{"id":146347,"date":"2023-08-25T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146347"},"modified":"2023-08-24T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T01:24:06","slug":"father-of-veteran-killed-by-police-believed-that-the-killing-could-have-been-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146347","title":{"rendered":"Father of veteran killed by police believed that the killing could have been avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_146348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146348\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zachary-Shogren-34-runs-with-a-knife-against-the-orders-of-the-police-officers-by-Duluth-Police-Department-and-Fox-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zachary-Shogren-34-runs-with-a-knife-against-the-orders-of-the-police-officers-by-Duluth-Police-Department-and-Fox-21-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zachary-Shogren-34-runs-with-a-knife-against-the-orders-of-the-police-officers-by-Duluth-Police-Department-and-Fox-21-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zachary-Shogren-34-runs-with-a-knife-against-the-orders-of-the-police-officers-by-Duluth-Police-Department-and-Fox-21-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zachary-Shogren-34-runs-with-a-knife-against-the-orders-of-the-police-officers-by-Duluth-Police-Department-and-Fox-21.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Zachary Shogren, 34, runs with a knife against the orders of the police officers. (Duluth Police Department\/Fox 21 Local News)<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police officers in Duluth, MN, approached Zachary Shogren, 34, to arrest him for allegedly making terroristic threats. However, when they came to detain him, he did not cooperate with their orders. Shogren had a knife in his hand, ignored commands to drop the knife, then ran in a way that made the police officers feel threatened.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox 21 News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DULUTH, Minn. &#8212; Body camera footage has been released involving a February officer-involved shooting that killed a Duluth veteran. Last week, that officer was cleared of any charges after an outside investigation. And now, the man&#8217;s father tells FOX 21 deadly force could have easily been avoided. for this encounter and it resulted in the death of our son,&#8221; Jim Shogren said.<\/p>\n<p>We begin with the Feb. 24 encounter that lead up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Duluth police said they were trying to arrest Zachary Shogren, 34, on a warrant for alleged terroristic threats. Police said he would not surrender and that he pulled out a knife.<\/p>\n<p>The video released Wednesday has been edited by authorities, as allowed by law, to protect identities and voices of undercover officers and leave out portions that are too sensitive. In the video, the first shots heard are from a police Taser gun and a sponge-round gun, followed by the final and fatal shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook County Attorney&#8217;s Office reviewed the case and concluded no charges to be filed because sufficient evidence showed officers believed there was a threat of death or great bodily harm to another officer.<\/p>\n<p>Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa released a statement Wednesday with the release of the body camera footage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox 21 News provides the balance of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/2023\/08\/23\/father-of-veteran-shot-killed-by-duluth-police-says-death-was-avoidable-police-video-released\/\">here<\/a>, including the father&#8217;s statement as well as body camera video of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers in Duluth, MN, approached Zachary Shogren, 34, to arrest him for allegedly making terroristic &hellip; <a title=\"Father of veteran killed by police believed that the killing could have been avoided\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146347\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father of veteran killed by police believed that the killing could have been avoided<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}