生存者 of 試みる／企てるd '自殺 by 警官，（賞などを）獲得する' thanks Reno officers
RENO, Nev. (AP) ― The 砲火 had the makings for 論争 when three white police officers 発射 a 黒人／ボイコット man 多重の times last year in a downtown Reno casino parking garage.
The trio of Reno officers said Arthur Richardson Jr. pointed his gun at them while he 示唆するd he 手配中の，お尋ね者 them to kill him.
But Richardson didn't die after they 解雇する／砲火／射撃d their 9mm revolvers a total of 14 times.
This December 2015 photo 供給するd by the Nevada Department of 是正s shows Arthur Richardson Jr., The 砲火 had th e makings for 論争 when three police officers 発射 at Richardson 多重の times last year in a downtown Reno, Nev., casino parking garage. The trio of Reno officers said Richardson Jr. pointed his gun at them and made comments 示唆するing he 手配中の，お尋ね者 them to kill him. (Nevada Department of 是正s 経由で AP)
In fact, they ended up helping save his life, and he later わびるd for putting them in the "不安定な position of doing what they had to do."
The unusual 結果 in a いわゆる 試みる／企てるd "自殺 by 警官，（賞などを）獲得する" 広げるs in a 40-page investigative 報告（する）／憶測 （疑いを）晴らすing the officers last week of any 悪事を働くこと in the June 2015 狙撃. Casino 監視 ビデオ shows Richardson pull a .45 caliber handgun from his waist 禁止（する）d and point it at police, their guns drawn 20 feet away with bystanders nearby.
Officer Wesley Leedy, a six-year 退役軍人 of the 軍隊, said in an interview his partner once 発射 a 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う, but he'd never 本人自身で pulled the 誘発する／引き起こす. Moments later, the ex-ヘリコプター 操縦する for an Army 国家の Guard medivac 部隊 that served in Afghanistan experienced another "first."
"I have 適用するd first 援助（する） to 射撃 犠牲者s 非常に／多数の times, but it was the first time I 適用するd first 援助（する） to a 射撃 負傷させる I 本人自身で 原因（となる）d," Leedy told The Associated 圧力（をかける）.
The officers 答える／応じるd to the scene after Richardson pointed a gun at another man's 長，率いる. When he 辞退するd to 従う with 多重の 命令（する）s to show his 手渡すs and get on the ground, they 結局 解雇する／砲火／射撃d until Richardson 崩壊（する）d, the 報告（する）／憶測 said.
Officer Aaron Flickinger kicked his gun away and Officer Christopher Good 手錠d him as some in a （人が）群がる of onlookers became agitated.
"It was 明らかな they did not 認可する of what we had just done and made i t very 井戸／弁護士席 known," Leedy said.
As the other officers 静かなd the （人が）群がる and Richardson slipped in and out of consciousness, Leedy un-cuffed him and 始めるd first 援助（する）. によれば the investigative 報告（する）／憶測, Richardson asked, "What are you doing?"
Leedy told Richardson he was "putting 圧力 on your 負傷させる." He said Richardson 答える／応じるd, "Just let me die."
"I'll never forget that," Leedy told AP on Monday.
Richardson later told 探偵，刑事s from his hospital bed they were "good guys." A nurse said Richardson told her he 手配中の，お尋ね者 police to shoot him because he "手配中の，お尋ね者 to die" but "was too afraid to do it myself."
In その後の 声明s to police, Richardson ― who was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 共謀 to commit 殺人 in 2000 ― said he knew he'd "be in big trouble because I'm a felon."
"My 意向s weren't to 傷つける anybody. My 意向s were to not go to 刑務所，拘置所," he said. "So I chose for them to kill me, and 明白に that part didn't work."
Richardson pleaded 有罪の to 多重の 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, 含むing 強襲，強姦 with a deadly 武器 upon an officer and felon in 所有／入手 of a firearm. He わびるd in December before 裁判官 Janet Berry 宣告，判決d him to six years in 刑務所，拘置所.
"Words can't 表明する the 悔恨 or 悔いる I feel for the intolerable 行為／法令／行動するs that put me here and for the police that I 尊敬（する）・点 that I put in the 不安定な position of doing what they had to do given their profession," Richardson said.
"Whether it was self-loathing, self-pity, or 不景気, the sort of 偉業／利用するs that were going through my mind that night don't excuse my 活動／戦闘s," he said. "自殺 by 警官，（賞などを）獲得する is not only a vulgar 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, it's a vulgar idea."
Leedy said he was glad it was proven to be "a good 狙撃."
Officers ますます 直面する "堅い （人が）群がるs" quick to 裁判官 their 活動／戦闘s, he said. He remembers 存在 welcomed home from Afghanistan as "a hero, no 事柄 what I had done."
"But then, when I take off that uniform and put on a blue uniform, it doesn't 事柄 what I do or what life-saving 成果／努力s I 供給する on a daily basis, many people believe we are truly 人種上 動機づけるd and corrupt," he said. "I hope this helps show there are good officers in this town trying to make a difference."
