Daniel Garcia, 32

"Fearing for their safety" is a common excuse cops claim to justify their killings. What kind of BS is it that cops claimed that this man attacked them while he was being tazered? First of all is impossible, but of course, these cops' testimonials will hold in court and they will get away with murder. What most likely happened is the cop shot the suspect while he was down and they are now fabricating a story by claiming the suspect attacked them. There are way too many incompetent cops that don't have the skills or training to handle these kinds of situations and as far as I'm concern they don't belong in the department. Killing a thief is not the answer. To all of you cop supporters, open up your eyes and let me know of a case where a copy actually admitted killing a suspect accidently or out of anger? These murderers will deny deny deny no matter how much evidence there is. A perfect example, Rodney King.

Jag - your commentary is way to liberal for me. If the guy was really worried about his life then maybe he should have complied with the officer's commands. Oh... I guess ROBBERY SUSPECTS don't have to do that... and the fact that someone has a knife in their hand and is coming towards you with it is really not a good reason to protect yourself?

The cops did precisely what they were trained to do. I wager that the victims of Mr. Garcia are not shedding any tears.

The guy had a knife, was belligerent, and was a robber.

His fate was exactly what any reasonable person would expect to happen.

Jag you have to be kidding. Here we have a man fleeing a robbery, being followed by a citizen, then other citizens direct the cops to where they saw him go hide AND he's in possession of "a large bladed folding knife". We have multiple officers stating that first they tased him and yet he kept on coming after them. Your statement that it's impossible for a suspect to continue to attack after being tased is false as sometimes due to clothing or an incomplete hit or drugs or adrenaline, the tazor is not completely effective. It seems every single time we have an officer involved shooting, you immediately assume they are lying and call them murderers and such. What the hell is wrong with you boy?!

....and one more thing, jag. If this dude really did commit this robbery, which from the trail of witnesses and evidence seems likely, then good riddance to the piece of human garbage. This city has way to many armed robbers, gangsters and thugs.

"Investigators said they recovered a large bladed folding knife” I’m surprised the length of the knife was not provided. In an instance where a knife is 7"or 10", such information does not get omitted, but if the size is 3" and is a pocket knife it will make the cops look incompetent. I just love it when certain information is purposely left out just to make a killing justifiable.

Jag, I'd rather the occasional "murder" by cop on these thug's, than being a victim of a thieving, knife wielding thug. You must know or live a thug life to be a cop hater. I support them!!! Whack them thug's! Make this a safer place to live.

These cops are cowards. In my day, this man would have been shot in the kneecap which will stop a charging rhino. It's apparent that these cops are incapable of the very nature of their work. I suggest they find new careers and leave the "crazies" to the public.

Jag - There were eye witnesses. But, your blind and deaf to anything that might support a cop's story including fact. Clearly, you have a deep rooted bias towards cops and probably any kind of authority. I imagine you feel the robber was the victim here. There's a saying that best describes people like you, Ignorance born of arrogance. You might be the poster boy for that saying.

BTW - There are many documented cases of suspects continuing aggressive behavior after having been tasered. It usually is a result of drugs in the system that buffers the effect of the taser. But, that's where your ignorance comes in to play.

— jack .... please dont tell us fantasy stories about police conduct "back in your day".

The police back then as well as now, shoot to kill. A wounding shot exists only in the fertile imaginations of people that have watched too many Hollywood films

I applaud these officers. Not because they killed the suspect but because they initially tried not to kill him. I do not believe that anyone becomes a police officer because they want to shoot people and get away with it. People choose law enforcement as a career in an effort to make a difference. Based on the information here I feel the officers in this case used the necessary steps of force in the correct order. There are cops out there that should not be cops but the same thing goes for doctors and teachers.
Jag and Jack, you are basically idiots.

Jag-Ever hear of Officer Mehserle?????? Your comments loose all credibility because you spout off without checking facts. There are many many many cases of tazers not stopping a suspect.

Jack you are a blind idiot. Someone comes at you with a knife, doesn't respond to a taser likely due to PCP and meth ingestion. The suspect was probably flailing around. U think the police can hit his kneecap? I think I am the idiot for even acknowledging Jack. Good job police in ridding the streets of another scumbag. Of course the family and friends will say he was such a family man that would do anything for anybody and blah blah blah.

Hey Jack, trying to shoot a man's kneecap as he's rushing at you with a knife would be a very foolish thing to do. A kneecap is, what, about four inches square and if you go off to either side it's a complete miss. No, in a situation like that you aim for the broadest part of the suspect in hopes of stopping him cold. By the way, same story for a charging rhino.

Ok first of all if montebello cops want to get me in retaliation for saying this it's easy for them, just follow my IP address and there you found me.. With that said, I know what happend that day, the man was ordered to surrender he did, he put his arms up but cops shot him anyways, he did not attack...I am a montebello resident
And I have witness several unjustified treatment with montebello officers. I my self did not witness this specific incident but I know someone who was very close to this incident.freedom of speech!! Respect my amendment

Good for you Montebello P.D. As a lifelong resident of the city I can attest to the rising amount of garbage in our city(like this guy who was killed) As far as the person who says "I wasnt there but I know what happened because somebody who was told me",I know what happened as well even though I wasn't there because I just read the story.Montebello P.D.,keep working hard to keep the garbage of our city south of Whittier Blvd where it has always collected.

— Yb, so you are an eye witness? You were physically on the scene and saw everything that transpired?

Yb, I believe your statement and I know how cops aggressiveness and emotions get on the way when they try to arrest a suspect. Their anger pushes them to shoot and kill people. All cops supporters automatically claimed the suspect was under the influence of drugs when nowhere in article it states that. Also, some went as far to say that tazering someone with two tazer guns is not sufficient to put the suspect down. Of course, some have gone as as far as calling me idiot, now that's just being flat out naive. Let me be clear I don't support what he did, but the punishment, his death, does not fit the crime.

For those who claim that cops shoot just to kill, there is a good reason for that. It is protocol to shoot in the chest area. My family member (really close member) is a retired 30 year veteran. Once and once only did he have to shoot someone. The incident occurred in the mid 80's when a man high on PCP ran at my family member with a knife. He ordered the suspect down who kept charging at him regardless. He thought "shoot to stop, not to kill" so logic says take out the leg. He shoots the suspect in one leg with no effect. The man keeps charging so he shoots the other leg which finally stopped him. The man is still alive and a successful arrest was made.

16 years later the case was reopened by former police chief Parks. Upon review, they found that my family member was wrong to shoot the legs. He was supposed to shoot the chest. So he was suspended for months without pay.

This is why most officer involved shootings are fatal. They are not allowed to aim anywhere but the chest without being punished for it.

You're right jag. The punishment did not fit the crime. My father, Daniel Garcia, was a good man. This wasn't like him. I want everyone to know that...

To Aly,
Taking into considertaion that your father was 32 years old I can only assume that you are a teenager. With that said, I am glad that your father was a good man in your eyes. However, all the victims of his crimes have a pretty good argument as to why he is not. I have had a gun pulled on me while in the middle of a robbery. No matter what was told to me at the court hearing NO one will ever convince me that the man at the other end of the gun was a good man who had a bad day. I wanted that "good man" to pay for what he did. And to be honest with you...I just might have used my gun that night had I had one. That's one of the problmes with this blog the families testify to what a great man this was but everything that man did leads the reader to question the validity of that statement.

Jett, what does your experience of being robbed at gun point have to do with Cesar's death? Are you getting off on Aly while she's grieving her dad's death? Unbelieveable!

Family of a police officer,

That's crazy that Chief Parks opened and revisited the case involving your family member! That goes to show how dysfunctional the LAPD was under his watch. While The Rampart scandal was happening, and LAPD were working security for gang members, doing armed robberies, and killing Biggie Smalls, Chief Parks was investigating a 16 year old shooting?? Crazy! That's the LAPD for you.

Why is everyone so sensitive. He robbed someone. That alone, should justify being shot!

@mark

So You want the Death Penalty to be applied for Robbery? You have a weird concept of justice. This is not the Wild West.

@ family of police officer

That is messed up. They need to change that. If an officer manages to arrest a suspect alive, he needs to be rewarded for it, not punished...

@eveyone else

This guy had it coming. Its unfortunate and i certainly dont cheer to other peoples deaths, but if you committ a robbery there is a good chance you get shot. If you wield a knife attacking Cops there is a huge chance for you to get killed. I am pretty sure, that cops dont enjoy killing people either. They are just human and also have to deal with traumas resulting from incidents like these for the rest of their lifes. Sure there are some bad cops out there, but most of them are good decent people.
Its the guy who put his life at stake here who is at fault.
Rest in peace anyways....

— Mr. Wolf, I agree with you on all.

But I would like to add that armed robbery should be treated as an exceptionally serious crime. If the perpetrator ends up dead, no one should care.

@syscom... I dont think you can expect relatives of a deceased person not to care. That would be just inhuman. Its natural that a mother loves her child, a brother his brother, an uncle his nephiew and so on. You cant take that away from them. Sometimes kids get out of control, because of bad friends, because of a dysfunctional family even though family members try their best. And they get on the wrong path and maybe make wrong decisions in life, hang with a bad crowd and so on. No parent/family, except for the very worst would wish that up on their child and so they grieve too when their child meets their fate even though some bad decisions were involved. They will still cry their eyes out or maybe especially because of that. You cant expect them not to. Thats how life goes.
No matter what the kid did a mother has all rights to mourn her dead child (insert any other family member here).

— Mr. Wolf, you are correct. I just consider this blog as to be the last place a family member (of a deceased criminal or gangster) should come too, expecting sympathy or understanding.

I dont have time to read all comments on this murder. I call things what they are. Let's make a test. I will shoot you a hundred times with two seperate tazer gun's at the same time. If on any of those 100 hundred times you could still charge me I accept they police's testimony. Please remember my freind was killed by detectice J!@$son form MPD. Shot in back while running away.

— Cesar Vega, how do you know he was shot in the back? Were you there? Or are you repeating rumor and stories started from people who were never there in the first place.

"I dont have time to read all comments on this murder." ... Maybe you should.

I FULLY understand why the familys mourn for their criminal love ones & back them up all the way, its only abvius that they were nice to them cause theyre related... Hellooooo!!! Just like a PITBULL very nice to the owner but once released out the yard its a nightmare come true. All I can say is that im glad that i didnt run into Daniel Garcias path or i would have been robbed for my hard working $$ or maybe even hurt. Well i guess the Montebello Police stopped Daniel from future robberies ETC.. Cause i dont believe jail time would have changed him. I feel bad for his family only!!! but hey! It Is What It Is!! At the end NO one innocent died which I am glad!!!!

Well Syscom3 dude maybe I worded my sentences wrong. I had a friend murdered by an MPD Detective he was shot in his back. I do not know Daniel Garcia, I was trying to point out tazer experiment in court would likely prove that Daneil couldnt have still charged the officers after being tazed. I wasnt born yesterday. that story stinks a little you must admit.

I went to grade school in Montebello, my family moved when I was in 8th grade, Things have changed since then...and I do like the city of Montebello, till this day! To tell the truth the thug wouldn't have died if he would have been doing something productive...job?

I went to High School with Danny and he was genuily a great guy, one of my closest friends. His mom moved him to El Monte to get him away from all of the "homies" and trouble makers. It breaks my heart to know that he still went down the wrong path. No matter what, that punishment did not fit the crime.
@ Aly - I''m so sorry to hear about your dad, he was a good friend.

Glad to hear that people who did not know this guy has something to say about him. Yes he was robbing someone...... But did he really need to be shot after being tazed twice? Anyone under 200 pounds would hit the ground. so he was not over weight nor did he have any drugs in his system. It's as simple as the cops over reacted and of course they will get away with it as always. I may have not known him well but what I did know of him during childhood he was a sweet guy who was trying to go down a new path. It's just to bad he never found that path. As for the other comments..... Unless you were there....... Shut the he'll up

Summertime - "so, he was not overweight and didn't have drugs in his system"

"I may not have known him well but in childhood...." If you only knew him well in childhood then you don't know if he had drugs in his system and you weren't there....So, follow your own advise...shut the he'll up!! Oh, and in answer to the only relevent thing you said....Yes. he did.

It's easy to say that he was kill unjust because that's YOUr point of view..But none of us where there and we have to back our cops...Every day they have to put up with the scum of the earth.I say thank you to these public servents for protecting me and my family.

You guys are selfish & nieve to think this man was actually a bad person. He was a loving man with a caring family. Why use that much force when the man only had a knife, and the polive had actual guns? .. doesnt make any sense to me.

Cops are being trained to shoot to kill that doesnt mean that they cant find another way. The cops could of shot him in the leg both legs ect.there are other ways but they decited to kill him end of story.
They got the green light to kill when someone comes towards them with a weapon and they did. Im sure if it were a family member of theirs they would of handled it differently.

Mia

Jag , ur so freakin right , I know Garcia , he was my dad !& cops just think theyre all cool just by killing people ! -.- I swear man that's mest up for all the cops for Doug that , they had no right to do that to my dad ! My dad I'm pretty sure once he got tazered he would've gone straight to the ground . But the cops probably felt like shooting and killing my dad . Well I hope the cops are happy that his whole family are in pain because of them ! Those cops that shot my dad should be kicked out get fired !!

Okay this is his daughter alright ! So all u people with all that negative comments , just stop . My dad was a good person . Everyone makes mistakes ! Sorry if ur were " perfect " which I doubt ! -.- so all u people shut up ! My dad was a good person & the cops were buttholes for doing that to him ! Jag ur so right cops always use that . They are just thinking they're all cool cuz they are police and are " top dogs" but whatever my dad would've have been still trying to strike them with a knife that's bs ! An my dad would've gone straight to the ground after Beig tazered ! I hope those cops are happy for puting his family in freakin pain like this ! All u people are selfish ! My poor dad had a small knife -.- the cops did have guns ! And Cops that's all bs too me ! Mark shutup my dad was ill then do he shouldnt have been shot ! How would u like it if one of ur loved ones got shot like that ?! U wouldnt like it okay ! Cops should've had let him lived ! I'd rather it would've been me instead of him ! Bye !!!

Well this is my dad everyones talking crap about ! I don't appriecate u guys being like that . My dad was a really good man but he didn't deserve that he was a young man . I agree with emely those pigs had 2 GUNS ! my dad only had one knife ! Who was gonna win ? Obviously the pigs . So they should've gave my dad a chance . They could've shot him in the legs or something , not killing him . Ever since this happend I really HATE HATE HATE pigs ! (cops ) that was an unfair death

none of u guys knew my dad okay so dont be disrepecting him like that . & my dad didnt need to be killed just by robbing at least jail . there was no need to kill him. he was a really good man . i agree with emely . okay the pigs (police ) has 2 GUNS & my dad had a damn knife who was obviously gonna win ?!?!?! apperently the damn cops right ? they couldve at least just shot him in the legs or something , not causing his life . u selfshish cops he had kids u know ?! -.- u guys ruined a familys life forever ! my dad was ill at the moment ! id rather it of been me than of my dad ! gosh i hope u guys are happy that im dadless . who am i gonna count as my dad ? i need my dad ! buti dont have one anymore . i was barely getting close to him /: we had some good times before this horrible tragedy happend , i wish i at least had more but i cant cuz of those ccops -.- i bet thoses cops we liddo trainys , gosh and JAG ur so right , thats all they say the fear for their safety . <---- that is not an excuse to KILL people ! they have families ! u cops shouldnt just think about ur self okay ! well im done , so NOONE be disrepecting my dad ! he was a good person .

none of u guys knew my dad okay so dont be disrepecting him like that . & my dad didnt need to be killed just by robbing at least jail . there was no need to kill him. he was a really good man . i agree with emely . okay the pigs (police ) has 2 GUNS & my dad had a damn knife who was obviously gonna win ?!?!?! apperently the damn cops right ? they couldve at least just shot him in the legs or something , not causing his life . u selfshish cops he had kids u know ?! -.- u guys ruined a familys life forever ! my dad was ill at the moment ! id rather it of been me than of my dad ! gosh i hope u guys are happy that im dadless . who am i gonna count as my dad ? i need my dad ! buti dont have one anymore . i was barely getting close to him /: we had some good times before this horrible tragedy happend , i wish i at least had more but i cant cuz of those ccops -.- i bet thoses cops we liddo trainys , gosh and JAG ur so right , thats all they say the fear for their safety . <---- that is not an excuse to KILL people ! they have families ! u cops shouldnt just think about ur self okay ! well im done , so NOONE be disrepecting my dad ! he was a good person .

well i am saying dont be disrepescting my dad NONE of u guys know how he was okay ! well jag ur totally right & emely COPS (pigs) are selfish but whatevr cops always win the cases but u know what i know my dad was a really good man , none of u guys no that , & he was a thug or ganster alright , so dont be saying things u dont know . u this is his daughter so dont be saying ANYTHING !