Cottonwood Police released a video of the violent encounter, which shows how the confrontation unfolded on 21 March, after officers were called about a Wal-Mart employee being shoved inside the store by one of the family members. The brawl broke out outside the store after police tried to separate the family members for questioning while they investigated the incident. Enoch Gaver, 21, was killed in the confrontation, 28-year-old David Gaver was shot in the abdomen but has since been released from hospital, and Police Sergeant Jeremy Daniels sustained a gunshot wound.
Police released video Friday that appears to show a chaotic brawl in an Arizona Walmart parking lot that left one suspect dead and two others shot, including an officer.
The shooting occurred during a fight between up to eight members of the Gaver family and at least four police officers. The video was captured by a dashboard camera and indicated the fight lasted for about seven minutes.
The fight happened after police were called to the Cottonwood, Ariz., Walmart on March 21 after a call reported that multiple suspects assaulted a female employee in the store. When officers arrived, the suspects were in the parking lot and attacked them, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Cottonwood Police Chief Jody Fanning said that during the brawl, Enoch Gaver, 21, disarmed Sgt. Jeremy Daniels and shot him in the leg. He said Gaver was still armed with Daniels’ gun when officer Rick Hicks started hitting him with a baton.
After Hicks determined the baton had no effect, he resorted to shooting Gaver to death, Fanning said. Hicks also shot and wounded David Gaver, who had been on top of Daniels and had charged toward Hicks, Fanning said.
Hicks initially was placed on leave after the March 21 shooting, but he went back on patrol Friday night.
“The preliminary investigation has given me enough evidence to place him back on duty,” Fanning said, adding that he believes Hicks’ actions were justified.
“The officers did a very good job of restraining themselves,” Fanning said. He said they resorted to deadly force only when the Gavers left them no other choice.
The Gaver family is well-known in Boise, where at least three members played in a Christian band called Matthew 24 Now outside an Albertsons supermarket and posted signs with a biblical verse.
The incident began when a female Walmart employee tried to use a women’s restroom and was prevented from doing so, getting pushed out of the way. Nathan Gaver told police that his mother, Ruth, was using the restroom, and that he and his brother Jeremiah were guarding it.
In another video clip, police arrive at the scene, where a large group of people are standing near a Chevrolet Suburban. The brawl ensues almost immediately after the third and fourth officers arrive.
Fanning said he still does not understand why the Gavers chose to fight his officers, rather than simply speaking to them. He said the likely outcome of the call would have been a misdemeanor citation with no one going to jail if the Gavers had not escalated the incident.
“I have no reason why they decided to fight us,” Fanning said.
The officers and the Gavers are seen punching each other on the video. At some point, an officer attempts to use a stun gun to bring the Gavers under control, but that appears to have little effect.
After Daniels is seen on the ground, struggling with one of the Gavers, Hicks is seen using the baton to strike the man. Later, Hicks pulls out his gun. The video captures the flash from the gun’s muzzle.
But even the fatal shooting doesn’t end the brawl. Additional officers arrive on the scene and fight with other members of the Gaver family to bring them under control.
Five Gavers were arrested by police and booked into the Yavapai County Jail on a variety of charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, hindering prosecution and resisting arrest.
I wonder if this is the American culture starfker is so proud of.
Judging from what’s shown in the brief video, the people were STANDING AROUND … copfuks show up, and there is an IMMEDIATE escalation to violence. That’s the chance you take when you call a copfuk.
I know the shot copfuk didn’t die. That’s a damn shame.
Question: Why did the cops even intervene?
Just let them beat the shit out of each other till they’re exhausted, then cuff and stuff them.
8 of them and two cops?
4 on 1 ain’t a dogfall…
Stucky , your turning from Gentle Ape into the Abominable Snowman.
Notice there is not a single black face to be seen
But the good thing about white trash is that they tend to want to live in rural and semi-rural areas, where they can park derelict cars on blocks allover their trash-strewn yards, and “marry” their 12-year-old nieces, without interference from the more civilized members of the community.
I’m really glad about that because we city dwellers have enough trashy people to deal with already.
Put these people together in a dense urban neighborhood, and you have exactly the same problems you do with ghetto blacks, and to the same degree. An old 40s vintage Chicago Tribune article I read, spoke of how Uptown Chicago’s hillbilly population caused more crime and violence and had more social problems than the black neighborhoods.
@ Shitcagostan,
Wow… could you be more fucking dense? You could always stereotype rural folks more, ya know. I don’t think you’re doing enough as it is…
Then you drag up some 75 year old Yankee newspaper clipping as “proof” for your dumbshittery…
You take folks from dissimilar cultures – especially as different as rural South and uppity damnyankee North and dump them together and OH MY FUCKIN” GAWD!! there’s trouble a-brewin’…
Well no shit, Sherlock… figure that out all by yourself, didja? Have a fuckin’ cookie…
Thanks for proving my theory that the vast majority of damnyankees – especially city types – are fukin’ useless mouthbreathing wastes of oxygen and a complete drag on society…
Chicago , do you consider yourself white trash ?I get it .Your fat ,ugly as hell and couldn’t get the attention of a white Billy Goat much less white man so your fall back position is negrows.I genuinely understand you. I go to some of the feminist sites. Then your black man gets you pregnant , beats you ass daily or worse and you finally end up hating white men even more because they still want nothing to do with you. So you end with a retarded mongol child ,fatter then ever living on welfare. Pretty close wouldn’t you say .
Stucky , I’m Pisses mad at you big boy .Come out of your hole and fight like a true white knight.
bb, as it happens, I don’t date black men and never will.
I am tall, slim, and very good-looking for my age. And I had a gorgeous boyfriend until he passed of cancer just recently, the kind of man who wouldn’t let a piece of white trash like you shine his shoes.
I’m simply pointing out that trash is trash, and I’m sick of it all. Bad enough we’re stuck with all the black and Mexican trash down here in the “shitty”, but the white trash like the garbage in this vid scares me just as much- stupid, dirty, volatile people who abuse their dozens of kids and live on welfare just like their black cohorts in the cities. Thank God these people don’t live as densely, or they’d be a much worse problem than they are.
I want to get where NONE of you are.
Fair enough , only problem is ….I think you’re lying about what you look like.Another problem is the I very seldom see white people behaving like this but I see it every Damn day with blacks. Especially intercity blacks. Go to the Daily Stormer blog or Thug Report site .They keep a daily account of blacks attacking whites You know the usual murder , raping , robbing , and a new one of setting white people on fire. Never see poor whites doing shit like this..
I guess I get tired of white women defending black behavior and then trying to act morally superior. I.had this happen to me years ago .Got into an argument with black guy who tried to break in line .A white woman came to defend this nigger piece of shit.If we would have been somewhere like out on open hwy I think I would have shot both of them.Sometimes white women are more disgusting then the nigger shit they so willing defend.
I wouldn’t have defended that guy. I know how it feels for one of these ghetto pigs to cut in front of me in line somewhere, and then glare at me as if to dare me to say anything.
Knowing my life depends on my self-control, I zip my lips and stare into the middle distance like I hadn’t noticed.
And you know what, I’ve had the same thing happen with trashy white women. There have been many such little encounters over the years, but one that stands out in my memory is an episode in a Dallas parking lot on a broiling summer day. My male companion and I, both ardent animal lovers, came out of a big warehouse type store we’d been grocery shopping in to see a pit bull chained to the back of a beat-up truck.
Now if there was anything neither my friend or I could tolerate, it was cruelty to an animal. The dog was clearly very hot, his tongue hanging out and his eyes glazed. He had no water. My male companion, a very conservative button-down type of guy who always was dressed up and always very polite, got a pie pan and filled up with water for the dog for fear the poor thing would die out there sitting on that hot asphalt with no water.
At just that moment, the owner came out and tore into us in a state of rage, threatening us with a weapon. We were unarmed, which was a very good thing for him, or I’d have blown him straight down for what he did next. He told us in no uncertain terms to stay away from his dog, he was trying to make the dog mean and we were “spoiling” him. We apologized, and when he put the dog in the cab, he PUNCHED THE DOG IN THE FACE. If I’d been carrying, I would have blown that bastard straight down without even thinking about it.
@ Shitcagostain…
Your argument, boiled down, is just more “WHITES DO IT TOOoooOOOOooO!” whining…
Yes, whites do dumb, violent shit too.
But you’re equivocating. Niggers are a fraction the percentage of whites, yet they are overwhelmingly the majority when it comes to the violent behavior depicted in the video.
The fact that this video is even being shown and debated is proof of the rarity of dumb white people doing dumb, violent shit like this… if it happened all the time, like with the niggers, it would be just another fucking dumb, violent white person getting shot. But it’s not.
Yet you sit there and put rural whites and inner city niggers on equal footing.
FUCKA-YOO, you damnyankee bitch.
If you want to have an informed opinion about this incident, you really owe it to yourself to watch the whole video and listen while the Chief of Police narrates the hard-to-see action (based on the reports of his officers who were there). That is, unless you were there or know anyone else who was.
In my opinion, the officers showed incredible restraint. In fact, I could make a case for the officers exhibiting INADEQUATE or INEFFECTIVE use of force at times in this situation. They were responding to a citizen’s call to 9-1-1 about an assault of a Walmart employee. The officers had the responsibility and the legal foundation to detain the family long enough to find out their side of the story and if an arrest or citation was appropriate. The family started using force on the officers when one officer merely stated they should separate them so they could be interviewed individually. The officers met force with proportional force and only shot two suspects after one of them had shot Sgt. Daniels with his own gun. Unlike many other incidents splashed across the media about hyper violent police, this one went down by the book.
@ thc0655,
This should be fun…
If you want to have an informed opinion about this incident, you really owe it to yourself to watch the whole video and listen while the Chief of Police narrates the hard-to-see action (based on the reports of his officers who were there).
Right, because all cops tell the truth all the time and never, ever cover for each other and make shit up out of the blue, lie, plant evidence or anything like that, right? And the Chief, being an elected official, has a vested interest in keeping his constituents happy, right? Nothing to see here, move along…
In my opinion, the officers showed incredible restraint. In fact, I could make a case for the officers exhibiting INADEQUATE or INEFFECTIVE use of force at times in this situation.
I could make a case for the Sergeant being an incompetent dumbfuck for letting himself be disarmed, then shot with his own handgun. The same incompetence that allowed an emotionally compromised man to have his handgun and then be shot dead as a result. If the Sergeant were competent, then dude wouldn’t have gotten ahold of his handgun and would still be alive today.
So there’s that.
They were responding to a citizen’s call to 9-1-1 about an assault of a Walmart employee.
Sooo, some other, third person – other than the allegedly assaulted Walmart employee called to report the alleged assault. Isn’t that known as “hearsay”?
The officers had the responsibility and the legal foundation to detain the family long enough to find out their side of the story and if an arrest or citation was appropriate.
Your bias is showing. You’ve already convicted them, since you didn’t include “or nothing“, being as the 911 call was made by a 3rd party who was not a victim. Anyone can call 911 and make shit up, and say anything about anyone. Doesn’t make it true.
The family started using force on the officers when one officer merely stated they should separate them so they could be interviewed individually.
When you’re outnumbered by a large margin, the “One Ranger, One Riot” mindset is stupid. If they’re beating the shit out of each other, let them go until they’re played out. Then step in and secure them. That testosterone laden “Wade in, guns a-blazin’!” bullshit makes things worse more often than not.
The officers met force with proportional force and only shot two suspects after one of them had shot Sgt. Daniels with his own gun.
See my above remarks re: incompetent dumbfuck letting himself be disarmed and shot with his own duty weapon.
Unlike many other incidents splashed across the media about hyper violent police, this one went down by the book.
Only if the book is the one below…
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I’m waiting for a call from my brother who lives in Boise. I think he had a run in with this family a few years back.
I’m surprised every cop in the county didn’t show up, encircle the family and fire indiscriminately killing cops and bad guys until they ran out of ammo.
It’s definitely easy to hate the cops considering their behavior in a growing number of incidents nationwide but I don’t envy them one bit. You never know when a situation is going to break bad. Dealing with that daily uncertainty would drive me insane and I’d probably need to beat a few motherfuckers myself to relieve some stress.
Stucky, the culture I defend is a christian one. These retards are mormons.
Billy, take a moment to watch the presentation thc0655 so kindly provides us with a link to. If I were a cop on that scene I would have shot every last one of them, and then pistol whipped the female wal-wart employee
@ star,
Bro, lemme tell ya…
In this world, there are people walking around and breathing because “He needed killin’, yer Honor” is not a valid defense in court…
But our system isn’t set up to work like that.
Dumbshits? Yep. Deserving an ass-whoopin’? Yep. Some folks just deserve to have their ass kicked into the dirt…
But “deserve” has got nothing to do with it. Same as there’s the Law, there’s Justice and there’s Right – and the three rarely match up.
Point taken.
Starfcker, out
Nothing is fucked dudes, nothing is fucked…………..cuz Hitlery will right all the wrongs and evil in this here society when she is elected as our first female/lesbian president. Move along, there is nothing to worry about. Walmart will be safe again for the Joe Sixpacks of Amerika.
I bet the mother was takin’ a major deuce and them boys didn’t want the Walmart employee to smell what was coming out the RANK bunghole of that puffy eyed wilderbeast. And then they got shot fer their courtesy. AMERIKA IS DOOMED I TELL YA