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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Video: Man pulls gun on N.C. trooper before fatal shooting
2024-03-01
[Police1] SILER CITY, N.C. — A motorist had a gun in his hand as he stepped out of a pickup truck during a traffic stop for not wearing a seat belt and was fatally shot by a North Carolina state trooper, a video released Tuesday by the State Highway Patrol showed.

Trooper Rodney Cook, a 16-year veteran of the patrol, shot and killed Mark Anthony Diaz, 21, of Staley, on May 30. The video was released after a judge signed a petition filed at the request of the patrol.

"Sarge, he pulled a gun on me," Cook said to a supervisor who arrived moments after the shooting. "Freaking seat belt violation." Shortly after that comment, the sound on the video is muted. Diaz didn’t fire a shot before he was hit, the video showed.

Cook has been placed on routine administrative duty during an internal investigation, the Highway Patrol said last week.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11   This was from 2022.

June 08, 2022. Good catch, Silentbrick!
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-03-01 18:27  

#10  Be interesting to see what could be seen at the point the cop decided on his U-turn.
There in the vid, it looks as if the other lane could not be seen.
Closest would be the two inside lanes--opposing traffic--across the median. At what closing speed?
Have to be something obvious to spook the cop.
And to exit the car with a pistoln?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2024-03-01 17:09  

#9  This was from 2022. Even the family shut up after seeing the video.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2024-03-01 15:31  

#8  Beyond a certain distance

Check the 2nd video.
Outside lanes of a 6 lane highway with median.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-03-01 14:58  

#7  

With initial 2024 primary elections already showing its gonna be TRUMP vs Biden or Obama's substitution.

With 12+ Million Illegals, MS-13 and the Drug Cartels already here .....wait for it.

RIOTS

HLM - Hispanic Lives Matter or MLB- Mexican Lives Matter
Posted by: Close Wittlesbach4272   2024-03-01 11:42  

#6  ^But that won't change the reality. And, anyways, they don't need race riots right now.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-03-01 11:33  

#5  48-72 hour rule on this one. If this can flipped to 'driving while Mexican' it will be.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-03-01 10:35  

#4  Is there footage showing distance prior to the U-turn? Beyond a certain distance, characteristics for profile, and seatbelts, are not visible.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2024-03-01 10:25  

#3  Cook makes a U-turn on U.S. Highway 64 in Siler City to catch up with a truck whose occupants weren’t wearing seat belts

Smells like a profile stop.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-03-01 07:21  

#2  




Points gun at LEO thru driver window


Then exits the vehicle with the weapon still in hand moving towards the LEO.

Common Sense logic any of us would follow, or have applied:

ITS A JUSTIFIED SHOOT


Posted by: NN2N1   2024-03-01 06:44  

#1  Mark Anthony Diaz, 21 ... had a gun in his hand as he stepped out of a pickup truck during a traffic stop for not wearing a seat belt

A death of a young man is a tragedy. 🤣
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-03-01 02:47  

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