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The city’s proclamation effectively makes any demonstration in the next two weeks illegal and severely restricts the right to protest in the days after.
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...
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...
Officer responded to call of somebody striking vehicles with a metal rod; none found with any damage The fatal encounter unfolded around 7 a.m. last Wednesday after a 911 caller reported a man with a pry bar striking vehicles on Broadway near Second Avenue, Varso said last week. An officer arrived and tried to talk with Olson. At that point, the chief said, Olson “was not displaying any threatening behavior, and not posing a threat to police or the public,” and he ran off. A second officer, Moore, soon found Olson nearby, walking in the street and carrying the tool, Varso said last week....