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Oxnard, CA -- Officers were responding to a DUI investigation on the side of the road when a man, Adam Barcenas, 60, who was not involved in the incident began shouting and wielding a 5-foot steel bar in a threatening manner was ordered to stop but continued to come toward three police officers on scene. Barcenas refused to stop and continued to come toward the officers and was shot three times.
The Oxnard Police Department has released bodycam video footage on March 17 of the incident. It should only be viewed [below] at your discretion as it is disturbing as it shows Barcenas confronting officers Shayn Schwartz, Alexus Santos and Bryce Parker. The latter two were assisting Officer Schwartz with the DUI incident.
Barcenas has a long history of violence, disorderly conduct and robbery, according to VC Star. He had also attacked two senior citizens in 2019 in Oxnard, one of whom, Armida Castro, 71, had died several days after the attack.
The bodycam footage shows the three patrol cars parked near a grassy area and bench outside the post office between A Street and Oxnard Boulevard. Santos is speaking to the DUI suspect and you can hear Barcenas shouting as he approached the cops, "Hey, you f**king pigs. I hate you."
Santos warned her fellow officers, "Watch out...get back," as Barcenas came into view holding a long steel rod. Santos pulled out her taser, as shown in the video.
Barcenas can be seen holding the bar and approaching Schwartz, and it looks like he was lifting the pole to strike when he was shot. He was then seen stumbling and dropping the pole, which is the disturbing part of the video, which shows the footage of all three bodycams from different viewpoints.
The incident was captured in three different bodycam footage. In all of them, officers can be heard shouting: "Hey, put it down!" After the shots were fired, Schwartz said to his radio: "Shots fired. Officer needs help." The department said three of the four rounds fired hot Barcenas, He was struck in his inner right thigh, left hip, and left upper torso. Barcenas was initially treated at the scene. He was later taken to Ventura County Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The incident will now be investigated by the department's major crimes unit. The report will be submitted to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office for legal review, and an administrative review will be performed by the department's professional standards division to determine whether the cops' actions were in line with agency policy.
The DA's office will also be investigating the case to determine whether the use of force was legally justified.
True to form, the left-leaning media showed their bias.
CBS News, for example, had the headline: "Suspect allegedly armed with metal steel bar killed in Oxnard police shooting."
First of all, steel bars are metal so the headline is redundant, but let's not quibble.
Here's what they wrote:
A 60-year-old Oxnard resident died following an officer-involved shooting, police said.
The incident unfolded as officers were conducting a DUI investigation in the 100 block of West Fourth Street around 6 a.m. Sunday. There, the suspect who was not the subject of that probe allegedly ran toward officers with a metal steel bar.
As a result, police gave verbal commands to put the bar down. The suspect then allegedly continued to advance toward officers in a threatening manner, police said.
"Two of the police officers drew their department issued tasers, and one police officer drew his service weapon. The suspect advanced to within just a few feet of one of the police officers, prompting the officer involved shooting," Oxnard police said in a news release.It's almost as if CBS [and other left-leaning outlets] would like us to believe the suspect, who they don't name, was simply a resident of Oxnard and not the obvious miscreant his history shows.
The suspect was struck by gunfire and was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. No officers were injured.
Anyone who might have witnessed the incident was asked to call Det. Meagan Tobey at (805) 385-7755.
Nobody should have to die in such an incident as what took place in Oxnard, but when you leave out key information, and especially fail to show the bodycam footage of what took place, you're creating more distrust and hatred for the police and may even be promoting protests and violence in a situation in which the police response was justified.
But let's not pretend the mainstream media has no agenda.
this was done perfectly by the police any immigrant or person that tries to do something stupid like this needs to be killed
ReplyDeleteI side with the cops here too, but it shouldn't have come to this. I feel bad for anyone who has to kill another person, even when the person acted like this guy, Still, the cop has to live with it forever.
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