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Escondido, California — The Escondido Police Department released body camera and surveillance cameras footage that shows an officer fatally shooting a man last week and the events leading up to the incident. The man killed was identified as 59-year-old Steven Olson. On 4/21/2021, at 7:01 a.m., the Escondido Police Department Communications Center received a call from a reporting party advising that there was an adult male subject hitting cars with a “metal pole†in the area of 2nd Ave and Broadway in Escondido.
Officer Chad Moore approached him shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday. Police say the officer told Olson to drop the pole multiple times, but Olson refused and ended up fleeing the area. Police say Olson continued to advance toward the officer, as he gave multiple commands for Olson to drop the objects. As Olson continued toward the officer, the officer fired several shots from his service weapon. Officers rendered first aid until Escondido Fire Paramedics arrived on scene. Olson was transported to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.
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Bad shooting, he's gonna get fired and be working in the next county in a month. Sad
He asked and instructed him a million times to drop the crow bar …. and he kept advancing toward him. Sure he’s an old man but cmon … don’t do that and listen to the officer and done that’s it contact over … you idiots go ahead and send your social workers out there I feel bad for em. Gunna be more dead and injured social workers than there are crazy people.
Bruh,that's too many shots wtf
Shot him SEVEN times? Ridiculous. Where was his taser? SMH
See, maybe it isn't all about race?!
Why this murderer copdog has not a taser? This action isnt justified at all and he has to pay because his criminal action.
Kinda weird to see stuff kinda local
whoever shot him is a terrible human being hope they burn in hell
one shot in the leg wouldn't be enough? The policeman fired 5 shots that would surely kill a mentally ill person.
Wow emptied a whole freaking clip .over kill I would say
Why would you unload on him, he could of atleast tried not to shoot him….
damn this whole thing is raw… damn dude… really….
I too like to say what the cop should've done, being that it wasnt my skull about to get cracked with a crowbar
police shooting homless man or BLASTING HIM 2 ft in front of him…jesus
I find it funny that cops always know homeless people by their first name. Do they have prior encounters with the same homeless people? It doesn’t look like the guy who called knew who he was.
Jesus why he dump that many rounds in him, I'd say just 1 would be enough to drop the wasted old fool
"That's not full auto"
"This is full auto"
I understand they could not let him get away as he could potentially threaten somebody else but I hate to see so many rounds fired off. I understand they are trained do to shoot until the threat is disabled. I was not an officer's position and it happened so quickly it's hard to tell, but perhaps the officer perceived it took that many rounds for the suspect to go down and drop the pipe? I don't know. All I know is it's easy to offer other Solutions when the reality is they cannot let this man get away and they needed him to drop the weapon. What else is there to be done? Keep running away and negotiating with a clearly drunk in and out of his mind man? This is painful to watch
I hope at some point in the next 1000 years we'll finally see a cop that takes the time to line up a fucking leg shot on an otherwise slow moving and petty threat. Guy just needed a reality check. Little bop on the head woulda knocked the stupid out of him. Or not. Ah well onto the next one!
Taser??
I honestly don't know what this guy was capable of he's obviously old but was he drugged up? Could he have bashed in the officers head or gored him with the end of it? Now I'm not one to condemn shootings and say a tazer would have done the job but I mean this wasnt a tense situation where a split second could mean life or death he obviously had enough time to use a tazer and them some instead of fucking mag dumping into this old guy
Whatever happened to a taser
RIP STEVEN
Man its really weird to see your city in these videos like i know the exact street there on I live like 10 mins away from where this happened
This is not justified cop should arrested and charged thats unprofessional i didn't see that old man tries to hit him with that crowbar
What the fuck!?!?!
Fire and charge this EX-Officer for excessive force with a deadly weapon
One in the leg would’ve done plenty .. killers
Why did he have to unload on him. Does this cop think he’s Leon from resident evil?
So so not necessary. The cop must be a pussy if that old man scared him enough to blow his ars away like that . What a shame .
i was gonna say they didnt need to shoot him that many times but they probably did him a favor
I always take the police side but this one is disgusting and why shoot so many times
Okay usually I wouldn't comment on how situations are handled, but honestly, anyone who has ever been in a fight or wrestled at all could've disarmed this man. Too easy. A simple arm grab and judo throw would've be good enough. Or maybe a Taser/Baton. There were 100% other routes to take other than ending this mans life.
This was a bad shoot, the officer is not fit for service. He needs to be terminated.
Wow 😳 you could have Spartan kicked him instead of unloading your whole clip… bro if u can’t fight an old crazy man why are you a cop this was sissy times a hundo.
Should’ve just tased him in the initial encounter. Honestly, at least simple battery would be more effective catching these suspects off-guard than death.
Probably shouldn’t be a cop if you can over power an old man with with a pipe. Just saying.
Dude wtf he could just tackle him to the ground thats it but nah he just gave this poor crackhead full mag….. like just help him he is lost…
(15 years before )cop as a little boyâ€I wanna be a cop when I grow up daddy, so I can shot bad guys pew pew pew ,daddy why is mommy’s eyes black “drunk daddy “shut up mommy’s fine “
You could have used something called a taser.
Terrible. Wasting your ammo on a level 1 zombie who's barely aware of your presence.
Morel of the story: don't bring a stick to a gun fight
PIG
Could have tased him, OCed him or gone hands on… or any combo of the three. Nobody needed to die, that's bad work.
the god damn cop could have used a fuckin taser!!!
i hope this cop got arrested!