Nov 15 2007
Mesa police kill man with knife
Two Mesa police officers shot and killed a suspect Wednesday evening around 9pm.
They were answering a domestic violence call at the Spanish Arcos Apartments in the 200 block of West 10th. A man answered the door to the apartment with a knife and was shot after refusing to drop it.
Mesa police spokesman Detective Steve Berry said police were called to the Spanish Arcos Apartments in the 200 block of West 10th Avenue about 8:40 p.m. because of a reported fight between a man and a woman.
The woman, who had a bloody nose, met officers and directed them to the man’s apartment
When the officers knocked on the man’s door, Berry said, he opened it holding a knife and ignored several orders that he drop the knife.
Berry said it was unclear if the man lunged or moved towards the officers, but both fired at him.
He was pulled outside to a sidewalk for medical attention, but died at the scene.
The Mesa police didn’t kill a person by using a knife.
At least the Mesa patrol cops are doing something. Take a look at these videos. Proof that the Mesa Aviation department needs to fire a couple bad police officers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0-o6zUoe0&feature=related
No, the videos are not professional but I wrote some time stamp information for other people. Also read the background story–fascinating but sad. They are , I guess, doing this because of a collision with Mr. DeGroote over his plate cover business. Also, Mr. DeGroote was accused of shining a flashlight on a helicopter. He had to go to court on this but it turns out the judge has a son that lives in DeGroote’s neighborhood. The judge never recused himself from DeGrootes criminal case and he definetly should have. His son had an order of protection on him because he accused the Degrootes of trying to steal a dog. It was a kids thing not an adult thing but the father (the judges son) got out of hand forcing the protection order.
Man, there is so much more. but just the videos for now. There are lots of videos and DeGroote has more.
Fred Freid