Officer Holds Man & Seven-Year-Old Daughter At Gunpoint For Driving A Rental Car On Their Vacation

Williams, Arizona (VN)  – On Thursday, August 11, 2016, Ken Walton was traveling east on  Interstate-40 toward the Grand Canyon with his daughter safely buckled  in a car seat beside him in the rental vehicle they had taken from San  Francisco. He had noticed an Arizona Highway Patrol car driving behind  him for a mile or so when the officer flashed on his lights. Walton  pulled over, rolled down his window and waited for Highway Patrol  Trooper Oton Villegas to approach the vehicle.

To his surprise, Officer Villegas inched toward the vehicle on the  passenger side with his gun drawn. When Walton had noticed the officer  approach the side of his car, he saw that the officer had his gun  pointed at him with his daughter in the line-of-fire. The officer  ordered Walton to lower the passenger window. Being in an unfamiliar  vehicle, Walton was struggling to find the button for the passenger  window while keeping his hands visible to an officer who is threatening  their lives.

Walton’s 7-year-old daughter rolled down the window. “I  explained that we were in a rental car, that we had no weapons, and I  was having trouble figuring out how to roll down the front passenger  window from my driver’s side door,” Walton recounts.

As his daughter struggled to lower the window further, the officer  pointed his gun directly at her and ordered her not to move. The officer  then ordered Walton to exit the vehicle. He exited promptly with his  hands raised in the air. The officer stepped to the driver’s side of the  vehicle ordering Walton to face away from him. Officer Villegas shouted at Walton, who was still facing away from  the officer with his hands in the air, “Get your hands away from your  waist or I’ll blow two holes through your back right now!” 

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