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Utah Governor Declares a State of Emergency Due to ‘Civil Unrest’

By Rick Moran

Salt Lake City police received reports last May 23 of a man making “threats with a weapon” and when they responded, they ended up shooting and killing Bernardo Palacios Carbajal.

The district attorney investigated and found the shooting “justified.” The mob responded with demonstrations that turned violent and today, Utah Governor Gary Herbert declared a “state of emergency” for Salt Lake City.

The Hill:

Protesters flooded the streets after the Salt Lake County district attorney announced that the May police killing of Bernardo Palacios Carbajal was justified.

“In the case of the Salt Lake City Officer Involved Critical Incident that resulted in the death of Bernardo Palacios Carbajal, District Attorney Sim Gill’s findings provide significant evidence of the justifiable actions of Salt Lake City police officers,” Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall (D) said in a statement after the news was released. “This evidence shows that our officers acted according to their training and the state law regarding use of lethal force.”

This was an open-and-shut case of a justified shooting by the police, as the Salt Lake affiliate of CNN reports.

The use of deadly force actually happened during two separate episodes, he said. The first was when officers were chasing Palacios. At that time, officers thought he had a gun, which is why they had their guns drawn as they were running after him, according to the report. But it wasn’t until Palacios dropped his weapon a third time and stopped to pick it up that they knew for sure that it was a gun.

At that point, the two officers fired six to eight rounds each from about 15 feet away, striking Palacios in the back. Both officers fired at nearly the same time, Gill said.

full story at https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/07/10/utah-governor-declares-a-state-of-emergency-due-to-civil-unrest-n630082

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