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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

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Fired New Mexico cop regrets shooting at minivan full of kids


Former state police officer Elias Montoya said his ‘heart sank’ when he realized the dangerous mistake he made as Oriana Farrell fled a routine traffic stop.

BY STEPHEN REX BROWN
The former New Mexico state police officer who fired three shots at a minivan packed with five kids said “his heart sank” when he realized his mistake.
“My heart sank when they finally stopped and I was at the passenger side at that time seeing them get out at gunpoint again," Elias Montoya, 53, told ABC News, recalling the routine traffic stop gone awry.
"I couldn't believe it that there were that many children in there."
On Oct. 28 last year one of Montoya’s fellow officers pulled over the minivan driven by Oriana Farrell in Taos, N.M., for going 71 mph in a 55 mph zone.
Farrell had her five children in the minivan, aged 6 to 18.
The stop escalated into a heated argument and Farrell’s 14-year-old son confronted the officer
A heated argument between the trooper and Ferrell led her 14-year-old son to join the melee while a different trooper tried to smash the ride’s passenger-side window.
Montoya — who arrived with the confrontation in full swing — fired at the van as Ferrell drove off.
Speaking publicly for the first time regarding the incident, Montoya insisted to ABC he was aiming for the tire — not the passengers.
"I'm not shooting at a human being. I'm shooting at a tire," Montoya said.
After a high-speed chase Farrell pulled over, and Montoya realized what he’d done.
"If I knew that there was even one child in that vehicle," he said. "I wouldn't have done it."
He said it was the first time he’d fired his weapon after 12 years on the force.
Ferrell was charged with child abuse, fleeing and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia for two marijuana pipes she had in the car.

Montoya is pursuing an appeal of his termination. He was fired for violating trooper rules regarding the use of deadly force.