Cop Shoots 8th Grader After He "Charges" At Cop

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Between March 2006 and November 2010, Officer Daniel Alvarado of San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District Police was suspended four times. Four times he was informed by supervisors that he faced “immediate termination.” For some reason, when it came time to fire Alvarado, his superiors just couldn’t bring themselves to pull the trigger. Alvarado displayed no similar scruples on November 12, 2010, when he murdered 14-year-old Derek Lopez, who had just taken part in a brief scuffle with another student.

Owing to his own troubled past, Lopez was a student at the Bexar County Juvenile Justice Academy. At around 4:30 PM on the fatal day, Lopez sucker-punched a 13-year-old classmate at a bus stop.

“He just hit me once,” the student later recalled in a sworn deposition. “It wasn’t a fight. It was nothing.”

Unfortunately, Alvarado happened to be prowling the intersection in his patrol car, and witnessed the trivial dust-up.


“Freeze!” Alvarado shouted at Lopez, who bolted from the scene. Alvarado, in his mid-40s, briefly gave token pursuit before relating the first of several self-serving falsehoods.

“I just had one run from me,” wheezed the winded tax-feeder. “I saw an assault in progress. He punched the guy several times.” (Emphasis added.)

A supervisor instructed Alvarado “not [to] do any big search over there” in pursuit of the assailant. “Let’s stay with the victim and see if we can identify [the suspect] that way.”

Rather than doing as he was ordered, Alvarado bundled the “victim” — who was probably more terrified of the armed functionary than of his obnoxious classmate — into the patrol car and went in pursuit of Lopez.

Lopez vaulted a nearby fence and hid in a backyard shed containing Christmas decorations. The homeowner saw the intrusion, and a neighbor flagged down Alvarado’s patrol car. The officer drew his gun “when he came up the driveway,” recalled the homeowner. Within a minute or so, a single gunshot resonated through the neighborhood. When asked by the horrified homeowner what had happened, Alvarado — who reportedly looked “dazed or distant” — replied that Lopez “came at me.”

“The suspect bull rushed his way out of the shed and lunged right at me,” the timorous creature later claimed in an official report. “The suspect was literally inches away from me, and I feared for my own safety.”(Emphasis added.)

Alvarado was lying, of course. An autopsy revealed “no evidence of close range firing [on] the wound,” and no gunpowder stains were found on the victim’s bloody t-shirt.

By this time, the boy who had taken the punch at the bus stop had called his mother via cell phone. She arrived shortly after Alvarado had gunned down Lopez.

“At one point, the mother told a witness, `He shot him? Why did he shoot him? He didn’t have to shoot him,” reports the San Antonio News-Express.

Alvarado, who four times was on the cusp of being fired for insubordination, disobeyed a direct order on November 12. He falsified key details of the shooting in his official report. A 14-year-old boy was gunned down execution-style for the venial offense of engaging in an adolescent scuffle, and for compelling an overweight middle-aged badge-polisher to run a few hundred yards. According to the San Antonio Police Department, this is all perfectly acceptable: The department ruled that the murder of Derek Lopez was a “justified” shooting.

Although he’s been removed from patrol duty, Alvarado remains on the force, albeit in a tax-subsidized sinecure. Although he had repeatedly been threatened with termination for sloppiness or defiance in carrying out administrative duties, Alvarado faces neither criminal prosecution nor professional censure for murdering a 14-year-old boy. Apparently, insubordination in carrying out office functions is a much graver matter than insubordination that results in the needless death of an adolescent Mundane.

Despite the fact that this incident involved two teenage boys who attended a special school for troubled juveniles, parents should understand that students in practically any government-run “educational” institution can fall prey to sudden — and potentially lethal — police violence.

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that increasingly have come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning,” observes investigative reporter Annette Fuentes in her infuriating and valuable new book Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse. Federally subsidized “zero tolerance” policies growing out of the “War on Drugs” have created what Fuentes and other critics of the system call the “school-to-prison pipeline”: “If yesterday’s prank got a slap on the wrist, today those wrists could be slapped with handcuffs.”

As the case of Derek Lopez illustrates, a childish prank could be treated as a capital offense, with summary execution carried out by a corrupt cop who doesn’t have to endure so much as a slap on the wrist.

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Wow. Talk about colorful journalism.

I won't defend the officer's actions if he did wrong, but this is only one side (and a slanted one) of the story. The writer makes multiple snide remarks throughout the article at the cop's expense and I would be willing to bet my next paycheck has never worn a badge.

If the officer should have been fired multiple times, the family of this student need to file a lawsuit against the department.

It also shows the need for officers to wear body cameras which wouldve captured a better depiction of this incident. They arent expensive and can make or break cases, thus saving a lot of heartache for departments/victims/etc. I know some of our local police departments, including school police, use them. It saved an officer here fairly recently from a lawsuit and charges after a student falsified (and had "witnesses") an incident of police abuse.
 
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Yeah, I find myself in the awkward and pretentious possition of completely agreeing with the article and at the same time thinking it's very unproffesional and rather ****tily written.

But regardless, even painted in the best light that cop was still grossly incompitent and his stupidity led to a needless death. The fact that the police for is protecting him is deeply disturbing.
 
See,Ye Police are dangerous fascists who torture people for no reason other then ye fact that ye police are straight up sadists.
All police(wo)men ought to be tried for crimes against humanity
 
SMH What a piece of ****. The boy didn't deserve that. Just sad.
 
See,Ye Police are dangerous fascists who torture people for no reason other then ye fact that ye police are straight up sadists.
All police(wo)men ought to be tried for crimes against humanity

A little extreme, dont you think?
 
A little extreme, dont you think?

Well, I have seen first hand what they do to people who are born with issues beyond their controls. I've seen then brutally attack people for being tired and having broken glasses.
So, no, I don't think it's extreme.
 
Yeah, I find myself in the awkward and pretentious possition of completely agreeing with the article and at the same time thinking it's very unproffesional and rather ****tily written.

But regardless, even painted in the best light that cop was still grossly incompitent and his stupidity led to a needless death. The fact that the police for is protecting him is deeply disturbing.

I agree with the bolded 100%
 
See,Ye Police are dangerous fascists who torture people for no reason other then ye fact that ye police are straight up sadists.
All police(wo)men ought to be tried for crimes against humanity

A generalization that is CLEARLY wrong. Thanks for playing.

Law enforcement work isnt much different than other work or anything else. You have good people and you have bad people. You have good people who screw up sometimes and so on.
Obviously, the best case scenario would be that police work attracts and collects those with the highest moral fiber. Unfortunately, that isnt the case all of the time. Despite that, I have the firm belief that most (but not all) policemen/women work their beat because they genuinely like to help people and safeguard the community. They certainly dont do it for the crappy hours or crappy pay.
 
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Well, I have seen first hand what they do to people who are born with issues beyond their controls. I've seen then brutally attack people for being tired and having broken glasses.
So, no, I don't think it's extreme.


I hope and believe you're being sarcastic.
 
Even if the kid did rush him, there was no need to shoot him. The guy was obviously not fit to be a cop.
 
I looked for the official news story.
you won't find it, that news story was released "for print only"


Also don't want to get shot by the cops then don't
1)commit a crime in front of them
2)flee after committing said crime
3)Hid in a shed (seriously keep fleeing)
4)Trespass on someone's property in Tx.

This kid deserved to get shot for being stupid, but he didn't deserve to die
 
Cool. Just be sure to keep that attitude if someone assaults a member of your family, breaks into your car or steals your tv.

:cwink:
I live in N.O. Our cops corrupt as hell. I suspect they stole my stuff before anybody else. :dry:
 
I live in N.O. Our cops corrupt as hell. I suspect they stole my stuff before anybody else. :dry:

If you have had a bad experience with your local law enforcement, I am very sorry. As I stated above, it is VERY unfortunate, but yes, there are bad police out there. Those certain ones should be handled appropriately, whether it is losing their job, prosecution or whatever.
However, PLEASE dont make a broad generalization like that based on the actions of a few.
 
This officer was in the wrong, but I also must admit that my gut reaction to those who distrust ALL police is "you're an idiot".
 
I still stand by my statement. **** the police. You can only judge by what you know. I'v way too many scandals and ******** from the police. Yeah they got some goods ones, but so many say a lot of bad.
 
And it's never been a fact of reality that the negative gets more attention and exposure than the positive.
 
Im just saying how I feel. I dont distrust all cops. They have many great cops. All saying is that where I LIVE I don't trust them. Their corrupt and power hungry. That just figures into my view of all cops though.
 

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