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BPD publish a video of officers from Ricardo Ruiz by officer

The video published by the BERKELEY police shows the almost one-hour break before an officer shot 33-year-old Ricardo Ruiz, who had a shotgun and a powerful air rifle and was repeatedly threatening to shoot civil servants. Credit: Berkeley Police Department

New videos and information published by the Berkeley police draw a clearer picture of the patient situation on April 13, which ended in an official who shot a man who initially refused to open the door of his apartment during an examination of domestic violence.

The police said that the man, Ricardo Ruiz (33), aimed at a gun and threatened to shoot police officers, and the video begins to repeat the police.

Take a look at the edited video of BPD from The Pattoff. The video is graphic.

The moment when a Berkeley police officer Ruiz had not published after the almost one-hour patting situation. The police said that a camera had the suspect directly when an official was shot was “accidentally deactivated”.

“Our department, the manufacturer of the camera, contacted Axon to restore additional film materials, but it was found that no further data was available,” said the Berkeley Police Department in an unex also signed explanation. “All other officers on site had active cameras carried out with body during the shootout. Neither these cameras nor fixed cameras in the area have thrown Ruiz into a view of Ruiz when he left his apartment and aimed a firearm on officers.”

The Berkeley police authority had previously published some details on the patient situation, but the video shows some of the physical movements of the civil servants and shows Ruiz, who runs out of his apartment with a handgun (the film material from a alley is not entirely clear).

The video also captures the sound of someone who creates a shotgun, which the police later recovered with snails and air rifles loaded shotgun with metal pellets, both to the shooting in Ruiz '.

The police officers of Berkeley thrown back a shotgun and air rifle after a patient situation with 33-year-old Ricardo Ruiz on April 13, 2025. Credit: Berkeley Police Department

Together with the video, the police officially and for the first time that Ruiz had actually shot the police and had used a garbage container as a cover with a pellet from the air rifle.

Ruiz made local headlines in March because he had pulled out and activated an electropistol in a protest in front of Tesla's exhibition space in the Fourth Street.

The protest was a demonstration against Elon Musk, the car manufacturer's CEO, the richest man in the world and President Donald Trump's bureaucratic Beilmann. Ruiz, a Trump pendant, pulled a monster 36m rechargeable to ward off demonstrators who had confronted him when he drove his electric bike back and forth and played loud music. Ruiz had previously packed a rally on behalf of courted Berkeleyans against pepper, who sprayed a man who tried to take Ruiz's spokesman.

Ricardo Ruiz will be created on November 8, 2024 during a November rally from Trump's November rally organized by Berkeley from his bike to protest against Trump's re-election. He circulated the students with his bike and blew the music of Trump support from a spokesman for about half an hour, but finally went after talking to police officers. Credit: Ximena Natera

Ruiz, a productive YouTube user, published an hour-long video a few days before the end, in which it was claimed that a cabal of the local organization and the Berkeley-Einstlich civil servants had conspired to support protests against Musk and Trump.

After his release from the hospital on April 22, Ruiz was in custody in the Santa Rita prison in Dublin.

The district prosecutor's office of Alameda accused Ruiz on April 18 for 17 crimes – attack on a police officer, 12 cases in which he had issued a firearm in the presence of an officer and four of the illegal weapons activities. He still has to enter a plea.

Ruiz faces a separate offense that has issued a fatal weapon for the narcotic weapon case. He was arrested in the pepper spray incident, but was never charged.

Ruiz's lawyer, Jyoti Rekhi, did not immediately answer a request for a comment.

Standoff lasted almost an hour

The patient situation began around 6:50 a.m. with a 911 caller that he told the dispatchers that he could hear what sounded like a man who beat his girlfriend in a residential building at the university and McGee Avenue. The woman, he said dispatcher, said she couldn't breathe.

The published video police are edited, divided and compiled from different perspectives up to a little more than 10 minutes and has explanatory films between video clips. Berkeleyside has requested an unprocessed body camera film material from the patient situation. This request is still outstanding.

The police from Berkeley arrested Ricardo Ruiz on March 22, shortly after activating his electropistol during an anti-trump protest in front of the Tesla dealer in the Fourth Street. Credit: Frances spelled game

In the video, the officials take on positions around Ruiz 'apartment door, the walls to the side and over an alley with a staircase between the door and the opposite wall.

Officers knock on Ruiz 'door and indicate who they are, but do not receive an answer. When an official tries to open a metal security goal over the door from which the police were about seven minutes later, one voice says from the apartment, probably Ruiz,: “Hey, you collapse into my door, I will shoot.”

The officials order to get the person outside and show their hands and repeat that they are police officers.

“We have heard that someone was in danger that we have an urgent fact, we will enter their place if they do not give us permission to enter,” says an officer Ruiz, who repeatedly repeats that cameras are pointing to the officials and then says: “I will shoot when they come into my place.”

Ruiz insisted that there was no woman in his apartment, the police said. “This is a blow to a blow and you know that,” he can hear in the video. Ruiz threatens several times to shoot against the officers or to shoot or shoot “deadly violence” or to turn that had withdrawn into the mouth of the alley.

The officials set themselves to deactivate the cameras outside the apartment. “Subsequently, Ruiz convicted and threatened a shotgun,” says a BPD declaration that accompanied the video.

Around 7:25 a.m. Ruiz came outside in the video after a film and held a “black pistol with a tactical light”. A body camera caught a video from Ruiz through a gate that focused on the weapon on the police and asked them to go and shoot it.

A negotiator speaks to Ruiz. “My goal is that everyone is sure to leave here,” says the officer. “I want to make sure that you are safe and that all my people are safe.”

“Then get yourself here,” replies Ruiz.

“You know that we cannot do that at the moment,” says the officer. “We have to make sure that everything is safe.”

Ruiz says he will “shoot you”.

The police said Ruiz came back outside around 7:42 a.m. and showed “a firearm again with the officials”, and an officer shot Ruiz. Five shots can be heard in the video, but shooting and what was preceded by it are not visually recorded.

Police officers then stack back into the alley and surround a collapsed ruiz. The video shows a shotgun directly in the apartment door and the blood that was pooled next to Ruiz 'head on the floor in the alley. The police say a woman came out of the apartment and knelt next to him.

“Go out of our house. Why are you in our house? Get out of me,” the woman screams in the video when the officials start to give Ruiz first aid. “Why do you kidnap me?”

The Medicers of Berkeley Fire Department took over medical care and brought Ruiz to Highland Hospital for treatment.

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