Note: Make a mental note of this cop's name [James Peters]. Before too much longer, if he's allowed to stay in uniform, he'll be involved in the shooting of someone else!

Three officer in position, guess which one shoots, and then they all slap each other on the back in joy as one on scene whitness explains, they are always tuff when this really bad guys who kicks garbage cans have a cell phone or a stick, but when they have a gun, these tuff police are under the bed. This guy is lucky he lives in the good ole US, in Mexico two would have been his bag limit.

This trigger Happy Cowboy (this so Peace Officer) should be dismissed from a I'm sure good Police Department, before the Dept. is down graded to F grade.

The people should demand to remove this happy trigger shooter from the force without aPay/retirement funds. The state should investigate any trigger happy shooter, and penalize the Department for not recognizing a very disturb individual.

How does he explain his behavior to his Family and if he has any friends.

I will keep away from a city that hires non-peace Officers.

He will be ruled as Justifiable shooting as always. My favorite is shooting an unarmed man 73 times because he was sitting in his car drunk. Or the woman picking up kids at a daycare then shot six times and killed, also unarmed. WE HAVE TO FEAR THE COPS MORE THAN THE CRIMINALS. At least the criminals may go to jail. The cops are ruled Justifiable-No justice in that. One more, the man hit, kicked, and shot. Also unarmed. All because they thought he was drunk and did not get up when ordered. He was unarmed. He was Mentally slow was all. This all caught on video. Also Justifiable

Notice the city paid out $75,000 for his last murder, without admitting liability. They wouldn't pay out money if his murder was justifiable. This one doesn't look justifiable either. When cops commit murder, they get a two week paid vacation as a reward, then they are always exonerated after their paid vacation. Does everyone have the right to shoot someone in the head if they are acting a little crazy and have a cell phone? If so you better not get upset at someone when your on your cell phone. Oh, I forgot only the police can commit murder and get treated like they did something right.

We can send our military personnel to prison for shooting suspected enemy in a war zone that are unarmed, but when a cop shoots an unarmed man in the back of the head because a neighbor said he had a gun and another cop said he had "something" in his hand, that's justifiable? I think not.

Next time you need help, call a reporter. He can write your obituary.

Send him to Sheriff Joe. He'll take REAL good care of him...

I wasn't at the scene but any officer who has shot and killed six people in 10 years needs to be really investigated. Sounds like an over active officer who isn't using lethal force as a last resort. I think that city will get sued if all 6 people's families get together and bring a class action case. Where is the FBI for violation of civil rights without due process.? This guy needs to be taken off the street and never allowed to carry a firearm sounds like a serial killer with a badge to me.

Knocked the anchor baby right out of his hands!

Good for Him,

Can we chip in and get him some kind of an award, maybe a Gift Card or something?

Bravo! We need more like him!

Not on person knows anything about the event. So speculate all you want. I do find it stange that they believed him to be armed. Seven previous fatals? Wonder what the % chance of any officer to be involed in just one high risk post or not?

flame away trolls

With only half a story you get assumptions...One caller to 911 said Grandpa was walking around with a handgun as well as with his Grandson in his arm.

You could argue Grandpa was using the Grandson as a shield. Let's wait for the investigation to end before we pass judgement.

Sounds like this guy has a taste for killing . No weapon visible .. even his fellow officers said there was no weapon .

Trigger happy cop probably high on caffeine .

this guy isn't just a cop he is also judge, jury, and executioneer. but on the other hand he has saved the taxpayers a lot of money in court fees, public defenders fees and the cost of prison time. so is he a hero or a villan?

//You don't need terrorist or foreign enemies to kill our american ppl call a cop some will gladly do it, until the tide turns, kill one of them because you fear for your life or you thought you saw something in their hands and see how much your worth then. There are some law enforcement officers and then there are some officers who think they are the law, takes our tax dollars paying for a public service to another level if you get my drift... "murder she wrote an they call it justified"...........damn shame.

I bet there are only a handful of Marines with 6 kills who did like four tours in Iraq at its absolute worst, yet this guy somehow tallies 6 kills in... Scottsdale Arizona????? I mean it's not even like it's a high crime city, there were literally two gun fatalities there last year.

Officer Peters is on the SWAT team and he received authorization (to take action) in many of these shootings. The article intentionally failed to include that piece of information as it makes the story more inflammatory. Note that only armed criminals with prior history were shot by the officer . . . no innocent civilians.

The single nuisance settlement of $75k proves how valuable that particular individual was to society. The family chose to file a civil suit & that the insurance carrier chose to settle. That is neither a reflection on the officer nor does it reflect on the life led by the dead suspect.

Scottsdale, Arizona is a much safer place to live because of the actions of Officer Peters.

Thuggish Ruggish pig.

Gun or not in his hand doesn't matter to me, he could easily have been carrying one where the cops can't easily see. These cops are on the street dealing with idiots every day. You don't wanna get shot, don't get your neighbors to call the police reporting you carrying a cocked gun and be aware that if someone does call the cops you let the cops see very easily that you don't have a gun. Otherwise you are fair game. Kudos to the cop for plinking him in the head and not hurting the baby. The guy was an idiot for provoking the situation and for endangering his child. Darwin at work, let's just hop the baby was an evolved form of grandpa.

The article says, "Police said that as a former member of the SWAT team, Peters had been involved in the department's most dangerous assignments and that all of the previous shootings had been found to be justified."

It also said, "We have a neighbor out here that pulled a gun on us," the caller said. "He's got a baby in his arms. He's got a gun, and he cocked it."

Sounds to me like it was justified. He probably put the gun down when the police showed up, but they thought he had something in his hand and shot him. One less POS on the planet.

Execute the cop with a single shot to the head.

I lived in AZ for ten years, These cops love to shoot people. What an @!$%# to shoot a man with a small child. $ cops and one shoots to kill. This jerk has probably shoot more people in 10 years than most cops shoot in a career. Some one with a rock on his shoulder. This is what the military gives us when done with them, hey @!$%# you are not in the service anymore.

Here are a few questions I would like to know the answers to:

1. Where were the parents of the nine-month-old?

2. When the *(&^% will Arizona come up with strict gun laws? Gabrielle Giffords shooting wasn't enough? Lunatics like this guy get to walk around with "several weapons" in the home? Oh, an remember Arizona has the right to carry concealed weapons for EVERYONE.

3. Were all the shootings this cop had from the SWAT team? Or just the majority? If from the SWAT team, that would change this reporting significantly. If not, there would seem to be a large problem brewing. Remember, this man is an officer of the law and charged with carrying a firearm to "protect and serve". On SWAT, that could easily entail killing whereas by being a police officer he may not have to pull his weapon nearly as often.

Once again, the headline is misleading. Only by reading further into the article does the reader gain further knowledge and even then, not all the information is satisfactorily answered.