Jara standoff: Police feared county supervisor’s husband wanted officers to shoot him

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – It must have been a bizarre scene at around midday Saturday in the tree-lined east Bakersfield neighborhood, with a police SWAT unit, a county mental health team, and a distraught family worried that their loved one would be hurt – or hurt someone else.

Either or both scenarios seemed entirely possible at the time. These domestic standoffs are not uncommon, but two things set this incident apart.

One of them being, the man at the center of attention has professed, not without credible evidence, that he is a former CIA asset who had the skill to kill…

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