PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine attorney general’s office says two law enforcement officers met the legal threshold for using deadly force during a shootout on a Portland sidewalk.
Investigators said Friday that U.S. Deputy Marshal Michael Tenuta and Special U.S. Deputy Marshal John Gill, part of a violent offender task force, each fired four times after Arien L’Italien of Biddeford fired at them as they attempted to arrest him on Jan. 27 in Portland.
L’Italien, who was shot in the leg, is in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges including assaulting a federal officer and being a felon in possession of a gun.
Following the shootout, L’Italien made the news again when he managed to sneak out of his jail cell to have a tryst with a female inmate.
Good deal.
Too bad their aim wasn’t better. Could have saved the taxpayers a lost of housing costs.
Yes, but then they would be facing all the accusations of unjustly killing someone without reason. And no matter how justified they were in shooting back, someone would say they should have just tasered him or used pepper spray. Because everyone knows how effective those are against bullets, right?
I have said this in another post and will say it again Why is it that when
terrible crimes happen in Maine everyone is so appalled, but then it seems like
so many Maine people can’t be bothered with calling for more resources to be
given to the Courts Corrections and the Police. I don’t know, just
saying.