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There's a link to the video at the L.A. Times

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 9:28pm.
From the Los Angeles Times By Matt Lait and Lance Pugmire
Times Staff Writers
February 2, 2006

A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who shot a 21-year-old Air Force security officer in an incident captured by a video camera appears to have violated accepted police tactics and may have committed a criminal offense, experts in the use of force by police said Wednesday.

The experts cautioned that the low quality of the digital recording may obscure some important evidence. But what is visible — the image of the deputy firing multiple rounds at 21-year-old Elio Carrion as he appeared to follow the deputy's order to get off the ground — was shocking, they said.

"It's a criminal act," said Roger Clark, a former Los Angeles County sheriff's lieutenant who routinely testifies in court as an expert in police tactics. Clark has worked both for police officers and for citizens who have sued the police. "He shot an unarmed man who was complying with his orders," Clark said.

David Klinger, a use-of-force expert who teaches at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and wrote a book titled "Into The Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force," said the recording was "the screwiest thing I've ever seen. It makes no sense."

"What I saw was totally incongruous with standard police doctrine," said Klinger, a professor of criminology and onetime LAPD officer.

San Bernardino County sheriff's officials have refused to release the name of the deputy, although state law makes the identity of law enforcement officers involved in shootings a matter of public record.
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Submitted by Temple3 on February 2, 2006 - 11:23pm.

I don't want to rush to judgment, but this sounds like Standard Operating Procedure. Let me guess, Elio Carrion is not white. Let me guess again. The shooter is white. Let me guess, one more time. The department is withholding judgment until a white official investigation is convened that will exonerate the white shooter. I'm just guessing. I'm sure there are plenty of white folks who are plenty pissed off about this - but this sounds like an instance where a little premeditated action would not be out of bounds. Let's see what works.
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Submitted by Temple3 on February 2, 2006 - 11:30pm.

Maybe it's an "urban legend," but I recall hearing that murders of this type were a right of passage for white cops. It's not like they're real soldiers - after all, they're city/county cops. I think the point of it was to demonstrate the stones to be willing to kill - and trust that the "system" would handle the trial. Anyway, since this shit always seems to happen in Cobb's neck of the woods, I'm sure he has something quasi-relevant to say about this pattern. After completing such a task, these officers were to be on a semi-invisible fast track to leadership positions. I am not aware of an empirical analysis of shooters and leaders in LA County and the surrounding areas, but this may be a point for further investigation.
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Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 10:43am.
Interestingly enough, I just finished My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement by Dr. Price Cobbs.
I became aware at an early age that, because of this kind of connection, my father had a broader view of what was happenning beyonf L.A., whether it was a cultural issue ...He always gave us a personal view of his involvement in and understanding of political issues that was borne out by our own personal experience.

He would explain to us, for instance, that one of the reasons the Los Angeles Police Department treated black people so harshly was that many of the white officers had been recruited from the South. I never knew this to be true or untrue, never saw any documentation to corroborate it. But many years later my wife and I were travelling by car in Alabama. We stopped in Auburn, Alabama to get gas, and the man pumping the gas was elderly ans white. When I explained we were from California, a big smile broke out on his face and he said, "California? Sure, I know California. I used to be a cop in L.A.!"
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Submitted by ptcruiser on February 3, 2006 - 10:59am.
In the videotape you can hear Elio Carrion, the man who was shot, saying to the officer "I'm on your side."  This may seem like a harsh judgment but I wonder if Carrion still thinks that he and the police officer who shot him are on the same side.  What side, by the way, does Carrion consider himself to be on? The side that would participate in the invasion and military subjugation of a country that posed no credible threat to the people of the United States? Or does Carrion consider himself to be on the side of police authorities who believe they have a right to shoot unarmed civilians? What side is Carrion really on? I think he is on the side of the people that  shot him.
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Submitted by Bounce (not verified) on February 5, 2006 - 12:24am.
If I'm correct the cop is black in this incident.
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