Cop Shoots Innocent Homeowner/ Coverup plans recorded on 911 tape!

[DaRizzle]

PHOENIX (CN) - A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer's partner saying, "That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?" The family says the officers were not aware that the 911 call was still recording as they spoke about covering up the shooting.
In their complaint in Maricopa County Court, Anthony and Lesley Arambula say an armed intruder "crashed through the front window" of their home on Sept. 17, 2008 and ran into one of their son's bedrooms.
Anthony, worried about his son who was still in his bedroom, says he "held the intruder calmly at gunpoint" and called 911.
Phoenix Police officers already in the neighborhood heard the crash of the Arambulas' window. When they approached the house, Lesley says, she told Sgt. Sean Coutts that her husband was inside holding the intruder at gunpoint. Lesley says Coutts failed to pass on that information to the two other officers.
Inside the house, the Arambulas say, Officer Brian Lilly shot Anthony six times in the back while he was still on the phone with the 911 operator - twice when he was on the ground.
The officers ran into the bedroom after Anthony told them, "You just killed ... you just killed the homeowner. The bad guy is in there."
The complaint states that Officer Lilly "admitted that it was only after Tony was laying, bullet-ridden, on the ground that he assessed the situation. The 911 tape continued to record what happened even after Officer Lilly unloaded his weapon into Tony, including Officer Lilly's post-shooting, one-word 'assessment': 'Fuck.'
"Tony believed he was going to die; the 911 tape records his plaintive goodbye to his family: '... I love you ... I love you.' Then Tony made what he believed was a dying request to the officers; he did not want his young family to see him shot and bloodied. Officers callously ignored his request and painfully dragged Tony by his injured leg, through the home and out to his backyard patio, where they left him bloodied and shot right in front of Lesley, Matthew and Zachary."
The Arambulas say the officers later dragged Anthony onto gravel, then put him on top of the hot hood of a squad car, and "drove the squad car down the street with Tony lying on top, writing in pain."
According to the complaint, Lilly can be heard on the 911 tape telling Coutts, "We fucked up."
Lilly says on the tape that he did not know where Anthony's gun was when he shot him and that he "opened fire because he heard loud noises and saw someone who looked like he might be the 'Hispanic' male they were pursuing" before getting to the Arambulas' house, according to the complaint.
The complaint states: "Sgt. Coutts knew that officers has just shot up and likely killed an innocent homeowner and the husband of Lesley, with whom he had spoken before entering the home, instead of the armed intruder. Sgt. Coutts was quick to commence the cover-up of their terrible mistake. Sgt. Coutts asked Office Lilly where Tony's gun was at the time Officer Lilly had opened fire on Tony. Officer Lilly admitted that he did not know where Tony's gun was: 'I don't know. I heard screaming and I fired.'"
Lilly later told a police internal affairs investigator that Anthony had pointed his gun in his direction, "in the 'ready' position," the complaint states. But Anthony Arambula says he was facing away from the officers, who could not have even seen his gun.
The complaint continues: "Still not knowing that he is being recorded n the 911 tape, Sgt. Coutts interrupted Officer Lilly's admission and apology with his assurance that the cover-up would commence: 'That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?'"
After the shooting, the Arambulas say, the Phoenix Police Department treated them "like suspects in a drug bust," denying Lesley, Michael and Zachary information about Anthony's condition and denying friends and family members access to him at the hospital.
Anthony Arambula survived, but continues to suffer pain, which he expects will last for the rest of his life.
The City of Phoenix and Officer Dzenan Ahmetovic also are named as defendants.
The Arambulas seek punitive damages for gross negligence, civil rights violations, failure to supervise, excessive force, deliberate indifference to medical needs, false arrest, and emotional distress. They are represented by Michael Manning with Stinson Morrison Hecker.

holy shit...
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/..._Cover-Up_After_Shooting.htm?=protectandserve

 

[NJNetz]

This reminds me of "The Shield".

 

[Natebishop3]

Wow.....

 

[maxiep]

Those are two cops you'll see patrolling a mall in a few months.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Let's hope they get justice served on them in prison somehow.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Wow, that's crazy. I hope those dumb bastards get what they deserve.

 

[Rodolfo]

The victim is going to get a shitload of money from the city of Phoenix.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I just can't figure out why there's such a crisis of confidence when it comes to the police ...

 

[Mamba]

Of course the negative articles are put out there. Let us all ignore the damn good things cops do every day and point out the bad things that happen when the media decides to put it out there.

What they did was disgusting, but those six officers don't account for the many LEO's out there.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'm pretty impressed with/disgusted by the fact that the cops shot a guy brandishing a weapons six times and he's still talking about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's alive...but the adage "anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice" seems not enough for these clowns.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

There are so many things wrong with this on so many levels . . . but the way the police handled the case after the shooting sounds criminal to me.

 

[MARIS61]

Those are two cops you'll see patrolling a mall in a few months.

I certainly hope not.

I'd think they'd be pacing a jail cell for many years to come.

Incompetence aside, they're guilty of a long list of crimes, some of them felonies.

Obstruction of justice, reckless endangering, torture...

Sadly typical of the kind of people who are attracted to law enforcement careers.

 

[mook]

There is probably not a luckier guy who has been shot six times on the planet. That guy, his kids and his great grand kids are going to be set for life by the time the lawsuit is over.

I always wonder what life is like for a guy like Sgt Coutts a year or five years from now. What's it like to know that your kids have to go to school and be told by everyone that your dad is a corrupt SOB? The utter shame of it would be unbearable for me.

I saw the Paris Hilton episode on South Park the other night. How much money would her father have to earn to make it worth it to know that people call your kid a "stupid spoiled whore"? And there's no argument to refute it?

Thank god for kids. Among their many other benefits, they make even the most repugnant selfish assholes vulnerable.

 

[BrianFromWA]

speaking of the corrupt cop, and kids....what kind of moral teaching is going on in that home?

 

[BenDavis503]

This one makes cops look good.