HPD Officer Omar Tapia was one of four officers fired for the April 2020 shooting of Nicolas Chavez, after bodycam footage showed Chavez was on the ground and incapacitated when officers fired the final barrage of shots:contentReference[oaicite:32]{index=32}:contentReference[oaicite:33]{index=33}. Tapia was terminated for violating use-of-force policy, but like his colleagues, he was reinstated by an arbitrator in 2022 despite community outrage over Chavez’s death:contentReference[oaicite:34]{index=34}.
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