© Reuters / Mike Stone
Police in Laredo, Texas opened fire on a schizophrenic man armed with a pellet gun this week,
killing him after unleashing upwards of 80 shots, according to the victim's family.
Six officers from the Laredo Police Department have been reassigned to administrative duties while officials investigate the incident, which occurred early Saturday morning outside of a truck stop in the southern part of the Lone Star State.
According to authorities, police spent around five minutes attempting to negotiate with 30-year-old Jose Walter Garza before the man made an "
offensive gesture," then allegedly aimed the would-be weapon -
a pellet gun made to resemble a semiautomatic handgun, according to the
Laredo Morning Times - at the cops who then opened fire.
"He put his finger in the trigger guard and pointed it at the officers," Joe E. Baeza, an investigator and police spokesperson, told the paper.
Law enforcement has since opened a probe in order to get to the bottom of the incident, but Andrea Martinez, Garza's cousin,
told the New York Daily News that police shot no fewer than 80 times. Surveillance footage from a camera at the truck stop has since been published online, but the angle it was filmed from shows only the fatal shots, and not how Garza acted beforehand.
Comment: A fine example of the social hysteria created by psychopaths - the result of living in a pathocracy:
Kids are now being brainwashed into accepting the police state
The American Delusion: Distracted, diverted and insulated from the grim reality of the police state