By Bob Walsh
In 2014 four SFPD officers shot and killed a man. The family filed a federal civil rights suit alleging the usual. Acting yesterday a federal jury decided that the cops in fact did NOT violate the civil rights of the dead guy.
Alejandro Nieto, 27, a city college student and licensed security guard, was shot to death when the cops fired a total of 48 rounds at him. They did so when he pulled what the media describes as a Taser and the cops mistook it for a handgun. (Assuming it was in fact a Taser they do resemble a handgun, except for the fact they are mostly bright yellow.)
Almost exactly two years ago Nieto was in legal possession of the Taser which he used on his security job. He stopped at a park in Bernal Heights to scarf a burrito. The cops responded to somebody calling dispatch about a man with a gun in the park.
There was one non-cop witness to the event, Antonio Theodore. He swears the dead guy had his hands in his pockets when he was shot. He is also an alky with poor vision, an admittedly bad memory and who was not wearing his glasses and was 115 feet away from the shooting scene.
About twenty minutes before the shooting Nieto drew his Taser on a pet dog that was trying to hijack his burrito. The dog’s owner asserted that he was “terrified” and thought the Taser was a gun. The dog’s owner also sent out some racist tweets afterwards, asserted that he thought Nieto might have been a gang member due to his red jacket, and expressed the wish he could have shot Nieto.
EDITOR’S NOTE: What in the fuck was the DA thinking when his eyewitness was a drunk with poor vision who was 115 feet away from the scene and not wearing his eyeglasses?
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