Illegal alien involved with police officer’s death is released
Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, 19, resisted arrest and caused a scuffle that required a few law enforcement officers to address. One of the officers, Michael Kunovich, died because of the incident. Mendez was charged related to the officer’s death, but those charges were dropped. The reasons for dropping the charges involved Mendez’s lack of English comprehension, his cultural background, as well as his intellectual capacity. However, there were those among the responding officers who spoke Spanish.
From Fox News:
“Virgilio Aguilar finally FREE! God is great,” Arroyo wrote in a caption in Spanish.
The release comes 10 months after Kunovich, 52, collapsed from “medical distress” during the encounter with Aguilar Mendez, who was 18 at the time. The officer later died.
According to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, Kunovich initially approached Aguilar Mendez about 9 p.m. on May 19, suspecting him of a crime. Aguilar Mendez then continued walking away from the deputy.
“Aguilar Mendez was walking on a public sidewalk and speaking with his mother, which is not a crime,” a lawsuit states. “When Sgt. Kunovich seized Aguilar Mendez, he stopped and did not try to flee.”
The officer pursued Aguilar Mendez, who apologized in English, before continuing to resist the arrest.
The migrant was allegedly confused and told the deputy, “I’m sorry, no speak, no speak English.”
Other deputies, including those who spoke Spanish, responded, and officers tased the migrant and tackled him to the ground, Sheriff Robert Hardwick said at the time.
Fox News provides additional information here. Red State provides additional information and videos on some of the negative impact of illegal immigration, and Elon Musk’s warning if a specific election outcome is not achieved.
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“Illegal Migrant”? Is that a step up from illegal Immigrant or is it
different depending on the country of origin?
We need a scorecard/cheatsheet listing which is which.
Fucking Haiti is gonna need a class of it’s own.
They’re called illegal aliens. I refuse to play the semantics and name change games.
Next you’ll be saying that men can’t get pregnant.
Civil suit on false arrest and incarceration in 5.4.3.2..
Ooh, “migrant”… maybe he could’ve migrated here legally, too much to ask?
Don’t know the wait time from where Virgilio is from but the wait time from _LEGAL_ application submitted and received to immigration interview at the US Consulate in the Philippines is 24 years 6 months.
This is my experience from submitting for my Wife’s brother and wife and their newborn infants.
A lot of the immigration system needs to be changed or fixed. A lot of it has to do with lazy assed government bureaucrats that don’t /wont do their jobs. I have a nephew that we helped become legal. It took 6 years.
However, the immigration system and illegal aliens are not necessarily the same problem. Fix the system, but close the border while we do it.
“A lot of it has to do with lazy assed government bureaucrats that don’t /wont do their jobs”. Kinda like the VA?
Like a Duck?
What a WHOREHOUSE our so-called justice System has become. What’s next, a crackdown on vigilantism that doesn’t exist YET due to the system’s incompetence?
The police should have spoke the international language of a night stick upside the head.
Yup! Nothing like a Wood Shampoo to straighten out a perp!
Piece of shit
That’s nothing, hold my beer….
https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/
Remember we’re just catching the dumb ones.
Should’ve been “released” to the morgue.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t one of the cornerstones of our system of jurisprudence “Ignorance of the law is no defense”?
Anywhere in the world you go, you are expected to adhere to the laws of the land, regardless of your “status” as a citizen, illegal alien or tourist. You don’t speak the language, and don’t understand a man in a uniform with a badge and a gun is talking to you? Your problem, and not a defense.
The part of all these stories that really irks me is, in their countries, a man in a uniform is something to be feared and your freedom if not life is on the line if you don’t do everything in your power to comply with whatever is being said to you, whether you understand the language or not. Walking away from or ignoring the police because “no hablo” will likely get you beat, incarcerated, or killed in most of the places this batch of illegals come from.
The role, function and existence of a uniformed police force is universal. More than just about anything else, this tells me how weak the US is seen as by so much of the world when those who have just arrived here feel absolutely no impetus to respect, fear or even acknowledge the authority of our police.
Concur. Do they act like jerks back home? Probably a lot less, you’re right.
Do folk engage in hit-and-run drunk driving without a license, insurance or proper registration that leaves people dead back home in Mexico, Venuzuela or Honduras? Probably not. Those countries have laws against such things and police will probably beat perps apprehended so forth there. (Polizei will if they catch you drunk on the Autobahn in Germany.)
But here? Go see I-10 in El Paso– illegal alien drunk-drivin’ rally (watch ’em run after they hit someone, too).
Hit and run driving south of the border? Thought that was mandatory….
In Rosetta Stone’s hometown in the Southern Philippines, some local miscreant rapes a young girl and left her for dead in a ditch. The injured girls was discovered and rushed to a hospital. The suspect was quickly apprehended, and after a day or two in custody, he was taken to the interrogation room for an interview. While in the interrogation room, “he grabbed an officer’s gun and was subsequently shot to death by the other officers in the room”. This is how you reduce the recidivism rate among the criminal element.
Certainly the local community must have rose up in protest against the racist police brutality. If they didn’t at least loot the Nordstroms and The local Bath & Body Works they don’t even care about their community.
The criminal justice system there is racist. Almost 100% of the prison population is made up of Filipinos.
🤣🤣🤣
Desk sergeant: What happened to the suspect?
Officer: He fell down the stairs.
Desk Sergeant: This is a one-story building…
Officer: Yep.
Watch your step, a h!
I remember watching the Stadt Polizei teaching a dependapotamus to fly down a flight of steps after they arrested her for DUI. She ran her mouth like she was home in Joisey and they finally got tired of her and “released” her to our custody.
If you watch the original video interaction, Kunovich had zero reason to arrest the kid in the first place. The kid was sitting outside a motel room doing absolutely nothing wrong to require the officer’s attention. Kunovich inserted himself because he wanted to be a dick.
I’m not for illegal immigration, but I’m also not for cops inserting themselves between people and Constitutional rights. Kunovich had no idea the kid was illegal.
I agree to a point. Illegal aliens should not have constitutional rights. Those are for CITIZENS. Immigrate legally, become a citizen, and welcome to your new home and welcome to your rights.
But being a dick for the sake of being a dick,, well,, karma and all!!!
So, you had this conversation with the officer, and determined what he did and didn’t know exactly when? Just before he died or just after he died? Or, not at all?
And, “the kid” did do something wrong, he entered this country illegally.
I’m with you on illegal immigration. My brother was killed by an illegal alien.
What I am against is a police officer seeing someone sitting outside a motel room and walking up and questioning him/her for zero reason. Sure, a cop can come up to you and ask questions. You don’t have to answer though. Then arresting him for not answering questions. You are not obligated to help a cop in his investigation. At all.
Can you tell an illegal alien from a citizen? At night?
Usually, they respond with the standard “No habla” when you ask them a question.
I never said that I was ok with what went on from the police officers actions regarding this case! I fully agree that there are very terrible enforcers of the law!
My comments still stand! Illegal aliens entering this country and fixing an immigration system that is a government bureaucrat nightmare are 2 different things.
The officer very well may have been a DICK! I didn’t defend him or his actions!
Close the damn borders and quit blaming the immigration system for the reason of letting millions on fighting aged males just walk in!
I didn’t watch the video but according to the cops he was approached because the officer thought he had committed a crime. Had he cooperated with the officer, none of this would have happened.