Alexander Herrera's Family Demands Answers from Police
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On Monday Peter Herrera told 7NEWS that he did not expect his brother Alexander to survive and a few hours later, he did pass away at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He had been on life support since Sunday night after a police man shot the construction worker once to the back of the head. Today the police remain tightlipped about the shooting but told 7NEWS that the police man who pulled the trigger has been interdicted pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Other reports to us suggest he is not presently on interdiction.
The police would not reveal the name of their fellow officer but he has been identified to 7NEWS as Dixon Polonio, attached to the Patrol Branch. And while he is under investigation, the Police Department is under pressure to produce a credible response after a dubious and offensive release sent out yesterday. A police release issued yesterday reported that at 11:20 on Sunday night, Herrera was seen drunk, and carrying a handgun near the Swing Bridge. The official story is that one of the officers fired a shot and Herrera then jumped into the water. He was later detained and police say that’s when they noticed the injury to his head - the injury of course was the gunshot wound the officers had inflicted.
Like we said, a story that does raise many questions about competence and truthfulness, and the police topped it off by saying that Herrera would be charged after being released from the hospital. That’s what they said about a man with a bullet from a police weapon lodged in his brain. And more disturbing are accounts by witnesses which suggest that the shooting was unjustified.
Today as the Herrera family gets ready to lay their loved one to rest they maintain that they will not rest until whoever is responsible is brought to justice. According to the family what troubles them is that their brother was shot in the back while he was in the water not on land. They are also disturbed at the report that he was taken to the police station, not the hospital. They further maintain that their brother from all accounts was not armed with any weapon but the only thing he had in his hands at the time was marijuana and that is why he probably ran when he saw the police.
The police would not reveal the name of their fellow officer but he has been identified to 7NEWS as Dixon Polonio, attached to the Patrol Branch. And while he is under investigation, the Police Department is under pressure to produce a credible response after a dubious and offensive release sent out yesterday. A police release issued yesterday reported that at 11:20 on Sunday night, Herrera was seen drunk, and carrying a handgun near the Swing Bridge. The official story is that one of the officers fired a shot and Herrera then jumped into the water. He was later detained and police say that’s when they noticed the injury to his head - the injury of course was the gunshot wound the officers had inflicted.
Like we said, a story that does raise many questions about competence and truthfulness, and the police topped it off by saying that Herrera would be charged after being released from the hospital. That’s what they said about a man with a bullet from a police weapon lodged in his brain. And more disturbing are accounts by witnesses which suggest that the shooting was unjustified.
Today as the Herrera family gets ready to lay their loved one to rest they maintain that they will not rest until whoever is responsible is brought to justice. According to the family what troubles them is that their brother was shot in the back while he was in the water not on land. They are also disturbed at the report that he was taken to the police station, not the hospital. They further maintain that their brother from all accounts was not armed with any weapon but the only thing he had in his hands at the time was marijuana and that is why he probably ran when he saw the police.
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regjoeschmo
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How can someone be a threat to you if they arent even facing you?? Put police officers in a regular fitness program and they wont have to shoot at people that are running.
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