Berkeley Police publishes video of officer-affected shootings

Shooting

The officer, who shot Ricardo Ruiz, had “accidentally deactivated” his camera worn by the body a day, “said BPD. All other officers accepted, but nobody captured the shootout itself.

BPD published the following explanation on Tuesday about a current Non -fatal police delights in Berkeley. It appears completely with minor changes below. The scanner continues to follow history.

On April 13, the Berkeley police authority reacted to a 911 call around 6:50 a.m. in which he had reported domestic disorders in the Block of McGee Avenue 1900.

The caller reported to hear a woman and believed that she was attacked. Officers arrived on site and tried to contact the inmates of the apartment.

After having not received an answer for a few minutes and got the security of the woman, they began to force admission.

The man, which was later identified at 33-year-old Ricardo Ruiz, threatened to shoot officers and stated that they were seeing them through full-time cameras.

The officers deactivated two cameras out of security, whereupon Ruiz put a shotgun and threatened to use fatal violence against officers.

About 25 minutes after the officers knocked on the door of the suspect for the first time, Ruiz opened the steel protection door and showed what the officials called a black pistol with a tactical light towards the officer. Ruiz then retired back into the apartment.

At around 7:42 a.m. Ruiz opened the door, showed a firearm on the officers again and was shot by an officer.

After Ruiz had been shot, he retired to his apartment and later collapsed directly in front of the now open steel safety door.

A woman left the apartment and knelt next to Ruiz. The officials moved in and brought the woman to safety.

Two trained Swat doctors immediately started to provide Medical help until the paramedics of the fire brigade arrived at Berkeley and took Ruiz to the hospital.

A shotgun loaded with snails and an air rifle loaded with metal pellets was recovered at the scene.

The officer, who hit his firearm and hit Ruiz, was equipped with a camera (BWC) worn by the body. However, he had accidentally deactivated in the critical incident.

Our department contacted Axon, the manufacturer of the camera, to restore additional film material. However, it was found that no further data was available.

All other officers on site had active cameras carried with body during the shootout. Neither these cameras nor fixed cameras in the area thrown a look at Ruiz when he left his apartment and focused on officers.

This incident is examined by the murder department of the police and the interior matters of the Berkeley Police Department.

Via Standard Protocol, the police authority of Berkeley informed and consulted the offices of the district prosecutor of Alameda and the Attorney General about this incident.

The suspect was later released from the hospital and booked to the district prison.

On April 18, the public prosecutor's office of the Alameda district submitted several crimes against the suspect: PC 245 (C), attack on a peace representative; PC 417 (C), which in the presence of an officer has a firearm (12 counts); PC 29805 (A), illegal weapons activity and PC 29825 (a) illegal weapon activity; Together with numerous crime improvements.

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