Illegal Protest

H/T to Immigration Watchdog for complete coverage of this travesty in Phoenix, complete with phone numbers for the Mayor of Phoenix and the Governor of Arizona who have let this happen in their state.

Rest in peace Nick Erfle of Phoenix.. may you have not died in vain.

The two officers stopped the three, a man and two women, on Pinchot to talk to them and asked for identification. Police rarely issue citations for jaywalking, telling people instead to just cross at a safer spot in the future, Tranter said.

The man didn’t have identification but gave officers a name and birth date that Erfle ran through a police computer. That search turned up a misdemeanor warrant for shoplifting out of Tucson.

Police would later find out the man hadn’t given his real name. Martinez likely used an alias because he was trying to hide the fact he had felony warrants for aggravated assault and false imprisonment, stemming from a 2006 domestic-violence incident.

But the officers didn’t know any of that and tried to arrest him on the misdemeanor warrant.

That’s when Martinez shoved Erfle to the ground, pulled a gun and fired multiple times. Police said it all happened in a matter of seconds.

“There was three shots, and there was a pause, and then one more shot,” said Bob Newnum, who lives nearby.

Read more at Immigration Watchdog here