Vegas cops killed in ambush
We heard yesterday about the shooting in Las Vegas where two police officers were ambushed at Cici’s while getting their lunch. They have been identified as Officers Igor Soldo, 32, and Alyn Beck, 42. Information is still sketchy in regards to the identity and motives of the male and female shooters, although the media is convinced that they are white supremacists.
Witnesses told police one of the shooters yelled “This is the start of a revolution” before shooting the officers. Gillespie later said he could not confirm that.
The shooters then stripped the officers of their weapons and ammunition and badges, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. They then covered the officers with something that featured the Gadsden flag, a yellow banner with a coiled snake above the words, “Don’t tread on Me.”
The flag is named for Christopher Gadsden a Revolutionary War general who designed it. It has recently come back in vogue as an adopted symbol of the American tea party movement.
I’m not sure how they make the leap from the Gadsden Flag to White Supremacists, but there it is.
The Las Vegas Review Journal also reports that someone with a concealed weapon may have tried to stop the duo;
One unconfirmed report is that the two exchanged gunfire with a citizen who was carrying a concealed weapon, and that one of the shooters was injured.
That’s the only mention that I can find of a concealed weapon in the countless news reports, so….
Fox 5 Vegas reports that there may have been a murder/suicide pact involved in the demise of the shooters;
According to Gillespie, arriving officers exchanged fire with the two suspects inside the Walmart. Police said another round of shots were heard in the store that appeared to result in the suspects’ deaths.
Gillespie said the female suspect appeared to have shot the other male suspect before turning a weapon on herself.
Category: Crime
There’s so much misinformation and outright wrong coming out of this story because the media is more interested in pushing an agenda than reporting the facts.
Suffice to say we can no longer count on the MSM to do their jobs on even the most fundamental level.
According to one statement by a neighbor the man was kicked off the Bundy Ranch (assumingly by them)… too crazy even for them, and that says a lot.
RIP, brothers. Yea, I caught it on FB just a few ago. Here we f’ng go again…LVJ leading the way.
When on the job, you must ALWAYS stay in Condition Yellow. The minute you slip into Condition White, you are playing with your life.
I remember many times being in a coffee shop or restaurant with beat partners. I looked at every single person who walked into that place. You never ever know who the one who attacks you might be.
I remember older cops telling me that when they stopped someone, they always considered how they would fight that person for their life.
RIP, brothers.
Arguably this is the way to live your life – Police or not… Every person is responsible for their own safety… To quote Gen. Mathis:
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
The Gadsden Flag part sounds like one of those unconfirmed details that will be found untrue but stil reported as if it was fact. The armed citizen trying to help the officers sounds like it’s true but will be swept under the rug by the MSM because it doesn’t fit their preferred narrative. I’d be willing to bet money that the asswipes who the MSM will try to spin as “right-wing extremists” were actually occutard hippies.
Either way, God be with those officers and their surviving families, and may the sacks of shit who did it burn in hell.
Why is it so hard to believe it is right wing extremists? I realize that the MSM will go right to that theory but given the location, I find it (sadly) all to easy to believe that extreme right anti government types would do this.
Go onto some right wing web sites – hell, go to any more or less mainstream gun blog and you will see lots of hate and vitriol directed at police in general. Certainly it’s a small minority of those on such blogs, but it’s there.
Rest in Peace Officers. Thank you for serving your community and God bless your families now. I agree with the above post. It will be hard to find the truth of this because the spin doctors have already come up to speed on their agendas. It will get blamed on the NRA and gun owners, the Tea Party, the Bundy Ranch fiasco, etc. Everyone except to two turds who “ambushed”, in a cowardly manner two officers instead of facing them in a fair confrontation. Hell for all I know it was two dip shits who thought the low-low prices at WalMart weren’t falling fast enough for them.
To end, it is the Officers and their families I care about. Not these two turds. You can bet your ass though the entire department will be behind finding the root source of turds who planned these killings, if there are even more and not just these two nut jobs, and hopefully without mercy.
Maybe I’m missing it but no where in the quoted text from the article does the writer say that these folks were, or even may be, White Supremacists…unless the writer of this blog is claiming that every American Tea Party member is a white supremacist.
Did the original quoted text get changed?
If I were you, I’d click the link. You know, to the article headlined “Shooters in Metro ambush that left five dead spoke of white supremacy and a desire to kill police”. Your choice, of course, whether you choose to see where I got the idea now that you’ve leveled unfounded allegations about my politics. I would have clicked the link sooner, but that’s just me.
But Jonn, to be fair, this is the kind of incident the MSM, anti-gun types, et al, have been jerking themselves silly to hoping it would happen.
They’ve been wrong every other time up till now, but no matter, they only have to be right once.
This allows them to wrap up the whole “gun nut, racist, teabagger, etc” into one neat little package, which these two fucktards handed them on a silver platter.
Jonn and NHSparky…I truly believe in my heart that when these shootings happen, the die hard anti-gun groups smile and cheer. If not out loud, deep in their hearts. I believe this because to them life is not as valuable as they would have us all think. They have no problem not supporting our troops who die every day. In their minds soldiers get what they deserve. So to, are their thoughts about innocent victims in these cases. They cheer because it adds weight to their agenda. If they truly valued life, as they say, every school in America would have a sign posted stating, “Armed Security on Premises At All Times”. If they truly did value life, as they profess, they would allow every legal, mentally competent American the freedom to own and CC if needed, a weapon for self defense and here’s the kicker, THEIR defense, when they are dining like the these two officers and a nut job walks in with the intent to kill them as well. They won’t stand up in a situation like that and profess, “hey gunman, I’m anti-gun and don’t own one and I am no threat to you”. Why? Because they would be the first ones dead. No, they will be shivering under a table, hoping and praying that either, the police will save them or, here it comes again…someone in there has a weapon and can stop this lunatic before THEIR whimpering, sorry asses are shot. I believe their agenda is far more important to the than life. And if the cost of furthering that agenda is dead kids, dead Law Enforcement Officers, dead anybody…except them of course, then so be it. Sounds hard and harsh but it is my true belief about, not all of them, but the hardened anti-gun agenda segment of our society.
Who cares what political leanings these fucking scumbags had? All that matters is that they were a couple of cowardly, cop-killing assholes, and are now dead. Let the left play political games with the tragedy; we should just stick with the facts as they are known.
“One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.” — Arthur Koestler
Hayabusa…I don’t know if you were replying to me or the thread. If it was me, then perhaps I did not write well what I intended to say. If that is the case just disregard my post and consider it my inadequacy of getting thoughts through fingers onto paper. No harm, no foul I hope.
Maybe im I’m wrong, but I heard that every time we click a link, a fake CPO strangles a kitten.
That, and another innocent block of cheese dies in the mouth of a giant land-dwelling Human Blobfish!!
Does anyone want to bet a bottle of Makers Mark that one or both of the shooters were “Prohibited Persons”? Misfits like these two are rarely squeaky clean. Something tells me that they have had extensive contact with the cops and the courts, and perhaps the prison system as well. Our lakewood Cop killer was on parole for murder at the time of his police ambush.
Same deal with the shitbag coward gang member who shot an SDPD officer in the back of the head outside a McDonald’s in San Diego a year or two back. By all accounts the murdered cop was a model officer and all-around good dude. The queef-stain coward murderer had a rap sheet longer than my leg, and couldn’t be more of a turd if he was born in a toilet bowl. Of course he got his gun and ammo the same way he got his drugs, but we already knew that.
Roger – no takers. That’s a fool’s bet.
I live in vegas and i heard about this last night. The thing that sickens me is some ignorant carls are on the facebook page saying the cops got what they deserved. Their opinion is based on the fact they got pulled over one too many times. And currently the rumor is that the shooters were meth addicts. Believe me when i say that makes more sense around here than white supremacists…
judging from this article, they were white supremacists and meth addicts:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/couple-accused-killing-las-vegas-cops-civilian-white-supremacist-meth-heads-authorites-article-1.1822387
GDContractor, sorry about the kittens.