HPD Officer Patrick Rubio was also involved in the fatal shooting of Nicolas Chavez in 2020 and was fired after Chief Acevedo determined the 21 shots fired at the incapacitated Chavez were “not objectively reasonable”:contentReference[oaicite:30]{index=30}. Rubio, along with three colleagues, was terminated for excessive force in Chavez’s death, though an arbitrator later overturned the firings and ordered Rubio reinstated in 2022:contentReference[oaicite:31]{index=31}.
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