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The Truth, the Police and a Shooting
Update: San Diego Police has released security camera footage and body cam videos of the shooting. This is a good move from a transparency aspect. This is the kind of speed that needs to happen more often than not.
So we had a shooting in downtown San Diego. The person who was shot, according to the police, was a 25-year-old Hispanic man, identified as Leonardo Hurtado Ibarra. He remains in Intensive Care.
The police wanted to talk to him since there was a robbery two days before, and Ibarra fit the description. And as the officers approached, he aimed something at them, and officers opened fire. They said that they returned fire, however, the person never fired his weapon. Police rendered first aid, and according to one of the videos posted on social media, it included chest compressions. Medics took him to a local hospital where he later went into surgery. According to news reports he is recovering as of this morning. And he was shot in the stomach area.
