According to Vermont State Police, a Rutland police officer shot a man in a Rte. 7 McDonalds restroom August 25 because he thought the cell phone in his hand was a weapon.
Officer Christopher A. Rose of the Rutland City Police Department provided a voluntary interview with Vermont State Police detectives on Wednesday, Sept. 8. Following that interview, VSP is able to provide additional information about the fatal shooting of Jonathan Mansilla that occurred on Aug. 25 in Rutland.
Following the vehicle crash on Allen Street near the McDonald’s in Rutland, Rose observed Mansilla run from the scene and into the restaurant. Rose gave chase in an attempt to apprehend the suspect and take him into custody.
According to interviews and witness statements, Mansilla fled into the men’s room inside the McDonald’s. Rose entered shortly afterward and saw Mansilla’s lower extremities under the gap at the bottom of a stall. Mansilla then exited the stall and ran toward Rose. The officer said he observed an object in Mansilla’s hand that he perceived to be an unknown weapon of some kind. Rose then fired three rounds from his department-issued handgun, striking Mansilla twice in the chest. The object Mansilla was carrying was later determined to be a cell phone.
State police detectives expect to conclude their work on the investigation in the coming weeks and turn over the matter to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office and the Bennington County State’s Attorney’s Office for independent reviews of Officer Rose’s use of deadly force.
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Dont mess with the police if you dont want to get shot.
I hope this Police Officer has good counsel. With the forces already beginning to circle the wagons, he will need it.
As a minimum, he needs to have someone with him when being interviewed by any person connected to this case. Preferably, counsel.
If the victim ran away from the scene, and then attacked the officer in the McDonalds restroom, he didn’t help himself, one bit, just as George Floyd set himself up. Floyd was high on drugs, trying to pass a counterfeit bill, riding in an unregistered car and wouldn’t follow police procedure. That doesn’t justify their untimely deaths, but today’s radical liberal lawyers, lawmakers and Antifa-type activists are blind in one eye and do not want to see through the other.
“TJ Donovan” is investigating? “TJ” standing for “Totally Justified” as usual..But other commenters are right, if you only just COMPLY you WILL live, period. The old saw has truth, “you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride”..Just follow the instructions of the man w/the gun, fools. He’s making split-second decisions while full of adrenaline & dealing w/the dregs of society daily, just COMPLY or DIE..SM.