Phoenix Cops Shoot An Armed Man In His Car, Of Course BLM Is In An Uproar

PHOENIX — Several dozen protesters marched on the Phoenix Police Department Sunday night, demanding body camera footage be released of the fatal officer-involved Fourth of July shooting of a man, who was sitting in a parked car, multiple media outlets reported.

Activists and Phoenix City Councilman Carlos Garcia identified the man who was killed as James Porter Garcia, 28, which police confirmed on Monday, The New York Times reported.

Officers are said to have told the man sitting in the vehicle that they were investigating an aggravated assault, The Hill reported.

“As the conversation continued, officers instructed the man to get out of the vehicle. At this point, he refused, instead rolling up his window and arming himself with a handgun,” the department stated, adding that the man began to later “lift his weapon.”

The department said that one officer broke a passenger window to attempt to distract the man after seeing him point his weapon at a fellow officer. As that happened, two other officers fired into the vehicle, the department stated.