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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;">&#8216;What did he point at us?&#8217; &#8211; Det. Jarrett Tonn after shooting suspect from the backseat of moving cruiser on arrival at the scene</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;">&#8216;I don&#8217;t know, man&#8217; &#8211; Second officer </span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;">&#8216;Hey, he pointed a gun at us!&#8217; &#8211; Tonn </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Is the VPD &#8216;back filling the truth&#8217;?</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Vallejo Police officer, a member of the infamous &#8216;Fatal 14&#8217; group of officers shot dead a man who was on his knees with his hands in the air, as the officer&#8217;s cruiser pulled into a Walgreens parking lot while responding to reports of looting</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>The Vallejo Police Dept released bodycam footage of the night Sean Monterrosa, 22, was shot dead in Vallejo, California on June 2</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Footage however does not show Monterrosa before the shooting &#8211; The police cruiser did not have a dashcam, police said and CCTV allegedly had been destroyed by looters </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Police accounts of Monterrosa&#8217;s actions have also changed from their account of the night&#8217;s event</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Authorities said Monterrosa was outside a Walgreens and allegedly knelt &#8216;as if in preparation to shoot</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>They initially reported that he was on his knees and had his hands raised in the air</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Monterrosa&#8217;s family through their attorney have expressed the fear of a blue wall cover up afoot</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>The Vallejo Police Department have been the subject of dozens of lawsuits over excessive force</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Detective Jarrett Tonn shot Monterrosa dead, but in footage questioned &#8216;What did he point at us?&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Monterrosa did not have have possession of a gun, but did have a long hammer on his pocket </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, has declined state investigation of the Monterrosa killing, leaving it to the discretion of the County DA&#8217;s office</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #423232;"><strong>Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams, has also recused her office from investigating police killing of Sean Monterrosa, despite public outcry</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-350672" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sean-Monterrosa-left-was-shot-dead-by-Detective-Jarrett-Tonn-right-1.jpg" alt="Sean Monterrosa [left] was shot dead by Detective Jarrett Tonn, [right] 1" width="666" height="333" /><strong>San Francisco native Sean Monterrosa (left) was shot dead by a officer with the Vallejo Police Department, identified by local reports as Detective Jarrett Tonn, on June 2. The veteran policeman has had three prior shootings since 2015 </strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Police body camera footage was released Wednesday of the moment a 22-year-old California man on his knees was shot dead by a &#8216;Fatal 14&#8217; officer who fired from the backseat of a moving vehicle while responding to reports of looting.</span></p>
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<div class="share">The footage of the June 2 incident was officially released by the Vallejo Police Department after the family of Sean Monterrosa, 22, was allowed to view the recordings.<br />
But the video does not show any of the minutes leading up to shooting, sparking more questions than answers for the victim&#8217;s family after weeks pleading.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;It was quite surprising and shocking to us that there was no video of the actual shooting itself,&#8217; John Burris, an attorney for Monterrosa&#8217;s family, said at a news conference, </span><a class="class" style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vallejo-police-release-bodycam-video-man-fatally-shot-drug-store-n1233178" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">NBC News </a><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">reports.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Burris also pointed out that the department changed their account of Monterrosa&#8217;s actions before the shooting.<br />
Significantly VPD did not reveal the death for 24 hours. The current account also lack full video evidence.</span></div>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-350675" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Vallejo-Police-Department-released-body-camera-footage-of-the-shooting-of-Sean-Monterrosa-1.jpg" alt="Vallejo Police Department released body camera footage of the shooting of Sean Monterrosa 1" width="1053" height="593" />Vallejo Police Department released body camera footage of the shooting, but claimed to have no footage of the moments prior man 22 knees moving cruiser following mounting pressure from the family and activists</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">While the footage does show the actual shooting, it does not give a view of Monterrosa before he was shot at five times that night after &#8216;officers mistook a hammer on his person for a gun&#8217;. </span></p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The gap in the search for a comprehensive account is exacerbated by the fact that the police cruiser did not have a dash cameras either.<br />
The Vallejo Police Department said the only exterior security camera at the scene was destroyed in a &#8216;previous looting incident&#8217; after a reportedly volatile night following protests over the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of law enforcement.</p>
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<strong> Vallejo, California Police Dept release &#8216;After&#8217; video amidst controversy over police-involved fatal shooting of a presumed &#8216;looter&#8217; they believed was aiming a gun at their mving cruiser whilst on his knees, arms raised</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">On the night, three Vallejo police officers dispatched to a local Walgreens store after reports of looting and encountered the victim, Sean Monterrosa, Police Chief Shawny Williams says in a recorded message accompanying the video.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Williams adds that there was a previous incident at the scene where a police cruiser was rammed and officers reported seeing several &#8216;potential looters&#8217; get into cars and flee the scene.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">When additional officers arrived in a pickup truck at the scene, Monterrosa began running towards a vehicle, then stopped and crouched in a half-kneeling position towards the officers, according to Williams.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">An officer told investigators that he believed Monterrosa was armed that night with a gun in pocket and was kneeling &#8216;as if in preparation to shoot.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">This new account by Chief Williams contradicts an initial the police report that said Monterrosa was on his knees with his hands above his waist.</span></p>
<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-350707" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Shawny-Williams-1.jpg" alt="Shawny Williams 1" width="697" height="366" />Where lies the truth? The report released Wednesday contradicts the version from Vallejo police chief Shawny Williams [photo] in officer Jarrett Tonn’s fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa on June 2. Why the 24 hour delay in announcing the death? Monterrosa&#8217;s family believes that the VPD is &#8216;back filling the truth&#8217;</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">However, footage only shows an officer firing several rounds at Monterrosa from the backseat of the pickup truck and through the front windshield. The bodycam review shows that Det. Jarrett Tonn fired five shots.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">It&#8217;s not until after Monterrosa is lying injured and unresponsive on the concrete of the parking lot that the officer in question, identified as Detective Jarrett Tonn by local </span><a class="class" style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/08/vallejo-police-didnt-turn-on-body-cameras-until-after-sean-monterrosa-shooting-attorney-says/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">reports</a><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">, questions if the victim was armed.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;What did he point at us?&#8217; says Tonn, according to footage.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;I don&#8217;t know, man,&#8217; another officer responds.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Tonn, as if trying to convince himself and his colleagues, then exclaims: &#8216;Hey, he pointed a gun at us!&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Officers then shout at Monterrosa&#8217;s still body &#8216;don&#8217;t move&#8217; and &#8216;Put your hands out&#8217; as they exit their vehicles and approach the victim.</span></div>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-350683" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jarrett-Tonn-shot-Monterrosa-5-times-from-the-back-seat-of-the-cruiser-1.jpg" alt="Jarrett Tonn shot Monterrosa 5 times from the back seat of the cruiser 1" width="679" height="369" />Bodycam footage shows that Det. Tonn shot five times at Monterrosa from the backseat of a police cruiser</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-350684" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jarret-Tonn-ask-other-cops-What-did-he-point-at-us-1.jpg" alt="Jarret Tonn ask other cops, What did he point at us 1" width="672" height="377" />After shooting Monterrosa, Tonn is then heard asking his colleagues &#8216;What did he point at us?&#8217; The report showed that officer Tonn shot and killed Monterrosa before the vehicle stopped and he ascertained that the victim was unarmed or in a menacing posture<br />
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">After shooting Monterrosa, Det. Tonn is heard asking his colleagues &#8216;What did he point at us?&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">They then grab a medical kit from the vehicle and begin administering chest compressions.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Later, Tonn can be heard speaking to another officer and admitting &#8216;I though that ax was a gun.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">The uncertainty of Tonn&#8217;s response is cause for worry and suggests no proper motivation for lethal force,&#8217; Burris said.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;Any time a life is lost, it&#8217;s tragic, and our thoughts are with Mr. Monterrosa&#8217;s family at this time,&#8217; said Williams in a final message.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">An investigation into the case is ongoing and Tonn, a police veteran of 18 years, was placed on administrative leave.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">However Burris maintains that without seeing Monterrosa&#8217;s actions before the shooting, the police departments justification of using fatal force is not validated.<br />
|The young man could have been in the midst of surrendering, Burris said.</span></div>
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<p>Speaking to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/08/sean-monterrosa-body-camera-video-police-killing">The Guardian</a> Burris highlighted the contradictions exposed by the footage, released more than a month after the killing, that shows that t<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">he officer fired the shots from inside his car before he had fully stopped his vehicle.<br />
Furthermore, i</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">n the seconds after the shooting, two officers questioned whether Monterrosa was armed, Tonne is heard saying: “What did he point at us?” and the other responding: “I don’t know.”<br />
Reinforcing his argument is the fact that a</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">fter the shooting, an officer suggested that Monterrosa was fleeing, saying: “He ran, he ran!”.<br />
Another </span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"> officer had multiple outbursts after the killing, shouting: “This is not what I fucking needed today!” and “Stupid!<br />
</span>The footage makes clear there was “no de-escalation” and “no justification” for lethal force, said John Burris, the family’s attorney.<br />
“He was never given a chance. He was just shot,” Burris</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong> <span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350689" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sean-Monterrosa-4.jpg" alt="Sean Monterrosa 4" width="1071" height="811" /></span></strong><strong>Valley of death: The victim Sean </strong><strong>Monterrosa [photo], is the 18th resident killed in a police-involved shooting in Vallejo since 2010, local activists said</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;We want to know whether it&#8217;s a police officer&#8217;s imagination that justified the shooting or that there&#8217;s some real evidence to support that,&#8217; Burris told NBC News.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Monterrosa&#8217;s death comes as pressure against law enforcement mounts nationwide over allegations of repeated police brutality, racial profiling and excessive use of force.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Monterrosa&#8217;s family and police brutality protesters repeatedly called for body camera footage of the incident to be released, but did not receive anything from authorities until a month later.<br />
At the local level the recent tense relationship between police and the civilian population is in step with the mounting</span></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"> tensions between law enforcement and civilians nationwide, the small city of Vallejo has already been eroded by years of excessive force and alleged brutality from local officers.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">More than a dozen police officers with the Vallejo Police Department are known as a the ‘Fatal 14’ by residents because they have repeatedly shot and killed civilians, apparently without severe consequences.<br />
The most recent officer-involved shooting in happened June 2nd when Monterrosa of San Francisco was shot outside a Walgreens on Redwood Street, during a night of looting.<br />
Detective Jarrett Tonn, who shot Sean Monterrosa on the night of June 2, is one of those police officers and was involved in at least three other shootings in just three years.<br />
Det. Tonn fired five shots from inside his cruiser, hitting Monterrosa who had a hammer in his pocket, which Tonn an 18-year veteran claims he thought was a firearm.<br />
Police typically have 45 days to release officer video of the incident unless it interferes with the investigation.<br />
Until the protests apparently forced their hand,s Vallejo police had given no such indication, prompting victim&#8217;s attorney John Burris to request the release of video evidence.<br />
‘The fatal 14 are the 14 officers who are currently still on VPD staff who have been part of more than one police shooting,’ said resident Obinna Chinaka, one of the protesters who demanded body camera footage be released told <a class="class" href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/protesters-demand-body-camera-video-from-deadly-vallejo-police-shooting" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">KTVU</a>.<br />
‘And have not been reprimanded or removed from the staff.’<br />
In one instance, former officer Sean Kenney shot dead three residents over a five month span. He was later promoted to detective.<br />
Monterrosa&#8217;s death is the 18th police-involved shooting since 2010 in Vallejo.<br />
Residents have called for the department to be defunded after there were 18 fatal police shootings since 2010.<br />
The Vallejo Police Department was also the subject of several lawsuits over police brutality and excessive force.<br />
The California Department of Justice spoke with Vallejo officials to implement an &#8216;extensive review&#8217; of the police department.</p>
<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350688" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sean-Monterrosa-3.jpg" alt="Sean Monterrosa 3" width="1027" height="767" /></span></strong><strong>The most recent officer-involved shooting in Vallejo, Calif., happened June 2nd when 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa of San Francisco was shot outside a Walgreens on Redwood Street, during a night of looting. </strong><strong>Activists say &#8216;We want to know whether it&#8217;s a police officer&#8217;s imagination that justified the shooting [of Sean Monterrosa], or that there&#8217;s some real evidence to support that&#8217;. </strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">The Vallejo Police Department, just 30 miles from Monterrosa&#8217;s home in San Francisco, was the subject of dozens of lawsuits over excessive force and overly forceful policing.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">In one case, four officers were seen on body camera footage attacking an unarmed white man with punches, kicks and batons as he screamed &#8216;I didn&#8217;t do anything!<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Tonn has become one of 14 officers whom residents call the &#8216;Fatal 14&#8217; because they&#8217;ve repeatedly shot and killed civilians.<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/OpenVallejo/status/1269071225663307777">Open Vallejo,</a> an independent and nonpartisan public interest newsroom, </span>reported <span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">that Tonn was involved in at least three other shootings dating between 2015 and 2017.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">In those instances, victims Gerald Brown and Kevin DeCarlo suffered gunshot wounds. Victor Hurtado, a third victim, was shot at but avoided injury.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Monterrosa&#8217;s death is the 18th fatal police shooting since 2010, and the majority of victims were Black and brown men.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">The victim&#8217;s sisters have been vocal in their questioning of the Vallejo police, which they said misrepresented the timeline of Monterrosa&#8217;s death.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">An initial press release failed to explain that Monterrosa was dead, and Chief Williams did not disclose that fact until the next afternoon during a press conference.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">According to Monterrosa&#8217;s family, he was confirmed dead about one hour after he was admitted to a local hospital for treatment.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;The department worked as quickly as reasonably possible to gather accurate information from the initial phases of the investigation to share with the public,&#8217; the department said on it&#8217;s website.<br />
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Echoing the family&#8217;s concerns,in his interview with the </span><a class="class" style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/08/sean-monterrosa-body-camera-video-police-killing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">The Guardian</a><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">, Burris said the department&#8217;s shifting narrative of the incident was indicative of their embattled past.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;The Vallejo police union concocted a different scenario once they knew there was no tape,&#8217; said Burris.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;This is what happens with police departments and in Vallejo.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Additionally, the police department never released any evidence indicating that Monterrosa was engaged in any criminal activity that night. His sisters don&#8217;t know what he was doing in Vallejo.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Before Monterrosa&#8217;s death, the California Department of Justice spoke with Vallejo officials to implement an &#8216;extensive review&#8217; of the police department.<br />
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<h6><strong> <img class="alignnone wp-image-350704" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Xavier-Becerra-1.jpg" alt="US-POLICE-SHOOTING" width="945" height="608" />California Attorney General Xavier Becerra [photo], has declined state investigation of the Monterrosa killing</strong></h6>
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<h6><strong> <img class="alignnone wp-image-350697" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Timothy-S-Grayson-tweet-on-police-killing-of-Sean-Monterrosa-1.jpg" alt="Timothy S Grayson tweet on police killing of Sean Monterrosa 1" width="692" height="1267" />California California Assembly member Timothy S. Grayson released a statement calling for an independent investigation into the shooting of Sean Monterrosa </strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-350702" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Krishna-Abrams-1.jpg" alt="Krishna Abrams 1" width="953" height="646" />Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams [photo], has recused her office from investigating police killing of Sean Monterrosa despite public outcry</strong></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">CA Assembly member Timothy S. Grayson, representing District 14, said in a statement that he requested a private investigation into the matter.<br />
&#8216;Regardless of the circumstances, it is absolutely unacceptable that the public was forced to wait over 24 hours to learn of the conditions of those involved in the shooting,&#8217; he said.<br />
However, Attorney General Xavier Becerra has declined investigating the matter and left it to the Solano County District Attorney&#8217;s Office to decide with Tonn would face charges.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">District Attorney Krishna Abrams recused her office from the investigation as well.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;As our attorney general has said himself, when our communities speak up we must listen … I too am listening and hearing their pleas for an independent investigation,&#8217; said Abrams.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">A </span><a class="class" style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gofundmecomSeanMonterrosa?fbclid=IwAR1EksNVMIB9ZbGjvfYg2CeSfNJ3myNcO-0JgtmPx5w7mbfbM9tU1B3HvfA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">GoFundMe</a><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"> campaign has been set up to help Monterrosa&#8217;s family pay for funeral expenses has raised over $191,000 of the $200,000 goal.</span></div>
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Report contradicts Vallejo police chief Shawny Williams’ statement in officer fatal shooting of unarmed Sean Monterrosa, 22 – who was on his knees with his hands in the air – from the backseat of a moving police cruiser last month
