Justified Or Wrong?: Salinas California Police Officers Fatally Shoot Man In Cold Blood Claiming He Had Lunged At Them With Garden Shears

Investigators said a woman called 911 after seeing a man in her backyard holding scissors. She said the man tried to break into her house, threatened to kill her and attacked her dog. An official statement from the Salinas Police Department also noted that the man exposed his genitals in a sexually explicit manner and made sexually suggestive comments to the woman. When police arrived, they found the man in the street armed with garden shears. After repeatedly ignoring officers' instructions to put the shears down, an officer attempted to fire a stun gun at the man, but the gun misfired. The department's statement noted that, "As the suspect continued to ignore the orders of the officers, the suspect retrieved the gardening shears from his backpack. "In an aggressive fashion, the suspect swung the gardening shears at the officers who were standing in close proximity and in danger of being stabbed or slashed. In response to this threat, two officers fired their weapons at the suspect."

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