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San Jose: death today after being tasered
emailed received today from Richard Konda:
I just received a fax from Channel 7 regarding the death of a man today after he was tasered. The San JOse POLICE DEPT PRESS RELEASE reads as follows: ...... He refused to comply with orders from the officers ans was subsequently Tased, sprayed with pepper spray and struck with a baton. As officers were preparing to deploy the WRAP device, the suspect went unconsicios. Officer began CPR and called for emergency medical personnel. The suspect was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where he later died.
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I just received a fax from Channel 7 regarding the death of a man today after he was tasered. The San JOse POLICE DEPT PRESS RELEASE reads as follows: ...... He refused to comply with orders from the officers ans was subsequently Tased, sprayed with pepper spray and struck with a baton. As officers were preparing to deploy the WRAP device, the suspect went unconsicios. Officer began CPR and called for emergency medical personnel. The suspect was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where he later died.
There is more to the press release.
Hi:
Here is the rest of the press release from sjpd; On Monday, Aug. 1, 2005 at 4:08 am, San Jose Police responded to the AMPM mini market at 5498 Monterey Road, at Blossom Hill Road. Clerks there reported two men were fighting inside the store. Officers arrived and separated the two men. During the course of their investigation, the suspect fled on foot. Officer captured him after a foot chase and a struggle ensued. He refused to comply with orders from the officers and was ..... see other email from me.....
Information obtained from the victim indicates that the suspect first went to the victim's condo and kicked in his front door. The victim does not know the suspect. The victim then chased the suspect from the scene over the AMPM minimarket where the two men fought one another. The suspect fougth with the victim who stands 6-3 and weighs 350 pounds. By all accounts, this was a prolonged and violent struggle between the two men, both inside and outside the store.
Anyone with information on this case is urged to call Det. Sgt Rob Millard or Tim Porter of the SJPD - 277-5283. Persons wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Stopper at 408-957-stop.
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Here is the rest of the press release from sjpd; On Monday, Aug. 1, 2005 at 4:08 am, San Jose Police responded to the AMPM mini market at 5498 Monterey Road, at Blossom Hill Road. Clerks there reported two men were fighting inside the store. Officers arrived and separated the two men. During the course of their investigation, the suspect fled on foot. Officer captured him after a foot chase and a struggle ensued. He refused to comply with orders from the officers and was ..... see other email from me.....
Information obtained from the victim indicates that the suspect first went to the victim's condo and kicked in his front door. The victim does not know the suspect. The victim then chased the suspect from the scene over the AMPM minimarket where the two men fought one another. The suspect fougth with the victim who stands 6-3 and weighs 350 pounds. By all accounts, this was a prolonged and violent struggle between the two men, both inside and outside the store.
Anyone with information on this case is urged to call Det. Sgt Rob Millard or Tim Porter of the SJPD - 277-5283. Persons wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Stopper at 408-957-stop.
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Fatal CHP Officer-Involved Shooting In Fremont
Aug. 1 (BCN) — A possibly fatal shooting involving a California Highway Patrol officer has closed a lane of Interstate Highway 880 in Fremont this afternoon, according to CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
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The officer involved in the shooting is "OK," however another person may have been fatally injured, Ziese said.
The incident occurred near Mowry Avenue around 4 p.m.
The No. 4 lane of traffic was closed at that time, and is expected to re-open around 7 p.m., according to the CHP.
The CHP is advising motorists to use Interstate Highway 680 as an alternate, as highway 880 is backed up for about 10 miles.
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Fatal CHP Officer-Involved Shooting In Fremont
Aug. 1 (BCN) — A possibly fatal shooting involving a California Highway Patrol officer has closed a lane of Interstate Highway 880 in Fremont this afternoon, according to CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
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The officer involved in the shooting is "OK," however another person may have been fatally injured, Ziese said.
The incident occurred near Mowry Avenue around 4 p.m.
The No. 4 lane of traffic was closed at that time, and is expected to re-open around 7 p.m., according to the CHP.
The CHP is advising motorists to use Interstate Highway 680 as an alternate, as highway 880 is backed up for about 10 miles.
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SAN LEANDRO
Thousands mourn slain police officer
He is eulogized as a model of integrity and dedication to law enforcement
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Nels "Dan" Niemi's daughter Gabrielle, 6, places a rose a... Officer Nels "Dan" Niemi's wife, Dionne, holds onto her h... The motorcade with officer Nels "Dan" Niemi's casket arri... Officer Dan Niemi had been a salesman and a software deve...
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San Leandro Police Officer Nels "Dan" Niemi once wrote in his journal that chasing bad guys and taking them to jail was "fun to be sure, but that's not 'it.' ''
"We can't save the world -- in fact I doubt the world even wants saving," Niemi wrote. "If, however, just once in a while we can make someone a little safer, leave someone just a little better off than we found them, doesn't that count for something?"
Thousands of grieving friends, family and fellow officers seemed to agree Monday as they eulogized Niemi, 42, who was shot and killed last week by a man who police say feared going back to jail because he was carrying guns and drugs when the officer stopped him. Niemi was the first San Leandro officer killed in the line of duty in nearly 40 years.
Their emergency lights flashing, a cortege of police cars escorted the hearse with Niemi's body from Guerrero Mortuary Chapel in San Leandro to Neighborhood Church in Castro Valley.
A standing-room-only crowd filled the church, where 200 motorcycles from throughout Northern California passed under two fire trucks with their ladders extended, an American flag hanging from above.
As police bagpipers played "Amazing Grace," hundreds of officers, their badges covered in black bands, saluted as pallbearers brought the officer's flag-draped coffin into the church.
Niemi left behind his wife, Dionne, 36; daughter, Gabrielle, 6; stepson, Josh Hewitt, 15, all of Milpitas, and parents Rudie and Mildred Niemi of Alamo.
A San Leandro police honor guard approached Niemi's coffin and folded the American flag. Police Chief Joe Kitchen presented it to Dionne Niemi, who also received a state flag from California Highway Patrol Deputy Commissioner Joseph Farrow.
The slain officer, who long harbored an interest in law enforcement, taught defensive shooting classes before leaving his job in the computer industry to become an officer in 2002.
"He was living and breathing his dream," said Kitchen.
San Leandro Mayor Shelia Young said Niemi "epitomized the qualities of integrity, professionalism and dedication that gave the San Leandro Police Department its outstanding reputation throughout the law enforcement community."
In his eulogy, San Jose Police Chaplain Dave Bridgen, a family friend, called Niemi's slaying a cold-blooded murder.
Police said the suspect, Irving Alexander Ramirez, 23, of Newark, shot Niemi seven times with a 10mm semiautomatic handgun after the officer ran Ramirez's name on the radio while checking out a noise complaint in a neighborhood on Doolittle Drive.
Ramirez, who was on probation, was afraid that he'd be sent back to jail because of his contraband, authorities said. He has been charged with murder with three special circumstances: killing a police officer, lying in wait and killing to avoid arrest. He is to appear today at the Hayward Hall of Justice.
Jim Niemi, 38, of El Dorado Hills (El Dorado County), who served as a pallbearer, said his brother was very opinionated and could argue any issue and win every time, which likely helped him while patrolling the streets.
"He knew how to deal with a situation, to read a situation, to defuse a situation," Jim Niemi said.
And that was in evidence even when the older Niemi was just 4 years old. While waiting at a doctor's office, Niemi saw a boy with a Batman doll. Enamored of the superhero, Niemi, according to his brother, went to the boy's mother and asked her, "You think I can take Batman for a minute, and if he cries I'll give him right back?"
Niemi, who was born in Guam, enjoyed flying, playing chess and watching scary movies, Bridgen said in his eulogy. Niemi also wrote poems and short stories.
His brother played baseball and enjoyed other sports, but Dan Niemi, as everybody called him, preferred playing with his "little green Army men" and building model planes and cars, the chaplain said.
Niemi graduated from De La Salle High School in Concord -- during that time he was a Walnut Creek police explorer -- and attended Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill and Sacramento State University.
In 1994, he walked into a San Jose sporting goods store and met his future wife. "She fluttered her eyes and checked him out," Bridgen said.
After graduating from the Alameda County sheriff's police academy, Niemi became a San Leandro police officer in August 2002. He used his skills from his earlier career as part of the department's computer forensics unit, analyzing computers for evidence of crimes.
When Monday's memorial ended, five police helicopters flew overhead before one peeled off in a "missing-man" formation in honor of Niemi.
In a 35-page entry in his journal, Niemi wrote about how he felt upon becoming an officer. "My odyssey began well over a year ago, or maybe it was over 20 years ago," he wrote. "It's so hard to tell; today was an ending and a beginning all at once."
Slain officer's memorial fund
Contributions can be made to the Niemi Family Fund, c/o San Leandro Police Officers Association, 901 East 14th St., San Leandro, CA. 94577.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee [at] sfchronicle.com.
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Thousands mourn slain police officer
He is eulogized as a model of integrity and dedication to law enforcement
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Nels "Dan" Niemi's daughter Gabrielle, 6, places a rose a... Officer Nels "Dan" Niemi's wife, Dionne, holds onto her h... The motorcade with officer Nels "Dan" Niemi's casket arri... Officer Dan Niemi had been a salesman and a software deve...
* Printable Version
* Email This Article
San Leandro Police Officer Nels "Dan" Niemi once wrote in his journal that chasing bad guys and taking them to jail was "fun to be sure, but that's not 'it.' ''
"We can't save the world -- in fact I doubt the world even wants saving," Niemi wrote. "If, however, just once in a while we can make someone a little safer, leave someone just a little better off than we found them, doesn't that count for something?"
Thousands of grieving friends, family and fellow officers seemed to agree Monday as they eulogized Niemi, 42, who was shot and killed last week by a man who police say feared going back to jail because he was carrying guns and drugs when the officer stopped him. Niemi was the first San Leandro officer killed in the line of duty in nearly 40 years.
Their emergency lights flashing, a cortege of police cars escorted the hearse with Niemi's body from Guerrero Mortuary Chapel in San Leandro to Neighborhood Church in Castro Valley.
A standing-room-only crowd filled the church, where 200 motorcycles from throughout Northern California passed under two fire trucks with their ladders extended, an American flag hanging from above.
As police bagpipers played "Amazing Grace," hundreds of officers, their badges covered in black bands, saluted as pallbearers brought the officer's flag-draped coffin into the church.
Niemi left behind his wife, Dionne, 36; daughter, Gabrielle, 6; stepson, Josh Hewitt, 15, all of Milpitas, and parents Rudie and Mildred Niemi of Alamo.
A San Leandro police honor guard approached Niemi's coffin and folded the American flag. Police Chief Joe Kitchen presented it to Dionne Niemi, who also received a state flag from California Highway Patrol Deputy Commissioner Joseph Farrow.
The slain officer, who long harbored an interest in law enforcement, taught defensive shooting classes before leaving his job in the computer industry to become an officer in 2002.
"He was living and breathing his dream," said Kitchen.
San Leandro Mayor Shelia Young said Niemi "epitomized the qualities of integrity, professionalism and dedication that gave the San Leandro Police Department its outstanding reputation throughout the law enforcement community."
In his eulogy, San Jose Police Chaplain Dave Bridgen, a family friend, called Niemi's slaying a cold-blooded murder.
Police said the suspect, Irving Alexander Ramirez, 23, of Newark, shot Niemi seven times with a 10mm semiautomatic handgun after the officer ran Ramirez's name on the radio while checking out a noise complaint in a neighborhood on Doolittle Drive.
Ramirez, who was on probation, was afraid that he'd be sent back to jail because of his contraband, authorities said. He has been charged with murder with three special circumstances: killing a police officer, lying in wait and killing to avoid arrest. He is to appear today at the Hayward Hall of Justice.
Jim Niemi, 38, of El Dorado Hills (El Dorado County), who served as a pallbearer, said his brother was very opinionated and could argue any issue and win every time, which likely helped him while patrolling the streets.
"He knew how to deal with a situation, to read a situation, to defuse a situation," Jim Niemi said.
And that was in evidence even when the older Niemi was just 4 years old. While waiting at a doctor's office, Niemi saw a boy with a Batman doll. Enamored of the superhero, Niemi, according to his brother, went to the boy's mother and asked her, "You think I can take Batman for a minute, and if he cries I'll give him right back?"
Niemi, who was born in Guam, enjoyed flying, playing chess and watching scary movies, Bridgen said in his eulogy. Niemi also wrote poems and short stories.
His brother played baseball and enjoyed other sports, but Dan Niemi, as everybody called him, preferred playing with his "little green Army men" and building model planes and cars, the chaplain said.
Niemi graduated from De La Salle High School in Concord -- during that time he was a Walnut Creek police explorer -- and attended Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill and Sacramento State University.
In 1994, he walked into a San Jose sporting goods store and met his future wife. "She fluttered her eyes and checked him out," Bridgen said.
After graduating from the Alameda County sheriff's police academy, Niemi became a San Leandro police officer in August 2002. He used his skills from his earlier career as part of the department's computer forensics unit, analyzing computers for evidence of crimes.
When Monday's memorial ended, five police helicopters flew overhead before one peeled off in a "missing-man" formation in honor of Niemi.
In a 35-page entry in his journal, Niemi wrote about how he felt upon becoming an officer. "My odyssey began well over a year ago, or maybe it was over 20 years ago," he wrote. "It's so hard to tell; today was an ending and a beginning all at once."
Slain officer's memorial fund
Contributions can be made to the Niemi Family Fund, c/o San Leandro Police Officers Association, 901 East 14th St., San Leandro, CA. 94577.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee [at] sfchronicle.com.
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I-880 lane reopens in Fremont after shooting involving CHP officer
Bay City News
Monday, August 1, 2005
Fremont -- The No. 4 lane of southbound Interstate Highway 880 in Fremont has been re-opened following a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred there earlier this evening, the California Highway Patrol reports.
The incident near Mowry Avenue occurred around 4 p.m.
A California Highway Patrol officer involved in the shooting was not injured, however another party involved in the shooting suffered fatal injuries, according to CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
The No. 4 lane was re-opened around 7:40 p.m., the CHP reports.
Copyright 2005 by Bay City News, Inc.
Bay City News
Monday, August 1, 2005
Fremont -- The No. 4 lane of southbound Interstate Highway 880 in Fremont has been re-opened following a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred there earlier this evening, the California Highway Patrol reports.
The incident near Mowry Avenue occurred around 4 p.m.
A California Highway Patrol officer involved in the shooting was not injured, however another party involved in the shooting suffered fatal injuries, according to CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
The No. 4 lane was re-opened around 7:40 p.m., the CHP reports.
Copyright 2005 by Bay City News, Inc.
For more information:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...
Man dies after fight, lengthy struggle with police
Monday, August 1, 2005
(08-01) 19:52 PDT San Jose, Calif. (AP) --
A man who fought with police despite being pepper-sprayed and shot twice with a stun gun abruptly collapsed and later died in the hospital, authorities said Monday.
The 33-year-old suspect was not immediately identified. The two officers involved in the struggle were placed on leave pending a police investigation, police Sgt. Nick Muyo said.
Police were called to a gas station market at 4:08 a.m. Monday and told the suspect was fighting another man. When police separated the men and began interviewing them, the suspect fled.
Two officers chased the man and found him trying to climb a fence. They shot him once with the Taser, but he kept struggling.
Police then pepper sprayed the man, shot him again with the stun gun and struck his shin with a baton but he continued to fight. When police began to tie his arms and legs with nylon restraints the suspect collapsed and stopped breathing, Muyo said.
The officers performed CPR and alerted an ambulance. The man was rushed to the hospital, where he died, Muyo said. Police are investigating whether, drugs, alcohol or a medical condition contributed to the death.
Police believe the suspect broke into the condominium of the other man involved in the fight, Muyo said.
Monday, August 1, 2005
(08-01) 19:52 PDT San Jose, Calif. (AP) --
A man who fought with police despite being pepper-sprayed and shot twice with a stun gun abruptly collapsed and later died in the hospital, authorities said Monday.
The 33-year-old suspect was not immediately identified. The two officers involved in the struggle were placed on leave pending a police investigation, police Sgt. Nick Muyo said.
Police were called to a gas station market at 4:08 a.m. Monday and told the suspect was fighting another man. When police separated the men and began interviewing them, the suspect fled.
Two officers chased the man and found him trying to climb a fence. They shot him once with the Taser, but he kept struggling.
Police then pepper sprayed the man, shot him again with the stun gun and struck his shin with a baton but he continued to fight. When police began to tie his arms and legs with nylon restraints the suspect collapsed and stopped breathing, Muyo said.
The officers performed CPR and alerted an ambulance. The man was rushed to the hospital, where he died, Muyo said. Police are investigating whether, drugs, alcohol or a medical condition contributed to the death.
Police believe the suspect broke into the condominium of the other man involved in the fight, Muyo said.
For more information:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n...
> Fremont -- The No. 4 lane of southbound Interstate
> Highway 880 in Fremont has been re-opened
First priority: the good news is that your car can fly the freeway again!
> following a
> fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred there
> earlier this evening, the California Highway Patrol
> reports.
Why was the death of the San Leandro policeman reported as a man "shot and killed" and not an "officer-involved shooting"? If you or I shoot and kill someone will it be reported as a "citizen-involved shooting" - or that we "shot and killed" someone?
> The incident near Mowry Avenue occurred around 4 p.m.
Now it's not even a shooting, just an "incident"...
> A California Highway Patrol officer involved in the
> shooting was not injured,
Second priority: The officer, who was somehow "involved" in the shooting (we're not told how) was not hurt, thank goodness.
> however another party involved in the shooting suffered
> fatal injuries, according to CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
But, incidentally, a "party" (man, woman, fish?) also somehow "involved in the shooting" (again we're not told how) mysteriously "suffered fatal injuries" (from what - shooting, freeway accident, wasp bite?).
Oh, by the way, someone is dead.
> The No. 4 lane was re-opened around 7:40 p.m., the CHP
> reports.
The good news is that your car can fly the freeway again!
> Highway 880 in Fremont has been re-opened
First priority: the good news is that your car can fly the freeway again!
> following a
> fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred there
> earlier this evening, the California Highway Patrol
> reports.
Why was the death of the San Leandro policeman reported as a man "shot and killed" and not an "officer-involved shooting"? If you or I shoot and kill someone will it be reported as a "citizen-involved shooting" - or that we "shot and killed" someone?
> The incident near Mowry Avenue occurred around 4 p.m.
Now it's not even a shooting, just an "incident"...
> A California Highway Patrol officer involved in the
> shooting was not injured,
Second priority: The officer, who was somehow "involved" in the shooting (we're not told how) was not hurt, thank goodness.
> however another party involved in the shooting suffered
> fatal injuries, according to CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese.
But, incidentally, a "party" (man, woman, fish?) also somehow "involved in the shooting" (again we're not told how) mysteriously "suffered fatal injuries" (from what - shooting, freeway accident, wasp bite?).
Oh, by the way, someone is dead.
> The No. 4 lane was re-opened around 7:40 p.m., the CHP
> reports.
The good news is that your car can fly the freeway again!
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