California cops shoot and kill fellow officer suspected of sexual misconduct while tr

• Lan wrote on 2012-02-01 06:01

  SANTA MARIA, Calif. — A police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers Saturday as they tried to arrest him on California’s central coast, authorities said.
  
  The officer was manning a DUI checkpoint when the shooting occurred shortly after 1 a.m. He was declared dead after emergency surgery at Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria police Chief Danny Macagni said in a statement.
  
  The officer, a four-year Santa Maria department veteran, had just learned of the internal investigation of an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and it became necessary to arrest him immediately, Macagni said.
  
  “We had no choice,” Macagni said in video of an afternoon news conference posted by KCOY-TV. He said investigators had evidence “that demanded that we go out and take this officer off the street immediately.”
  
  Supervising officers were sent to make a felony arrest, but he struggled with them when they arrived, first putting up a physical fight, then firing his gun but hitting no one, Macagni said.
  
  “He chose to resist, he drew his weapon, a fight ensued, he fired his weapon,” the chief said.
  
  Several officers came to help the police making the arrest, and one of them shot the suspected officer in the chest once, Macagni said.
  
  Detectives had begun investigating the alleged relationship on Thursday night, and minutes before the shooting had confirmed that an “inappropriate” and “very explicit” relationship had been going on, Macagni said.
  
  He said he could not give details because of the sensitivity of the investigation, but “there was some witness intimidation involved” and the arrest couldn’t wait for a more proper time or place.
  
  “The information that we had in hand demanded that we not let him leave that scene, get in a car, drive somewhere, it would put the public at risk,” Macagni said at the news conference. “We just did not know what was going to happen, we did not expect him to react the way that he did.”
  
  Macagni said police had expressed condolences to the officer’s family.
  
  The officer who fired the fatal shot, an eight-year department veteran, has been placed on administrative leave, and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department was investigating the shooting, Macagni said.
  
  The name of the officer killed has not been released because some family members were still being notified, and the name of the officer who fired the shot was withheld while the incident was under investigation, police said.
  
  Santa Maria is a city of some 100,000 people about 60 miles northwest of Santa Barbara and 160 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
  
  
  
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• Cynic wrote on 2012-02-01 06:28
  As long as they were both consenting, it's nobodies damn business what type of relationship he was having with a 17-year old girl.
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-02-01 06:34
  Lol. This is why you shouldn't sleep with minors.
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-01 06:37

  Quote from Cynic;757959:

  As long as they were both consenting, it's nobodies damn business what type of relationship he was having with a 17-year old girl.

  
  
  The age of consent in California is 18. If the investigation was accurate, then he would have been tried for statutory rape.
• Aliyah wrote on 2012-02-01 06:37

  Quote from Cynic;757959:

  As long as they were both consenting, it's nobodies damn business what type of relationship he was having with a 17-year old girl.

  
  
  Age of consent in Cali is 18 not 17
  
  Edit: ninja'd :(
• Kollin wrote on 2012-02-01 06:51
  Age of consent in Georgia is 16. It used to be 14, not sure how long ago.
• Skye wrote on 2012-02-01 06:56
  Age of consent is age of consent, yo.
  But I guess it's a good thing the guy isn't a cop anymore if he out up such a fight after being found to be breaking the law...except, he is dead, so...yeah, I dunno how to make that sound less horrible. >_>
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-01 09:23

  Quote from Kollin;757989:

  Age of consent in Georgia is 16. It used to be 14, not sure how long ago.

  
  
  ****ing southerners :l
  
  
  Oh and ya Cynic this was legally rape. Not going to bypass any laws with "both parties were consensual about their relationship"
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-02-01 09:40
  The age of consent is 16 in most places. But that really doesn't matter in this case. Personally, I really don't care if he wanted to do the girl, or if the other cops wanted to arrest him for it, etc.
  The bigger problem here is that he fired his gun at his fellow officers who were trying to arrest him. I mean, he's a cop.. he should know better. O_o That just seems odd to me. Conspiracy theories, anyone?!
• Ark wrote on 2012-02-01 09:43
  Minus the fact that he slept with someone under that states age of consent. He was pretty stupid to pull out his gun and resist arrest. Now hes paying the price for it.
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-01 10:00

  Quote from Yoorah;758292:

  The age of consent is 16 in most places. But that really doesn't matter in this case. Personally, I really don't care if he wanted to do the girl, or if the other cops wanted to arrest him for it, etc.
  The bigger problem here is that he fired his gun at his fellow officers who were trying to arrest him. I mean, he's a cop.. he should know better. O_o That just seems odd to me. Conspiracy theories, anyone?!

  
  Spend life in jail with a ruined reputation or go down in a blaze?
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-02-01 10:13
  The young woman must be shattered. Good job, society.
• paladin wrote on 2012-02-01 10:16

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;758376:

  The young woman must be shattered. Good job, society.

  
  
  History repeats itself alot
  Look at the jews or the people the ussr straved to death or the japanes
  Society sucks!
• Kollin wrote on 2012-02-02 03:43

  Quote from Hiccup;758260:

  ****ing southerners :l
  
  
  Oh and ya Cynic this was legally rape. Not going to bypass any laws with "both parties were consensual about their relationship"

  
  
  16 years of age sounds fine to me. 14 is just too young, barely even past being a child.
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-02 04:09
  17/18 is fine by me, but I'm already older now. I feel like most 15/16 year olds still don't know what they really want out of a relationship, so sex at that age would be irresponsible.
  
  Then again, I'm one of those prudish sorts that people like to vilify in these discussions. :P