By David Goodhue
Miami Herald
MIAMI — The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office launched physique digicam footage Monday from a deputy capturing an armed man throughout an intense shootout in Goulds in September.
The footage exhibits the deputy strategy a Honda minivan parked exterior a small grocery retailer at Southwest 216th Street and 122nd Avenue round 7:40 p.m. Sept. 16 together with his gun drawn. The deputy, Sgt. Gilberto Crespo, responded to the realm after receiving stories that the person was pointing a gun at individuals.
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Crespo, a 19-year-veteran on the division, repeatedly orders the person, 44-year-old Jose Pineda, Jr., to point out his fingers. Pineda responds, “I ain’t got no hands,” the footage exhibits. Crespo reiterated, “Let me see your [expletive] hands,” and once more, Pineda countered with, “I ain’t got no hands.”
The footage doesn’t present a transparent picture of Pineda sitting within the driver’s seat of the van, however the deputy opens fireplace seconds later, at first advancing ahead as he shoots, however then operating backwards persevering with to fireplace as gunfire is heard coming from the path of the van, the footage exhibits.
Crespo shoots greater than 20 rounds on the automobile, earlier than taking cowl behind a silver Chevy pickup truck parked subsequent to Pineda’s van, the footage exhibits. Sound coming from the van signifies Pineda fired not less than 10 photographs at Crespo.
Crespo modifications magazines and fires three extra rounds earlier than radioing his colleagues, “Shots fired,” the video exhibits. He then fires twice on the van, in keeping with the footage, telling different deputies arriving on the scene over the radio, “Watch for crossfire, he’s armed!”
The sergeant advised the opposite deputies that Pineda was nonetheless within the van, however they discovered him mendacity exterior the automobile with a handgun subsequent to him, the footage exhibits. The deputies then cuffed him.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics took Pineda to the hospital, the place he died. The sheriff’s workplace stated he has an extended felony report.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the capturing. Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz stated in a press release Monday that she launched the footage to stick to her division’s dedication to “upholding the principles of transparency, accountability, and public trust.”
“While a thorough investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is still underway, releasing this footage ensures everyone sees the sequence of events as they unfolded,” Cordero-Stutz stated.
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