your nearest convenience store, you can buy a can of water called “Liquid Death.”

This is our rotten farce: For our entire lives, we have been flooded with media designed to slowly steer us into a world where the American Dream was dead, where the public was fully divided against itself, where everybody believed we were powerless to do anything about our worsening circumstances. It is all so they can organize an unprecedented, apocalyptic rug pull on the entire populace as they pivot to fascism, which is perhaps best understood as kleptocracy at the barrel of a gun.

When we piece it all together, we understand the truth: We are in a totalitarian doomsday cult.

Why on earth would our elites do this? There are many reasons, but the simplest is because capitalism is unsustainable, and they knew it: Climate change and resource extraction would catch up eventually. So, they never intended to sustain it. They knew all along that they would gobble up all the wealth they could, and then yank the rug out from under us so they could pivot to a hellish fascist dystopia.

—Things escalated wildly in 1988 when former CIA Director George H.W. Bush got the White House, but this plan had been in action long prior:

Why is Stanley Kubrick's comedy about mutually assured destruction called Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Because he was a cocky secret fascist who was getting us to stop worrying and love the bomb. Why did he make A Clockwork Orange? So we'd rejoice at ultra-violence designed to desensitize us to the horrors of the world.

Why were the Manson Family murders crawling with cover-ups and intelligence agents? Because our government wanted to make us fear for our lives and believe that hippies are deranged psychopaths.

Why did Walt Disney produce a fraudulent documentary that told us Lemmings follow each other off cliffs? So we would believe it.

Why did The Beatles tell us to fear the taxman, to scoff at revolution, chase nonsense conspiracy theories, and that happiness is a warm gun? So we would believe it.

Why did Easy Rider tell us that the hippie movement was dead? So we would believe it.

Why did Chinatown end with defeatism in the face of massive corruption? So we would believe it.

Why did George Orwell tell us of a hellish future of totalitarian control that we are powerless to stop? So we would believe it.

Why did Wall Street tell us “greed is good”? So we would believe it.

Why did Do The Right Thing tell us we're all racially tribalized? So we would believe it.

Why did Simpsons creator Matt Groening make a comic strip called Life in Hell? So we would believe it.

And on, and on, and on, and on. When it comes to any popular media, if you ask yourself the question, “Why would secret doomsday cult kleptocrats want the public to consume this?”, you will find your answers.

—This is obviously very bad news, but the biggest lie we've been told is that we are powerless. We've got one way out of hellworld, and that's for the public to realize that we've been conned completely so we can build a united movement that shatters every lie they've told us, mocks this rotten farce as loudly as it deserves, and aims at nothing short of abolishing our criminal government so we can build one that serves the public.

To understand this story is to see right through the con, to become immune to the endless sea of criminal propaganda, and to feel the great joy and power that comes with freedom.

If a small number of people quickly put on these truth-colored glasses, we are in for an unimaginably bright future. If not, we get an apocalypse.

For more information, I've put together this booklet that includes other major findings and a map to a sea of proof, along with all the other essays on this site.

For the true history of America since the end of World War II, see here.

To see this discovery unfold in real-time, along with further explanations, hundreds of pieces of evidence not covered here, advice, inspiration, political theory, and the heart and soul of a man escaping history's largest doomsday cult, see my Instagram story highlights. I apologize for leaving things so scattered, but this has been an exhausting affair. So long as you understand this (true) ideology, you will be able to learn the whole story.

Here is a federal lawsuit I filed against dozens of perpetrators of the cryptocurrency Ponzi – not for litigation, but just to preserve the information and attach my name to it. I was terrified and hadn't slept in days and it shows, but it served its purpose of keeping myself alive long enough to keep learning and telling this story.

I no longer have my original research files from the crypto rabbit hole. If you want to see them, you'll have to get my laptop back from the government. Ask them how they got it - it's a very fun story.

I hope you know how powerful you are. I wish you a hell of a lot more than luck.

Max Azzarello

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A patient at Medical University jumped to his death

Another sad incident. On the afternoon of April 19, a patient jumped from the fifth floor of Nanning Medical University Hospital in Guangxi and ended his life. What kind of desperate situation made him give up his life? There were many people watching at the scene, and it was heartbreaking to witness this tragic scene with their own eyes.

The reason for jumping from the building sparked heated debate. After the man jumped, hospital staff immediately rescued him. It can be learned that the man suffered a particularly serious craniocerebral injury and a fractured cervical spine. He eventually died after the rescue failed.

As for the reason why the man jumped from the building, many insiders spoke out, saying that the man jumped directly after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. It was also said that the man was diagnosed with cancer and had no medical insurance, so he could not afford expensive medical expenses. I was also afraid of harming my children, so I jumped off the building.

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CHILD WARNING Random girl on snap chat call hangs herself :marseyropewithme:

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A 27-year-old man died after being shot by his own gun. The case happened in Artur Nogueira, when Vinicius Douglas de Oliveira was handling the revolver and the accident happened. The Civil Police will investigate the case.

According to the Civil Police, on the 9th of this month, Vinicius was fiddling with his 38 caliber revolver when it accidentally went off. He was taken to the Artur Nogueira Municipal Emergency Room and then transferred to the HC (Hospital de Clínicas) at Unicamp (State University of Campinas).

After spending six days in hospital in serious condition, he couldn't resist and died on Monday night, 15.

Vinicius left behind a young daughter and was buried on Tuesday in Artur Nogueira.

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Lawyer Jumps From Building

Sarawak, Malaysia – A lawyer fell to his death from Level 22 of Wisma Sanyan, Sibu,

Sibu OCPD Asst Comm Stanley Jonathan Ringgit said police were investigating.

He said the lawyer, aged 43, had one child and was recently divorced.

A video clip of the incident, which occurred at 1.40pm, has been circulating on social media.

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Woman fighting with boyfriend opens car door and jumps out, killing herself, April 15th, 2024 - Taiwan

Taoyuan City, Taiwan

A 49-year-old woman surnamed Zeng from Taoyuan City was riding home with her 47-year-old boyfriend surnamed Song at around 5 a.m. on the 15th. The two had a quarrel over trivial matters in life. Zeng's daughter was angry for a moment and while the car was driving on Wenlin Road, she He suddenly opened the car door and jumped out. Because the man was driving very fast, the woman fell to the ground and rolled several times before stopping. Although the man surnamed Song immediately notified an ambulance to take his girlfriend to the hospital, she was still pronounced dead from her injuries. Song was sentenced to death by negligence. The crime was transferred to justice.

A nearby surveillance camera captured a black car speeding along Wenlin Road. The woman surnamed Zeng opened the door of the passenger seat and pressed her foot against the door. However, the car did not stop and instead stepped on the accelerator hard. Zeng was furious. Suddenly she jumped out of the car. Due to the speed of the car, the woman fell heavily to the ground and was suspected of hitting her head. She rolled several times before stopping on the side of the road. She lost consciousness on the spot.

The Taoyuan Police Station stated that they received a report at around 10 a.m. on the 15th that the woman surnamed Zeng died accidentally due to serious injuries after jumping from a car. They immediately contacted her boyfriend surnamed Song to report to the case. The man surnamed Song said that early that morning, the two of them left a friend's car together. He left home and was about to return to his residence in Longtan. On the way, he and his girlfriend had a heated argument over a trivial matter. While driving on Wenlin Road, his girlfriend suddenly opened the car door. He asked to close the door but his girlfriend refused. Finally, he jumped out of the car from the passenger seat in anger. .

The man surnamed Song saw his girlfriend jumping out of the car and immediately stopped the car. He quickly called an ambulance to take his girlfriend to the hospital. However, Zeng's injuries were too severe and she was pronounced dead at 8:45 after first aid. The police said that because Song Nan did not stop the car immediately when his girlfriend opened the car door, he was transferred to the Taoyuan District Prosecutor's Office for negligent death after interrogation. After investigation, the prosecutor investigated the case as a negligent death case and ordered Song Nan to post a bail of 10,000 yuan.

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A woman identified as FM (31) ended her life by hanging herself on Sunday (14/4/2024).

Wearing cream-colored trousers, FM hanged herself in the bathroom using a towel while broadcasting her actions live on Instagram.

As of now, it is not known for certain why FM chose to broadcast her suicide on social media.

Before hanging herself, FM allegedly had an argument with her partner the day before the incident.

Before being found dead from suicide, FM was reportedly experiencing violence from her partner. This was based on a bump on FM's head before the suicide.

The Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Kebayoran Lama Police AKP Suwarno denied these allegations. He stated that the victim's injury was not caused by her partner identified as YB.

"The bump was caused by the victim herself," said Suwarno on Wednesday (17/4/2024).

Suwarno even stated that YB did not commit any violence against the victim.

According to him, there is no concrete evidence to suggest that FM suffered violence from her partner based on the investigation results.

"We have investigated and examined the boyfriend, and he did not commit any violence against the victim," he said.

FM and her partner were allegedly arguing before the suicide incident occurred. This information was confirmed by Suwarno.

FM and her partner argued the day before the victim ended her life because they decided not to create content for social media.

"So they decided not to make content, the victim got angry, and then an argument ensued," added Suwarno.

The Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Kebayoran Lama Police AKP Suwarno stated that FM (31) had attempted suicide several times before.

Until Sunday (14/4/2024), she was found hanging in the bathroom.

https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2024/04/18/09470521/misteri-motif-selebgram-meli-joker-pilih-akhiri-hidup-dengan-live

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Celebrity Instagram Influencer Commits Suicide During Live Broadcast After Content Dispute

Jakarta - Police have revealed the cause of the suicide of influencer FM, also known as MJ, who took their own life while live streaming on the Instagram app.

AKP Suwarno, the head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Kebayoran Lama Police Station, stated that the suicide occurred after Fitri had an argument with their partner due to their unwillingness to create content together.

"The partner wanted to create content, but it didn't happen, and Fitri got angry. The content didn't materialize because something was missing, and Fitri got upset," he told reporters on Wednesday (April 17).

Suwarno mentioned that several times the victim was found in an angry state after failing to produce content for their social media.

After failing to create the content, the victim reportedly left their partner's house after inflicting self-harm.

"So, the girl actually came to her partner's house, and after that, she was told to leave because she kept getting angry. After that, she hit her own body and head, and then she went home," he explained.

"She harmed herself, went home, and her sister came to visit her. She threw her bag and went to sleep. Then she played with her phone, and the next morning, her sister found out that she had hanged herself," he added.

Suwarno stated that prior to the suicide, the victim had also consumed floor cleaner and injured themselves with a sharp weapon.

According to the family's statement, the victim had attempted suicide four times.

"So, first, she harmed her body, then she drank Wipol (it some kind of Bleach) and then committed suicide. She had reportedly attempted it nearly four times," he said.

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Man shoots himself at the same time Bend police open fire on him (multiple POVs) - March 20, 2024

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Bend, Oregon, United States

A Bend Police officer was justified in using deadly force to shoot an armed 18-year-old Bend man who at the same moment used his own gun to take his life during a March 20 encounter after a crash on the Bend Parkway, Deschutes County District Attorney Steve Gunnels concluded Friday.

Gunnels issued a 12-page report on the use of deadly force that laid out the sequence of events that night and concluded that while Bend Police Officer Wesley Murphy “acted lawfully in self-defense and defense of others” when he shot Gabriel Platz, the young man “died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

In the conclusion of his report, Gunnels wrote, “Officer Murphy's use of deadly force was reasonable to defend Officer (Cody) Lyter and to defend bystanders from Mr. Platz's firearm as it was being grabbed, manipulated and brought up into a shooting position (all despite multiple warnings to not grab the gun and to drop it) prior to Mr. Platz shooting himself,” Gunnels wrote in the conclusion of his report.

“Officer Murphy would have been legally justified in shooting Mr. Platz from the time it became clear Mr. Platz had grabbed the gun from the floorboard of the vehicle after having been told multiple times not to do so,” the DA said.

While Lyter also “would have been justified” in shooting Platz for the same reason, he instead “reached into the vehicle to close distance and to take the gun away or prevent it from being used,” Gunnels wrote. “That act required a great deal of courage, and it is extraordinarily fortunate that Officer Lyter was not struck by any of the three rounds fired during this incident.”

A Bend Parkway motorist reported the crash on the northbound parkway at 8:17 p.m. on March 20, involving a Lincoln Towncar that was estimated to have topped speeds of 90 mph, passing vehicles on the shoulder, Gunnels wrote. The witness said the driver smelled of alcohol and took his keys away.

Officers arrived on the scene and saw the driver still inside, also spotting a handgun on the car's floorboard. He ignored repeated direction not to reach for it and the officer-involved shooting ensued, with Platz sustaining a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound as he “was simultaneously shot by police,” an incident captured on both officers' body-warn cameras.

Gunnels told us Friday, "Mr. Platz went to kind of a great effort to grab the firearm off of the floorboard of his car. to bring it up to rack the slide on the handgun, which makes it a deadly weapon at that point, and brought it up to his head."

The DA's report says at various points that the shots were fired "virtually" or "nearly" simultaneously. Asked about that, Gunnels told NewsChannel 21 Friday: "I believe the officer's first shot was simultaneous with Mr. Platz's shot. I've reviewed the footage many, many times, and it is impossible for me to hear or see a time difference, even when watching in very slow motion with sound."

The report said that Lyter only drew his gun after the three shots were fired and as he moved away from the car.

In his conclusion, Gunnels stated, “Hindsight allows us to recognize that Mr. Platz acted with an intent to end his own life, but the officers who were charged with protecting the public at that moment did not have the benefit of hindsight.'

“They had a duty to act within seconds to end the threat that they reasonably perceived, and they did so,” the DA wrote. "They did not have the ability to wait and see what would happen.”

“These events represent a tragedy for those affected by them, including Gabriel Platz and his family,” he concluded. “The involved officers carry the emotional burden of these events, as well as do witnesses.”

https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2024/04/05/deschutes-da-gunnels-finds-bend-police-officer-was-justified-in-shooting-armed-driver-18-who-took-his-own-life/

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