During a one-on-one interview with CBS LA, Riverside County Sheriff and California gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco said that he was “shocked” and “embarrassed” by a video that showed one of his department’s SWAT deputies scrolling on a dating app in the midst of a standoff with an armed suspect.
The incident happened during an hours-long standoff after an armed pursuit suspect crashed into a wall near a Jurupa Valley school on April 8.
As the suspect remained barricaded inside of his vehicle, which was surrounded by multiple RSO patrol vehicles and two SWAT team BearCats, CBS LA captured aerial footage of the scene, including the moments that a SWAT deputy appeared to be scrolling through what looked to be a dating app on his cell phone, all while taking cover behind the armored vehicle just feet from the suspect’s car…