Santa in, New Mexico – A former police officer was convicted on Wednesday Voluntary murder At the deadly shooting of a black man during the 2022 confrontation at the New Mexico fuel station.
The Las Cruces Paradise Police ruling in the trial of the jury is the latest result in the cases in which prosecutors were associated with the systematic brutality against blacks by law enforcement members, about five years after May 2020 killing George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Lundord, white, acknowledged that he was not guilty. His lawyer, Jose Coronado, said he would ask the judge to review his legal struggle.
“While I respect the ruling of the jury, I am very disappointed. He said in an e -mail to Associated Press:” I do not think the state has faced its burden. “
Prosecutors said that he shot Bresley Eas at a group of point in a quarrel after the police responded to the 911 call from a fuel station, which stated that Iz stole beer. Iz claims that he put his hand on the second officer’s gun before shooting him.
Prosecutor Raul Toriz said that the use of deadly force was not reasonable, noting that Lanceford had immediately drew the service weapon and shot Eas at the back of the head.
“Today’s ruling reaffirms a basic principle: no one is above the law – not even those who swore to his support. The actions of the officer Lundord were not just a tragic ending in the ruling; Toriz said in a statement after the announcement of the ruling.
The charge of voluntary murder, while strengthening firearms, has a potential sentence of nine years in prison. Evidence in the trial included a body camera video of the police about the confrontation, as the police withdrew from a vehicle and followed that conflict.
Most of the deadly shootings by officers in the service are designed to be legally justified in light of a precedent resulting from the provisions of the United States in the United States in the era of the eighties.
“It is very difficult for the public prosecutor to obtain a condemnation in the trial of the jury in one of these cases, because the jury are very hesitant in guessing the second division decisions, and life or death is often a police in service an officer in a street meeting that is likely to be violent.” That anything happens, but it is only in the most terrible cases. “
The records collected by Stinson, his colleagues and students through the Police Safety Research Group show that 205 non -federal law officers have been arrested on criminal charges of murder or unintelient killing over the past twenty years, which has led.
“If you get a condemnation, it is often for the least crime,” Steinson said.
He said that more than 900 gunfire by local law enforcement officers and local law enforcement employees usually occur every year in the United States.
In following a criminal charge against Lanceford, Toriz described the killing of Ezz as a tragedy and “another example of poor police tactics, which led to an unjustified use of force to subject an individual who resists arrest on charges of committing a simple crime.”
