DA Clears Deputy Who Killed Black Man After Suspected Jaywalking

From time to time you read where I say this exis­ten­tial sit­u­a­tion in America with polic­ing is not sole­ly the fault of the low-lev­el police. It is a con­spir­a­cy that includes the entire sys­tem polit­i­cal­ly, judi­cial­ly, and of course legislatively.
In this report, you will see cops engen­der­ing in total­i­ty the 2002 film Minority Report star­ring Tom cruise.
The film was based on a spe­cial­ized police depart­ment that appre­hend­ed peo­ple based on infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed them by three psy­chics called “precogs.(w)
In oth­er words, peo­ple were arrest­ed for crimes they did not com­mit, as well as on the idea of crimes they will com­mit in the future. Preventative law enforce­ment if you will.
That kind of law enforce­ment has been on the increase all across America in recent times. The fol­low­ing sto­ry will show you how cops fol­lowed an inno­cent home­less man; hop­ing to accost him on a minor vio­la­tion that is not even a class 3 mis­de­meanor but a minor vio­la­tion that would at best war­rant a ticket.
They then threw him to the ground, esca­lat­ed the inci­dent then mur­dered him ad the District Attorney allowed them to walk away scot-free.
The ques­tion is, even if he jay­walked who was hurt by his actions? How does a vic­tim­less ordi­nance vio­la­tion by a cit­i­zen become a jus­ti­fi­able street-side exe­cu­tion by police? (mb)
Sadly this is where America is today in order to save some­one from him­self police are legal­ly jus­ti­fied to mur­der cit­i­zens. Whether it is sit­ting on the side of a high­way-police shoot man 30 times killing him; or jay­walk­ing you are not safe from the exe­cu­tion­er’s bul­lets regard­less of your men­tal or eco­nom­ic state, you are disposable.

Orange County pros­e­cu­tors ruled that Deputy Eduardo Duran was jus­ti­fied in his shoot­ing of a home­less Black man. An Orange County sher­iff who fatal­ly shot an unarmed home­less Black man in 2020 will not be fac­ing crim­i­nal charges, accord­ing to the dis­trict attorney’s office. In dash­cam footage released to the pub­lic, deputies Eduardo Duran and Jonathan Israel are seen fol­low­ing 42-year-old Kurt Andras Reinhold in their police cruis­er before stop­ping him on sus­pi­cion of jay­walk­ing in a San Clemente neighborhood.
The duo then pro­ceed­ed to detain Reinhold, at one point wrestling him to the ground, before Reinhold, they said, grabbed Israel’s gun hol­ster, prompt­ing Duran to fire two shots at him.
The two offi­cers are a part of the department’s home­less out­reach liaison.

“It is clear from the evi­dence in this case that Deputy Duran did not com­mit a crime, and that he was jus­ti­fied when he shot Reinhold,” said Assistant Dist. Atty. Stephen McGreevy in a 20-page let­ter out­lin­ing their inves­ti­ga­tion. Prosecutors said that after review­ing the footage of the inci­dent and inter­view­ing the offi­cers and sev­er­al wit­ness­es, Duran was found to be in the right. In a 12-minute video com­pi­la­tion of the dash­cam, cell­phone, and sur­veil­lance footage, the two offi­cers were seen watch­ing Reinhold for sev­er­al min­utes before he was seen jay­walk­ing. “Watch this, he’s going to jay­walk,” one of the cops is heard say­ing as they pull up to Reinhold. The oth­er cop responds, “Don’t make case law.” The video doesn’t cap­ture the moment the cops exit their vehi­cle, but one is heard say­ing, “Are you going to stop or are we going to have to make you stop?”

CLEARLY ON A POWER TRIP

“For what,” Reinhold responds. After the cops told Reinhold that he was jay­walk­ing, he respond­ed by say­ing that their claims are “ridicu­lous” because he was just walk­ing and tells them to stop touch­ing him. The offi­cers are then seen try­ing to direct a vis­i­bly upset Reinhold back to the side­walk, before they tack­le him to the ground. One of the cops is heard yelling “he’s got my gun,” which seem­ing­ly cor­rob­o­rates a pre­vi­ous­ly released still pho­to of Reinhold’s hand near the gun. However, it is unclear if he took the weapon out of its hol­ster. “These offi­cers are sup­pos­ed­ly trained to deal with the home­less,” said John Taylor, an attor­ney rep­re­sent­ing Reinhold’s wid­ow, Latoya Reinhold. “They need­ed to deesca­late the sit­u­a­tion, rather than esca­late it.” Reinhold’s fam­i­ly, includ­ing his 7‑year-old son and 8‑year-old daugh­ter, filed a claim for wrong­ful death in December 2020. “Jaywalking should not get you killed in Orange County. Being home­less should not get you killed in Orange County,” said Taylor, adding that Reinhold suf­fered from men­tal health issues in the past. Attorneys for the fam­i­ly said that they were dis­ap­point­ed but not sur­prised by the prosecutor’s deci­sion on Friday. Their law­suit against the depart­ment is still ongoing.