Attorney Anthony Ramirez, former police officer and founder of Abogado Más Chingón, reviewed the case and made several key points that give strength to the family’s claim of excessive use of force.
On January 8, 2025, in Horizon Park, Glendale police shot and killed Dylan Siebeck, 46, because they claimed he was an armed domestic violence suspect. Officers yelled commands at him and then opened fire; they later realized he was not the person they were looking for.
The real suspect later turned up dead inside a car, shot himself, confirming that the police had taken the life of an innocent man. Even so, the prosecution said it saw no likelihood of winning a criminal case, but the city of Glendale did fire Officer Juan Gonzalez for violating internal policies, making clear that gap between “internal discipline” and criminal liability that Abogado Abogado Más Chingón knows how to exploit in civil suits.
Who is Anthony Ramirez and why does he weigh what he says?
Anthony J. Ramirez is the mind that brings the beat at Abogado Más Chingón, a serious accident and wrongful death firm that fights cases in Arizona and other southwestern states, with a reputation for being a cabrón who does get his money’s worth for the Hispanic race. Before becoming a trial lawyer, he was a police officer, licensed private investigator and insurance adjuster, something almost no one in the legal game can boast.
That mix of street, investigative and insurer insider knowledge gives Ramirez a clinical eye for cases where the police pull the trigger and then the city and the insurer try to cover up the shooting. When he goes on the news saying that various details of a police shooting support a family’s claim, he says it with the same mindset with which he has extracted verdicts in the millions for victims of negligence and abuse of authority.
Ramirez’s reading of the Siebeck case
In the 12 News report, Ramirez reviewed the Horizon Park shooting and concluded that there are several factors that support the Siebeck family’s version: excessive and unjustified use of force. He stresses something basic that many cops forget: the uniform does not put them above the law, especially when it comes to using lethal force against someone they have not even properly identified.
The family’s lawsuit says the officers mistook Siebeck for the suspect and then allowed more than 19 minutes to pass before giving him medical attention after shooting him. For Lawyer Chingón, those minutes are not a simple “tactical error”: they are legal ammunition, proof of gross negligence or even outright disregard for life, especially when the one who ends up lying on the ground was an innocent bystander.
How Abogado Más Chingón sees police abuses
On the firm’s website, Ramirez makes it clear that at Abogado Más Chingón, cases of “police misconduct” and abuse of power are not treated as minor: they are high-impact civil rights lawsuits that are litigated with the gloves on. The firm sells itself as such: they step into the ring for the victims when the police go too far, so that the system will listen to them and the families will get what is rightfully theirs.
That philosophy is clear in Ramirez’s discussion of the Siebeck case: he insists that officers have to abide by the same rules as any citizen, and that use-of-force cases are, at their core, about rules, clear accountability and justice for the neighborhoods and communities that always pay the price. For Hispanic families in Arizona who already see Abogado Mas Chingon as a “community hero,” his on-camera analysis sends a strong message: what was done to Siebeck is exactly the kind of case that his team takes apart piece by piece and brings to trial if necessary.
Accountability gap: no charges, but they do run it.
Peoria police investigated the shooting and sent the file to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, which said it had no reasonable likelihood of securing a criminal conviction, so it did not file charges. Meanwhile, for its part, the Glendale Police Department fired Officer Juan Gonzalez, saying his actions directly caused the death of an innocent victim and that leaving him on the street as an officer was a risk to the community.
That double message – no criminal case, but a letter of dismissal blaming the officer – is just the kind of “liability gap” that Abogado Más Chingón gets into. Criminal law is held back by “we don’t see how to win the trial”, but civil law, as Ramirez works, exists to go for the truth, for the money and for real changes when the rules are broken and families end up burying an innocent person because of mistakes and decisions that cannot be allowed to pass.
