{"id":68438,"date":"2025-12-02T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:03:07","slug":"prosecutors-play-emotional-video-in-death-penalty-phase-for-hollywood-police-officers-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68438\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors play emotional video in death penalty phase for Hollywood police officer\u2019s killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM<\/p>\n<p>Emotional surveillance footage played in penalty phase for officer&#8217;s killer <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The death penalty phase is now underway for a 22-year-old man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/27\/broward-prosecutors-man-accused-in-2021-hollywood-police-officers-murder-of-changes-plea-to-guilty\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/27\/broward-prosecutors-man-accused-in-2021-hollywood-police-officers-murder-of-changes-plea-to-guilty\/\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to shooting and killing a Hollywood police officer in 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/02\/fase-de-pena-de-muerte-inicia-para-el-asesino-de-un-policia-de-hollywood-fiscales-presentan-video-conmovedor\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/02\/fase-de-pena-de-muerte-inicia-para-el-asesino-de-un-policia-de-hollywood-fiscales-presentan-video-conmovedor\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jason Banegas, then 18, shot and killed Officer Yandy Chirino, 28, on Oct. 17, 2021 as he responded to a suspicious person call in the 4000 block of North Hills Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Broward County court on Tuesday, prosecutors played surveillance video from when Chirino\u2019s best friend, Detective Manuel Rodriguez-Blevins, found Chirino fighting with Banegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another clip showed an officer falling to his knees, throwing his hat and crying hysterically. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodriguez-Blevins couldn\u2019t stop crying when asked about his best friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Banegas sat stone cold in the courtroom as the video played, showing no emotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His defense was set to present its case later on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM Updated:\u00a0December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM Emotional surveillance footage played in penalty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-68438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}