Officer shot, killed by fellow police in Calif.

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — A police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers Saturday as they tried to arrest him on California's central coast, authorities said.

The officer was manning a DUI checkpoint when the shooting occurred shortly after 1 a.m. He was declared dead after emergency surgery at Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria police Chief Danny Macagni said in a statement.
The officer, a four-year Santa Maria department veteran, had just learned of the internal investigation of an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and it became necessary to arrest him immediately, Macagni said.
"We had no choice," Macagni said in video of an afternoon news conference posted by KCOY-TV. He said investigators had evidence "that demanded that we go out and take this officer off the street immediately."
Supervising officers were sent to make a felony arrest, but he struggled with them when they arrived, first putting up a physical fight, then firing his gun but hitting no one, Macagni said.
"He chose to resist, he drew his weapon, a fight ensued, he fired his weapon," the chief said.
Several officers came to help the police making the arrest, and one of them shot the suspected officer in the chest once, Macagni said.
Detectives had begun investigating the alleged relationship on Thursday night, and minutes before the shooting had confirmed that an "inappropriate" and "very explicit" relationship had been going on, Macagni said.
He said he could not give details because of the sensitivity of the investigation, but "there was some witness intimidation involved" and the arrest couldn't wait for a more proper time or place.
"The information that we had in hand demanded that we not let him leave that scene, get in a car, drive somewhere, it would put the public at risk," Macagni said at the news conference. "We just did not know what was going to happen, we did not expect him to react the way that he did."
Macagni said police had expressed condolences to the officer's family.
The officer who fired the fatal shot, an eight-year department veteran, has been placed on administrative leave, and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department was investigating the shooting, Macagni said.
The name of the officer killed has not been released because some family members were still being notified, and the name of the officer who fired the shot was withheld while the incident was under investigation, police said.
Santa Maria is a city of some 100,000 people about 60 miles northwest of Santa Barbara and 160 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
 
see, police are cannibals, down with the police state, why couldn't they just taze him rawr!!
 
California's one of the few states where age of consent is 18. I guess there may be an additional law about abusing authority positions. I know teachers sometimes get clipped like that.
 
Many of the laws here are outrageously backwards. This is a shame, there is rampant corruption in Cali, and ridiculous laws. The size of government is way to big and people wonder why the state is broke?
 
wonder if there is more to this story

. . . suddenly needed to arrest him , after sudenly becoming aware of a very " explicit relationship "

dunno , but something sure seems off from reading that article
 
Without more information I'm comfortable saying this is 100% the fault of the arresting officers.
Military tactics are very seldom necessary to arrest anyone......even a POS cop.
Remember, these idiots are waging war on Americans :(
 
Without more information I'm comfortable saying this is 100% the fault of the arresting officers.
Military tactics are very seldom necessary to arrest anyone......even a POS cop.
Remember, these idiots are waging war on Americans :(

It's hard to say without more info. Perhaps he didn't have a dog they could shoot.
 
you can't have a wanted person on duty as a police officer, it could be huge liability.


1) One-Adam-12 report to base.

2) Send the goon squad out to make an arrest in public.


I see more liability when option #2 is used.....
There are very few reasons for the use of swat or any type of aggression just to make an arrest.
The administration must be held accountable.
 
you can't have a wanted person on duty as a police officer, it could be huge liability.

Yeah, but I thought their MO was simply to declare them to be justified.

I agree, it was the wrong person's 17 year old daughter.
Either that, or he was threatening to expose something and the whole 17 year old sex thing is made up.
 
wonder if there is more to this story

. . . suddenly needed to arrest him , after sudenly becoming aware of a very " explicit relationship "

dunno , but something sure seems off from reading that article
They're kind of vague about it, but they mentioned witness intimidation. It could be that he had been threatening people not to talk, in which case you can't wait until his shift is over and he goes to settle business with whoever he was threatening, while still in uniform. Would look very very bad.
 
They're kind of vague about it, but they mentioned witness intimidation. It could be that he had been threatening people not to talk, in which case you can't wait until his shift is over and he goes to settle business with whoever he was threatening, while still in uniform. Would look very very bad.

i agree

but keep wondering along the lines of fisharmor's either that or . . . scenario
 
you can't have a wanted person on duty as a police officer, it could be huge liability.
This.
Everyone else is reading too much into it. When a person who has a warrant out for their arrest, they go to their house and search for them because that is the probable place they will be, but they are not always there. The cop was on duty and they knew he where he was at the time, simple logic was to arrest him as soon as possible, but the retard pulled a gun. I didn't watch the situation go down, so I can't comment on whether or not shooting him, especially in the chest, was the right choice, or the only one.
 
Family members name Calif. officer killed by fellow police, ask why shot on duty in streets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...entral-coast/2012/01/28/gIQA3zTiYQ_story.html

Family members on Sunday identified an officer killed by fellow police on California’s central coast, and questioned why the attempted arrest that led to his death had to take place while he was on duty in the streets.

The officer killed was 29-year-old Albert Covarrubias Jr., a four-year veteran of the Santa Maria Police Department, his father and sister told KCOY-TV.
 
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