Juan Flores Palasios

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Name as recorded

Juan Flores Palasios

Age as recorded

42

Gender as recorded

Male

Race as reported

Hispanic/Latino

Date of the injury resulting in death

April 12, 2006

Location as recorded

Passaic, Passaic County370 Monroe St. Passaic NJ 07055 Passaic

Highest level of force as recorded

Gunshot

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Passaic Police Department

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Fatal Encounters' description of the incident, verbatim. This is the source project's own third-party narrative, not this site's reporting.

Juan Palasios was shot in the back after he allegedly threatened a police officer. He was leaving Johnny's when patrol Officers Jose Irizarry and Emery Simmons warned him that he could not drink from an open container in the street. Palasios then pulled a knife from a homemade sheath and began threatening Irizarry, police said. The officers told him to drop the weapon, but when he appeared to reach for Irizarry's collar, and Simmons shot and killed Palasios.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u7mSuljXOoOLYuMcev2Mi3ZUuMl9umQvMwcKZETHAyA/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Juan Flores Palasios died on April 12, 2006 in Passaic, Passaic County, with "Gunshot" as the highest level of force. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset of deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind; a record is not a finding of fault or misconduct.

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Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?

The record's agency field reads "Passaic Police Department". Presence in that field means the agency appears in the record as reported, nothing more; it is not a claim of fault or responsibility by any officer or agency.

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Where did this happen?

The record places the death in Passaic, Passaic County, on April 12, 2006. The address as recorded is 370 Monroe St. Passaic NJ 07055 Passaic.

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Does this record mean police caused or were at fault for this death?

No. Fatal Encounters documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits and crashes, suicides that occurred in police presence, and medical emergencies. This record documents that a death occurred during an encounter; it is not a finding of fault, misconduct, or wrongdoing, and it has no connection to the discipline records elsewhere on this site.

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