Off-Duty Officer Fires Weapon After Being Attacked By Youths

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By Kody Fairfield

An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was caught on cellphone video firing his gun after youths attacked him for holding the arms of a 13-year-old boy during a dispute outside the officer’s home in nearby Anaheim, reports The Blaze.

The video of the incident, which took place last week, shows the officer, wearing sunglasses and a blue plaid shirt, holding the boy’s arms as the boy’s group of friends approach him. The group can be heard shouting, “let him go!” and attempt to free the youth.

The officer, identified as Kevin Ferguson by the LA Times, is heard saying the boy shouldn’t have threatened to shoot him — but the boy replies that he said “sue.”

Shortly after, one of the companions of the boy slams into the officer, pushing him through near by bushes, while another steps up to throw punches. That’s when another youth moves over the hedges and approaches the officer with his hand in his back pocket.

The officer is then seen pulling his gun from his waistband and firing it while continuing to hold on to the boy. No one was hit, but the gunfire scattered the converging kids, reports The Blaze.

he boy the officer was holding was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats and battery, and a 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of assault and battery, Anaheim police told KTLA-TV. Both teens were released to their parents.

he officer in question was placed on administrative leave, and both the LAPD and Anaheim police are investigating the incident, said The Blaze.

Following the incident, The Blaze mentioned that protests were held in the city of Anaheim showing people’s displeasure with the incident. The protests lead to 24 arrests on misdemeanor charges, including failure to disperse, resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer, KTLA-TV reported in a separate story.

Worse yet, Protesters also tried getting into the home of the officer on the video, breaking its windows as well as car windows, the station said, adding that protesters also broke an Anaheim police car’s windows, spray-painted a garage door and broke a window at a neighboring house.

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KTLA reports that the entire incident “began over ongoing issues with juveniles walking across the officer’s property.”

The boy’s mother reportedly told KTLA that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office had rejected charges, but that she “still fear[s] for our lives, for him living right down the street from us,” she said tearfully. “Him being an officer.”

KTLA did ask for verification that the charges would not be pursued. A circumstance which the office would not confirm.

After being released, the boy held by the officer, told a KTLA reporter that the confrontation started after a girl walked across the officer’s lawn and the officer made a disparaging remark to her.

“I said, ‘Hey, that’s not how you treat a lady,’” the boy told the reporter, according to The Blaze. “And then he came at me. … He hit me. I ran to the street to run away from him, and he got me. He tried to trip me and then he kicked me in my testicles.”

In the cellphone video, the boy at one point appears to taunt the officer holding him: “He tried to hit me in my nuts. That’s like a little pussy move, punch a kid in the nuts.”

The boy’s mother told KTLA the family retained an attorney.

Officer Ferguson has been a part of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division since 2013 reports the LA Times. The report added that Capt. Andy Neiman said he’s at work again but not in the field.

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