WATCH: Parents Ask Police for Help Finding Missing Son, Cops Find Him, Try to Kill Him

Phoenix, AZ — When Antonio Garcia-Goff went missing in July, the family turned to the only ones they could think of for help, the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office (MCSO). They claim to have attempted to file a missing persons police report but when police found Goff, instead of returning him to his family, one officer attempted to kill him.

Officer George Davis, 45, a 17-year veteran of the MCSO, made contact with Goff who was reportedly asleep at the wheel of his white Toyota Camry in the Moon Valley neighborhood of Phoenix. After waking Goff, Davis’ body camera began recording.

Davis asked Goff for his identification who said he didn’t have any, but then the officer noticed Goff had a stun gun and a knife on the passenger front seat of his vehicle. Both weapons arguably posed little threat to the officer, were probably there for personal protection, and Goff promptly apologized saying, “I’m sorry.”

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Davis then demanded Goff exit the vehicle, but Goff chose to disobey the officer’s orders. For unknown reasons, Goff rolled up his tinted windows and began to drive away. Davis can be seen in the body camera, positioning himself in front of Goff’s vehicle, and at an angle so that he was not directly in front of the fleeing car.

As Goff was speeding away, Davis opened fire, sending four rounds into the front windshield, and two into the rear of the car. The rounds were misplaced and the young man was not hit but was in fear for his life. After driving away from the scene, he abandoned his vehicle and hid in the backyard of a nearby residence.

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Police set up a perimeter and began to go house to house, searching for the fugitive. After they located him, they sicced their attack dog on him, subduing him in the process but injuring him as well.

After they took him into custody and learned his identity, they charged him with felonious aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon or instrument (his vehicle) and one count of trespassing (a misdemeanor). Goff did not hit Davis during his escape, and did not hit any other officer, he only clipped a police SUV in his attempt to get away from the man pointing a gun and firing his weapon at him as he tried to end the young man’s life, what Davis would likely call a “threat.”

As TFTP has consistently reported, police will often jump in front of vehicles in an attempt to stop a fleeing suspect. Then, they can claim in court that they “feared for their lives” and had to open fire on the individual. However, many juries are simply not accepting that rationale as an excuse for taking someone’s life in the line of duty. They are now handing out guilty verdicts to police officers who make such claims and proceed to kill people who pose no real threats to their safety.

Davis may have known he had acted impulsively. While the body camera was still recording, Davis yelled an expletive and asked himself, “What did I do?” Possibly as a means to keep his fellow police officers from executing the young man when they located him, he made sure to radio in to dispatch with the fact that no police officer was injured in Goff’s attempt to flee the scene.

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During Goff’s arraignment, he was given a bond of $15,000 but it is unclear if he has bonded out of jail or is still awaiting his day in court. We reached out to his mother for comment but we have not yet heard from her. We will update the story as more information becomes available.

His mother, Audra Goff Wardle, started a Change.org petition, demanding police be held accountable for what she perceived to be the attempted murder of her son. At the time of the petition’s creation, she believed her son to be unarmed, something the body camera footage revealed to be inaccurate.

However, both weapons were not being held by Goff at the time Davis shot at him. His only mistake was that he was not 100 percent compliant with Davis’ commands, something rational individuals may conclude should not carry a death sentence. To date, there have been 49 officer-involved shootings in Arizona, with the majority of those occurring in the Phoenix area.

Soros Drops Millions To 'Rig' Justice System In Arizona

As we recently noted, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into presidential and congressional elections in the United States it can be difficult, even for mega donors like George Soros, to truly understand how much influence is being "bought."  That"s why Soros is pursuing a new strategy to dump millions into the campaigns of local district attorneys, a position which "exercises the greatest discretion and power in the system."  So far, Soros has funneled $3 million into seven local DA races over the past year but his support is "expected to intensify in the next few years, thanks to longer-term planning and candidate recruitment."  In general, Soros looks to fund progressive DAs running on platforms to "reduce racial disparity in sentencing" and support prison "diversion programs" for drug offenders instead of trials that could result in jail time.

And now it appears, as Politico"s Scott Bland reports, Soros" efforts to "reshape the American justice system" are accelerating as the billionaire has contributed $2 million to a group working to defeat Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, the latest target of Soros’ big spending in local law enforcement campaigns over the past year.

The Soros-funded PAC, Maricopa Strong, will file campaign finance documents Friday showing Soros’ multi-million dollar investment against Arpaio, along with $500,000 from Texas energy billionaires Laura and John Arnold and $250,000 from Laurene Powell Jobs (the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs). The group had previously reported a $300,000 donation from Soros, one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors.

Soros has spent millions in 2015 and 2016 funding campaigns to defeat local prosecutors around the country and elect new ones who back criminal justice reform measures. Soros-backed groups are currently spending big in three big-city district attorney races: Houston’s Harris County, where Soros has contributed over $1 million, according to local campaign finance filings; Gilpin and Jefferson counties outside Denver, where Soros has given about $1.5 million to unseat an incumbent; and Phoenix’s Maricopa County, where a Soros-funded PAC has also spent over $1 million against the Republican district attorney, Bill Montgomery.

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But, as Bland points out, Soros’ spending against Arpaio, a high-profile liberal bogeyman, is his single biggest investment in a local race this year, as well as the billionaire’s first effort against a sheriff. It folds in immigration reform, another policy passion of Soros’, alongside criminal justice reform.

Arpaio made his name in Arizona and nationally as an opponent of illegal immigration. He was charged by federal prosecutors last month with contempt of court for violating an order to halt discriminatory policing practices.

Maricopa Strong has spent $2.9 million in the sheriff’s race, with the donations from Soros and others funding a flurry of mailers and TV ads boosting Democratic candidate Paul Penzone and hammering Arpaio. Soros has typically been the sole funder of his local outside-spending campaigns around the country, though Jobs and the Arnolds joined him in funding Maricopa Strong.

“Rapes, assaults, even child molestation remained uninvestigated while Arpaio focuses on his personal agenda,” the narrator says in one of the group’s TV ads. “Arpaio talks tough, but he doesn’t keep us safe.”

Arpaio’s campaign has attacked Soros’ efforts, calling him a “far-left globalist,” saying he is trying to buy a local race, and alleging that his group has broken disclosure rules, per the Arizona Republic.

“We made a major investment in the effort to defeat Joe Arpaio for two reasons,” said Michael Vachon, a Soros spokesperson. “First, Joe Arpaio has been a stain on the justice system in Arizona for more than two decades, violating civil rights and abusing his office. Second, his influence on the national conversation about immigration has been poisonous. This election is an opportunity to send a message: when matched on an even playing field, the values of justice and inclusion will defeat the politics of fear-mongering and intolerance."

That said, we"re sure any objections to George"s plan is derived from a simple misunderstanding of his motives.  After all, last time someone said he wanted to "fundamentally transform" America it worked out pretty well, right?