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This guy is toast.Can we now stop pretending Antifa is not a terrorist organization?
Las Vegas: Rioter Shoots Police Officer in the Head from Behind
Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told a press briefing an officer was shot around 11 p.m. Monday night and is in critical condition.www.breitbart.com
Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told a press briefing an officer was shot around 11 p.m. Monday night and is in critical condition and on life support at University Medical Center.Lombardo said officers were dealing with a large group of rioters at a George Floyd protest near the Circus Circus hotel-casino when the officer went down...“Our officers were attempting to take rocks and bottles from the crowd,” said Lombardo during the press conference. “Officers were attempting to get some of the protesters in custody when a shot rang out and our officer went down.”
Both shooters were caught, one killed and the other unfortunately was taken alive.
Prosecutor: Suspect in Las Vegas cop’s shooting admitted firing gun
Prosecutor: Suspect in Las Vegas cop’s shooting admitted firing gun
Prosecutors told a judge on Thursday that the suspect, Edgar Samaniego, admitted to firing his gun outside Circus Circus but said he was intending to scare off protesters.
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He “admitted to police that he had fired a shot but claimed that he was just trying to scare the protesters into leaving and did not even know police were there,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Thomas Moskal said during a hearing for Samaniego on unrelated DUI and drug charges.
Video surveillance at the scene of the shooting late Monday night showed Samaniego walking away from Las Vegas Boulevard, turning over his left shoulder and reaching for what appeared to be a gun before Mikalonis was shot, prosecutors have said. Police later found cartridges that matched Samaniego’s weapon at the scene and on a balcony at the Travelodge.
Samaniego was with an unnamed 17-year-old girl at the hotel when he was found. He had turned 20 that day.
“The minor female told police that defendant had told her he shot someone earlier that night while he was out of the room,” Moskal wrote in court briefs.
Later, a security guard who said he was 10 feet away from the shooting identified Samaniego with “100 percent certainty,” according to the prosecutor. Police found a Glock 19 handgun with 9mm FC Luger rounds under a mattress in Samaniego’s room.