Law enforcement officials claim the their deputies made several unsuccessful attempts to subdue the man with tasers and riot shields.
Cell phone video taken by a nearby neighbor and obtained by a local news station appears to show the two Texas deputies gunned down the man who held his hands up, a contradiction of the police narrative.
Police said Flores appeared to have a knife when they arrived, and attempted to “resist and fight back,” according to Bexar County Sheriff’s Office PIO James Keith.
Deputies Greg Vasquez and Robert Sanchez claimed they attempted to use non-lethal force to stop Flores, including tasers and riot shields, according to Think Progress, but their efforts proved fruitless, they said, and they had to open fire on the man, killing him.
However, cell phone video filmed by a neighbor and obtained by ABC affiliate KSAT News shows a shirtless Flores putting his hands up multiple times and little if any effort by law enforcement to employ non-lethal force.
Instead, the alarming footage appears to feature one, if not both officers opening fire on Flores as his hands are raised in the air.
“Certainly what’s in the video is a cause for concern,” Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau commented on the footage Friday, “but it’s important to let the investigation go through its course so that we can assure a thorough and complete review of all that occurred.”
Yesterday, the department posted a message to Facebook denouncing KSAT 12 News for making the footage publicly available, labeling the news group’s act “unethical and sad” and “sensational.”
I’d last a long time. called the cops one time in my life never will again, I’m not a helpless sheep, I have multiple plans and means to defend me and mine because I know from past experience how useless police are. They take 30 minutes to respond to an $#%&!@*ault with a knife. (First hand account of that). So go ahead, call the government enforcers so they can pick up your dead body and write a report, cuz that’s all they’re good for. That and killing dogs and children.
Cops don’t protect or serve us, remember that. They protect the rich and their political cohorts.
Quit posting stuff to make cops look bad, getting very annoyed
Why post this and increase the tension. Always just the shot, never the whole picture. You just lost a follower. We need to be supporting America and our Police. Not stirring the pot.
Good ridence, ask questions later.
Nathan Brown your accusations of ignorance are based on nothing. Never has a police officer helped me. If youre scared of a society without police, go live in $#%&!@* germany
The facts are evident Soros is a Democrat. Why do you lie?