Just posting this here cause wow

o start my story a couple weeks ago I was at a public beach with my daughter. It’s a small town. I brought four beers and was sitting in my lawn chair drinking them. some Karen told me you can’t drink alcohol here. I just kinda loled at her then she called the cops on me told them I was drinking at a public beach and drunk in public. the local police chief shows up and says you have to take a breathalyzer to make sure you’re not drunk in public. And it’s illegal to drink beer at this public beach I kinda loled at him and said sure i’ll take your breathalyzer. I failed by a little bit, but I was sitting in a lawn chair and was planning on being there for a couple more hours. He said I can give you a DUI right now and I told him no you can’t. I don’t even have my keys on me and I’m sitting in a lawn chair at the beach. he left but apparently that pissed him off he went and sat at the end of the road for the next two hours and followed me home. And he’s been on a vendetta against me since I never met the guy before that day. He showed up at my work a couple days later Said he just wanted to make sure I wasn’t drinking I saw him outside earlier and he looks drunk. I wasn’t there. This is what my boss told me. He showed up again today while I was there and said your eyes are red. You need to take a breathalyzer. I work I told him nope, Then he called the state patrol and the DNR conservation officer. (I work for the DNR) he basically threatened me and told me you’re gonna lose your job if you don’t comply. I told him I’ll be going back to my job now and then walked away. I did get a text from my boss an hour later saying don’t come into work this week until we figure this out. So I might be fired

I have no criminal record at all, but I apparently pissed off the local cops. Do I hire a lawyer on Monday?

I’ve already done it BUT if hypothetically you went up to a group of cops and handen them small packets of ketchup and they said ”we have to have something to eat it with, like bread” incredibly rudely. So you hypothetically found free bread, put as much ketchup as you could on it and accidentally threw it at an officer, how bad would that be? Cuz like it’s a piece of bread, can’t count as an assault? Or maybe it does idk help

Are you aged 18+, from a Black community in the Uk and had a negative experience with the police, would you be willing to talk to me about it in an online interview for ongoing research. Thanks

So:

I got pulled over by a police officer in Columbus, MS for “not wearing a seatbelt”. Here’s what really happened, since the assistant chief wants to protect said cop, even though I’ve made my case to him as to why it was a fake ticket.

Said officer tailgated me for a minute or two, he was close to my vehicle that if I had to sudden brake for AMYTHING, we get into an accident within one to two seconds. Here’s what I know for a fact he saw when he ran my plate while his car was trying to intimately get to know mine. He saw that my license plate was involved in a speeding ticket that is being fought by my wife who, a few months earlier, she got pulled over by a police officer for “speeding” when he never even clocked her with his radar gun. She submitted a complaint about said officer to the police department. This complaint was ALSO after said officer was outed as a sexual predator, as that was why he was fired from a different PD, and forced to resign from another. The officer that pulled me over recognized this, and also recognized that I requested for the mayor to remove the unconstitutional flock cameras around Columbus. I know with 100% certainty that the officer who pulled me over is lying. I absolutely WAS wearing my seatbelt. Body cam wasn’t even turned on until I was swearing up and down to said officer that I was wearing my seatbelt, which was, of course, after he had already pulled me over, so the body cam footage is no help whatsoever. I play trading card games for hobbies. I’m not wasting $88 for a violation I did not commit when that money could go towards something that ACTUALLY happens in me buying said TCGs.

Columbus PD, do better. Assistant chief, do better. My taxes help pay the salaries of those in charge, and the only thing this experience has exposed is how much of a waste of my taxpayer money these police officers are. This officer blatantly targeted me because of something else my license plate was associated with, despite having zero cause to pull me over. CPD, you chose this fight, and I intend for liberty to win.

JIMMY EUGENE LOPEZ — FULL ACCOUNTABILITY ANALYSIS

July 4, 2024 | Hemet, CA | Justice Warriors Collective Research File

WHO JIMMY WAS

Jimmy was raised by his grandparents. He had two daughters, ages 4 and 6, who lived with their mother. His main vice was alcohol, which he used to cope with depression, mainly stemming from a difficult co-parenting situation and not being able to see his children. He was not involved in any gang or criminal activity. His family characterized him as getting his life together, working a consistent job, and trying to grow as a person.

He was 26 years old. He was a father. He was someone's whole world.

THE TIMELINE — WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED

12:08 AM — Jimmy enters the After 5 Lounge aka Rob Kelly’s After Five Cocktail Lounge, at 133 N. Harvard Street, Hemet (Reportedly Owned By Simon Chu at the time of the incident, now listed as H&H or Heaven & Hell Bar).

According to the bartender, he drinks approximately one third of a beer and two shots of liquor over the course of about an hour. Surveillance shows other patrons physically supporting him to keep him upright. He was eventually helped out of the bar by a woman patron and several others though some witnesses claim that the security guard, Zackary Castro, actually threw him out of the bar, and then followed him, before returning back to the bar where the bartender, Jacqueline “Jackie” Dernberger called 911.

1:39 AM — W-1, the bartender, Jackie, calls 911 and tells HPD that a male customer was "super intoxicated" and she was "trying to get him an Uber." She said the male customer "dropped his phone and a gun fell out of his pocket." W-2, another bar employee, described him as a Hispanic male in a black sweater and gray pants, heading eastbound on Florida Avenue.

1:42 AM — HPD dispatch radios: "The male dropped his phone, and the gun fell out of his pocket. The male picked it up and put it back in his pants."

1:48:33 AM — Officers Bishop and McWilliams locate Jimmy lying on the sidewalk, propped against a brick wall in front of Balloons and Things, 208 East Florida Avenue. They park 12 feet away and draw their weapons though Jimmy was asleep, incapacitated, and intoxicated on the sidewalk waiting for his sister to pick him up.

1:48:47–1:48:50 AM — Officers call out to Jimmy. He sits upright. He is ordered to put his hands up. He complies immediately, raising his hands and placing them behind his head. Additional officers begin arriving simultaneously.

1:49:06 AM — Officer Lizardi arrives, though he was NOT dispatched to this call, and announces: "I see something black by his right buttocks. I can't tell what it is, but there's something right…. looks like a pistol grip."

1:49:23 AM — Jimmy reaches down with his LEFT hand and picks up a vape pen from the ground next to him, inhales from it, exhales, and places it back down.

1:49:36 AM — Officer Coley fires the 40mm less-lethal launcher, he misses. Jimmy shifts his weight and reaches toward his right side.

1:49:37 AM — Jimmy raises what officers claim appears to be a black handgun with his right hand.

1:49:38 AM — Eight officers, Alan Lizardi, Kenneth McWilliams, Maxwell Guerrero, Joshua Bishop, Christian Coley, Oswaldo Rodriguez, Antonio Cervantes, and Dominic Delbono, fire a total of 69 rounds. Jimmy is struck multiple times and fatally wounded.

1:57 AM — Hemet Fire Department arrives approximately four minutes after the shooting. Paramedics find Jimmy with no pulse, not breathing, unresponsive, and with multiple visible gunshot wounds to vital organ areas. He is pronounced dead at the scene.

Post-scene — The object is confirmed to be an airsoft gun, incapable of firing a live round.

THE AUTOPSY — WHAT THEY DID TO HIM

Jimmy's autopsy, conducted July 9, 2024, found: multiple gunshot entrance, exit, and re-entry type wounds across all body surfaces. Injuries to the brain, heart, both lungs, liver, and left kidney. Fractures to his right humerus, right fibula, and left tibia and fibula. Ten projectiles and multiple fragments were retrieved from his body.

His blood alcohol content was .43%, more than five times the legal limit to drive.

A .43 BAC is near medically incapacitating. He was not a calculating threat. He was a young man who could barely stand. Other videos of him stumbling into a bush provided by a neighboring business to the bar show this clearly.

THE ROUND COUNT — OFFICER BY OFFICER

Based on ballistics analysis:

- Officer Lizardi fired 18 rounds, his entire magazine capacity, then reloaded and chambered one more.

- Officer Bishop fired 10 rounds.

- Officer Coley fired 4 lethal rounds (plus the one failed 40mm less-lethal shot).

- Officer Guerrero fired 8 rounds.

- Officer McWilliams fired 8 rounds.

- Officer Delbono fired 7 rounds.

- Officer Cervantes fired 6 rounds, and conducted a tactical reload mid-shooting, replacing a partially used magazine with a full one.

- Officer Rodriguez fired 8 rounds.

66 shell casings were recovered from the scene. The variance from 69 fired is attributed to two police vehicles being driven away immediately after the shooting, potentially carrying spent casings.

LIZARDI 'S VEHICLE WAS PROCESSED OFF-SITE; one casing was found on his windshield.

WHAT WENT WRONG — THE FULL ACCOUNTABILITY BREAKDOWN

1. THE BAR STAFF — AFTER 5 LOUNGE

What they did: Two employees, Zackary Castro (Security Guard/Barback) and Jacqueline “Jackie” Dernberger, called 911 and reported that they witnessed a gun fall from Jimmy's pocket after being served at their establishment (After 5 Lounge) and then leaving with a BAC of .43.

Jackie and Zack claim that Zack followed Jimmy after he left the bar to ensure his safety and that he wasn't driving, but witnesses that were at the bar that night claim that Zack actually threw Jimmy out of the bar and then pursued him before he reportedly saw the airsoft gun fall out of Jimmy’s pocket along with his phone, and decided to return to the bar. They did not call 911 before Jimmy left the bar, only after he was already gone.

The 911 call framing matters enormously. Saying a gun "fell out of his pocket" created an armed-and-dangerous call. The dispatcher relayed that framing directly to officers. That framing killed Jimmy Lopez.

1. DISPATCH — Hemet Police Department

What they did: Dispatched the call as a man with a gun, including the detail that the suspect "dropped his phone, and the gun fell out of his pocket. The male picked it up and put it back in his pants.

What they failed to do:

- Dispatchers had the responsibility to fully convey the context: this was a VISIBLY INTOXICATED man, barely able to stand, who the callers were trying to get an Uber for. The intoxication detail was buried or minimized in the dispatch relay.

- No information was dispatched advising officers that the subject might be incapacitated, which should have triggered mental health co-response protocols or at minimum a slower, more deliberate approach.

- California's CAHOOTS-style co-response models exist precisely for situations like this: drunk person with potential weapon, no active crime, no victim.

- The dispatch framing set the stage for officers to arrive in threat-posture rather than welfare-check posture.

1. OFFICER ALAN LIZARDI — PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITY TARGET

Officer Lizardi was NOT dispatched to this call. He responded on his own initiative after hearing the broadcast while patrolling on the west side of Hemet near "Circle K west." He was hired by HPD on June 26, 2023, barely a year before this shooting. Before HPD, he had served in the Marines, including multiple combat deployments involving direct combat.

It's worth noting that this event took place on the fourth of July which is a political holiday that is especially triggering for combat veterans.

This is critical. Lizardi is the officer who:

- Self-responded without being dispatched

- Announced the "pistol grip" sighting that escalated the entire encounter

- Fired his entire 18-round magazine and then reloaded, firing 18 total rounds, the most of any officer on scene

Questions that must be asked:

- What is the HPD policy on officers self-responding to armed suspect calls when not dispatched?

- Was Lizardi trained on de-escalation with visibly intoxicated subjects, or did his combat background shape his response posture?

- Who authorized him to take a front-facing position 15 feet from a suspect identified as likely armed?

- Why did the officer who fired the most rounds also happen to be the newest hire with combat PTSD risk factors that have never been publicly examined?

1. THE VEHICLE POSITIONING — A STRUCTURAL FAILURE

The DOJ itself considered as a potential recommendation whether officers should have positioned their vehicles differently to avoid the risk of cross-fire.

They identified it. They flagged it. And then they did nothing with it.

Five patrol vehicles surrounded a single man on a sidewalk. Jimmy was illuminated by the patrol vehicles' headlights and spotlights.

Officers were positioned on multiple sides. That is a crossfire situation and a tactical failure.

The DOJ noted this concern and then explicitly declined to issue any recommendation about it. That is not a clearance, that is a failure to act on their own findings.

1. FAILURE TO DE-ESCALATE

The encounter from first contact to gunfire lasted less than 60 seconds.

From 1:48:47 AM when they first called out to Jimmy, to 1:49:38 AM when shooting began, that is 51 seconds.

In those 51 seconds:

- No attempt was made to retreat to a safer distance and wait

- No attempt to use verbal de-escalation beyond commands

- The 40mm less-lethal launcher was fired ONCE and MISSED before officers immediately switched to lethal weapons

- No time was given for Jimmy, a man with a .43 BAC, to process the commands being screamed at him from multiple directions while spotlights and police lights were enveloping him.

California POST training mandates crisis intervention and de-escalation before use of force. The standard is not just "did you feel threatened", it is whether a reasonable officer EXHAUSTED alternatives. 51 seconds with a visibly incapacitated man does not meet that threshold.

1. FAILURE TO RENDER AID

Officers did not administer medical treatment to Jimmy because they said he "exhibited obvious signs of death." Hemet Fire did not arrive until approximately four minutes later. Jimmy was not pronounced dead until 1:57 AM.

He was shot at 1:49:38. He was pronounced dead at 1:57. That is over seven minutes with no medical aid from the people who shot him.

Officers are trained in tactical emergency casualty care (TECC). At minimum, an officer could have applied pressure to wounds. The "obvious signs of death" determination was made by the same officers who had just fired 69 rounds at a man. That is not a medical assessment. That is officers protecting themselves from witnessing what they had done.

1. OFFICER McWILLIAMS' BODY CAMERA WAS OFF

Except for Officer McWilliams, all other involved officers had their BWCs activated. McWilliams' camera was not recording because he had already docked it to upload footage at the end of his shift.

McWilliams fired 8 rounds. He is one of the first two officers on scene. His BWC was off. This is not a technicality, this is missing evidence in a death investigation. HPD policy failed to ensure body cameras were active before officers responded to an "active armed suspect call."

1. THE DOJ CLEARANCE — AND WHY IT'S NOT THE END

The DOJ found "insufficient evidence to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the officers involved acted without the intent to defend themselves and others from what they reasonably believed to be the imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury." Therefore, they declined criminal prosecution.

That standard is nearly impossible to meet under current law. "Reasonable belief" gives officers enormous latitude. The DOJ's clearance means no criminal charges, it does not mean the conduct was correct. It does not mean no civil liability. It does not mean no policy failure. It means the DA bar wasn't cleared.

The civil lawsuit filed by Jimmy's family against the City of Hemet remains pending. The DOJ findings do not necessarily determine the outcome of that suit.

WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED

1. Bar staff should have kept Jimmy inside, continued the Uber attempt, and called emergency personnel BEFORE he left the bar at the very least.

2. Dispatch should have forwarded the full context, extreme intoxication, welfare concern, unclear if the object was a real firearm, and flagged this for a mental health or welfare response alongside officers.

3. Officers should have arrived in welfare posture, not armed-and-dangerous posture. A man passed out on a sidewalk is not an active threat.

4. Lizardi should not have self-responded to a call he wasn't dispatched to. His presence added an additional trigger-finger and an unnecessary close-range confrontation.

5. The encounter should have taken longer than 51 seconds. Back up. Create distance. Give him time to comply. He was literally too drunk to stand, he was not a tactical threat at 15 feet.

6. The 40mm less-lethal should have been the line. One miss doesn't mean pivoting to 69 lethal rounds.

7. Medical aid should have been rendered immediately.

8. All body cameras should have been active before any officer approached.

JUSTICE FOR JIMMY EUGENE LOPEZ!

HOLD ALL INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH ACCOUNTABLE!

HOLD Hemet Police Department ACCOUNTABLE!!!