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Ed Varso worked for Escondido Police Department since 2001, became chief in 2020; city expects to name internal interim chief, launch national search

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Steven Olson lingered in a decades-long cycle of arrests, jail, hospitals and release before being fatally shot by police

The video starts of by showing 911 calls made describing a man hitting vehicles with a "metal object" in the parking lot near 2nd Avenue and Grand Avenue. As the video continues, an officer, identified as Martinez, first made contact with the homeless man, identified as Steven John Olson, 59, behind a business in Escondido. Officer Martinez then tells Olson to drop the crowbar, later described by police as two feet long. Credit: Escondido Police Department. Picture of the crowbar at the scene. "Steven, Steven put the crowbar down dude," Martinez is heard saying in the video. Olson is seen ap...

0 3 minutes read Feature image: Placard reads, “Escondido police release the video.” Liberation photo: Anzy Adams Escondido Police officer Chad Moore fatally shot Steven John Olson, a houseless community member, on the morning of April 21 shortly after 7 am. Police claimed that he was holding a metal bar and threatened the officer. Video from after the incident and eyewitness testimonies seem to conflict with key points of Escondido PD’s version of events. Activists in Escondido called a protest on the night of the shooting, and continued the fight for transparency and accountabilit...