{"id":26508,"date":"2014-10-28T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=26508"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:48:09","slug":"army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Army veteran gets emotional as cop points gun at him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Video footage of a Riverside County Sheriff pointing a firearm at an Army veteran following a traffic stop Sunday evening in Palm Desert, California, is going viral.<\/p>\n<p>The video was recorded by 26-year-old Alex Espinoza Natividad, a resident of Indio, who began filming the encounter after his friend, the driver of the vehicle, 26-year-old Michael Jude Jean-Baptiste was pulled over for blocking the middle lane of a busy street.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, when the officer approached the vehicle, Jean-Baptiste looked disoriented and unresponsive. The officer smelled the scent of marijuana and called the paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>The officer tried to turn off the ignition to the car, but Jean-Baptiste took off, driving a short distance before he pulled over. That&#8217;s when both men exited the vehicle and Natividad began recording.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no weapons. We are not a threat to you. Why are you pointing a gun at me? I am not a threat. I got out of the car and surrendered to you,\u201d Natividad says in the video, as his friend is on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The officer ordered Natividad to also get on the ground, but he refused, believing he had done nothing to warrant the officer pointing a gun in his direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI served in the United States Army, OK? I am scared for my freaking life right now,\u201d says Natividad, a veteran, who told <a href=\"https:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/tag\/kcal-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun\" title=\"Army veteran gets emotional as cop points gun at him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCAL 9<\/a> that he was medically discharged for a personality disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Natividad followed the officer&#8217;s request to get on the ground. Both were handcuffed. Jean-Baptiste was arrested and now faces charges for suspicion of driving while impaired on drugs. Natividad was released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s all completely their fault. And it\u2019s not completely mine. The situation could\u2019ve been handled way differently,\u201d Natividad said.<\/p>\n<p>Though, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/riverside-arms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun\" title=\"Army veteran gets emotional as cop points gun at him\" target=\"_blank\">Riverside County Sheriff&#039;s Department<\/a> perspective, the officer did his job just fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see anything in the video that stood out to me as a violation of our policy,&#8221; Capt. Andrew Shouse told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/news\/crime_courts\/2014\/10\/27\/deputy-la-quinta-gun\/18024831\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun\" title=\"Army veteran gets emotional as cop points gun at him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Desert Sun<\/a>. &#8220;He is not on administrative leave, and he is back at work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The captain also had a message to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage the community to remain inside the vehicle and not to exit the vehicle unless they\u2019re directed to do so by a police officer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage of a Riverside County Sheriff pointing a firearm at an Army veteran following a traffic stop Sunday evening in Palm Desert, California, is going viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":26509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"manual","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,261,216],"tags":[132],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-police-state","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Army veteran gets emotional as cop points gun at him<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Video footage of a Riverside County Sheriff pointing a firearm at an Army veteran following a traffic stop Sunday evening in Palm Desert, CA is going viral.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Army veteran gets emotional as cop points gun at him\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Video footage of a Riverside County Sheriff pointing a firearm at an Army veteran following a traffic stop Sunday evening in Palm Desert, California, is going viral.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/army-veteran-gets-emotional-cop-points-gun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-28T20:05:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-06T08:48:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/officer.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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