Police under fire

| December 29, 2014

Two LA police officers were attacked in a manner similar to the two NYPD officers who were killed a few days ago according to KTLA;

The officers from the LAPD’s 77th Division were responding to an unrelated radio call Sunday around 9:30 p.m. on Hoover Street near 66th Street (map) when two men allegedly opened fire on their patrol car, according to Los Angeles Police Department Detective Megan Aguilar.

Several rounds were shot in the direction of the officers, LAPD Capt. Lillian Carranza said.

“This was a completely unprovoked attack,” she added.

One of the officers returned fire toward the alleged gunmen, but it was not immediately clear whether either was hit.

Neither officer was injured.

On the other side of the country, in Durham, North Carolina, another officer narrowly escaped injury in the same manner, according to ABC11;

A department spokesperson said Officer J.T. West was sitting in his marked patrol car working on a report when he saw two suspicious men coming up from behind his car near an abandoned apartment building.

West got out of his car to speak to the men, but before he could say a word, one of them pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired six shots at the officer. One of the bullets struck the police vehicle.

West returned fire, getting off two shots as he ran for cover across the street. West dove behind a staircase in the abandoned apartment complex, injuring his wrist as he fell.

West called for backup, and a police dog was called in to track the two suspects. The track ended on South Alston Street with no sign of the men.

Police say they don’t know if West’s bullets hit the gunman or the man with him. Area hospitals have been put on alert.

Whether it’s true or not, it seems to me that these gunman think that they have the tacit approval of politicians, if not by words, then by the absence of words. The New York Police Department expressed their displeasure with the politicians by turning their backs on their Mayor DeBlasio when he arrived two hours late for the funeral of Rafael Ramos yesterday – mainly because DeBlasio seems more concerned about protesters than the police.

I’m not sure that I support that the officers turned their backs on the mayor. I mean, I would turn my back on him, but for the police to do it, that seems like a bridge too far. But that’s my opinion.

Anyway, I hope those of you who wear the blue watch your back, because it doesn’t look like any one else will watch it for you.

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Pinto Nag

We live in a society innundated with words. The police turning their back on the mayor was exactly the right way to communicate their displeasure. It was a far more surgical protest than a strike or a case of ‘blue flu,’ in my opinion.

Cowpill

It is OK to shoot at the PO-PO…..Black Lives Matter…….ONLY Black lives….*sarc/off*

streetsweeper

So…lemme see if I have this straight. Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson and their marxist followers that are too busy trying to tear this country down to the ground, openly calling for civil unrest and piss poor attitudes, plus encouraging criminals to attack cops have nothing to do with it?

BUT, NYPD officers and others turning their back to his honah, the communist mayor of NYC are the problem?

OldSargeUSAR

SS: I’d say you nailed it. Good work.

2/17 Air Cav

Welcome to the late 60s. For those of you not yet born, police and fire personnel were targets. False fire alarms were called and false reports were called into police. As they arrived on scene, they would be shot at. Fire departments demanded bulletproof glass and police escorts. Some police departments increased the number of officers in a patrol car and ceased beat walks. The bad old days are back.

OWB

Once was more than enough.

UpNorth

To go along with the two incidents mentioned, two deputies in Pasco County, Florida, were shot at Sunday morning. One deputy claimed he “heard the whizzing” of the rounds. Probably, he heard the ricochet going past his cruiser. http://www.wsj.com/articles/shots-fired-at-sheriffs-deputies-in-florida-1419794179?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second

JimW

As a young white boy from Wisconsin attending school in LA in the 60’s I was unaware of racism until one day. I was introduced to it. In the school yard of all places too. I was hung by the neck on the chin up bars with hands tied behind the back, at recess by my black class mates. I didn’t understand racism till that day. Lucky for me a black teacher came and cut me down. That was the 60’s. Are we going back to this, is this were O bumma is taking this country. Fanning the flames of racism. It’s not the cops enforcing the law causing this. O bumma encouraging people to cause trouble is the problem, color doesn’t matter. Ass-hole is an ass-hole.

propsguy

We really are in a timeslip

Long war
Anti war media
Silly protests over anything
Race Riots
Cop killings

WHat’s next?

Oh GOD NO………………Are they bringing disco back?

I don’t think I could handle that.

JimW

Remember HOT Pants! Far Out Man!

Richard

When was it that we were talking about the “militarization” of the police? If I was a cop I would be jumping up and down, pointing and yelling, “That is why!!”

Will more assholes try to ambush police?

Will cops be more nervous and will that cause more “civilian” shootings?

Is that a vicious circle?

Al Sharpton feeds off racial hatred. When he has a group that he can stand before and get them chanting and tearing up the neighborhood, then he has real power. Is this freedom of speech or incitement to riot?

JohnE

Sigh…all lives matter.

FatCircles0311

It was only a matter of time until the rhetoric and ideology was put into action. This is what fucking America voted for when they voted for a race extortionist commie.

Enjoy it.

Obammy, Mrs. Obammy, and Eric Holder were all communist revolutionaries that took action during college against authority. In Eric “Injustice” Holders him and his black supremacist pals took the ROTC office on campus, armed. Their demands? It be renamed and re-purposed to honor a black supremacist racist.

Deal with the consequences.

Pinto Nag

You’ve said things like this before. Just keep in mind that the people who are paying the consequences now are not the ones who voted for Obama. The ones who did this will NOT be the ones to suffer.