Des Moines area officers ambushed
According to Fox News, two Des Moines police officers were ambushed last night, while we were sleeping.
The shootings came near Des Moines and occurred just 20 minutes apart, according to Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek. One Des Moines police officer and another from the suburb of Urbandale were found in their bullet-riddled cruisers, and at least one was alone.
“There’s somebody out there shooting police. There is a clear and present danger to police officers right now,” Parizek said.
According to “Officer Down Memorial Page” 111 officers have died in the line of duty this year nationwide, also, 29 K9 officers have died. 130 officers died in 2015.
From the Des Moines Register;
For Des Moines, this is the first police officer shot and killed in the line of duty since two officers were gunned down in separate incidents in 1977.
Two Des Moines officers, Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales, also died earlier this year when their vehicle was struck head-on by a wrong-way drunken driver.
This is likely the first Urbandale officer shot in the line of duty,
Category: Crime
Hey cut that out, the dems are always pointing out how much safer we are now that Obama got bin Laden….
Except for the BLM movement, and the illegals, and the imported muzzie terrorists…but yeah things are supposedly looking up.
They have announced a suspect now. Still waiting for them to notify the families of the fallen officers.
http://whotv.com/2016/11/02/suspect-identified-in-murder-of-two-metro-police-officers/
Hopefully they will hunt the murder down and kill him before he does any more harm.
Back to the days of One Adam-12, two officers per patrol vehicle.
“1 Adam-12…1 Adam-12. See the man…”
With budget cuts and perceived safety in newer comm technology, those days of partner riding are gone except in metro areas.
My department used mostly one officer cars since back in the 60’s through today. They doubled the officers up a couple of times, but usually the SOP was one officer cars, except for one 2-
manofficer car in each patrol area, per shift. Except day shift, day shift was usually one officer cars.We’ve got so much electronics that its tough to ride two man cars. Our FTO cars have to be configured so someone can sit down in the passenger seat!
Yeah, there is that, too. The new cars just don’t have the room. Maybe the mid-sized SUVs have the room.
morning news says a black male wearing shorts jumped out of a car, fired several times, possibly with a rifle, got back in the car and drove off. Not specified if he was alone or had a co-driver.
Must need background checks and registration of law-abiding gun owners to stop this nonsense.
Scott Michael Greene is the suspect being sought.
I have a funny feeling this isn’t going to end well for ole Scott. Not well at all.
They say he was arrested with no issue. The report that they were seeking a black male was on Good Morning America…this guy looks pretty pale to me. (Ah well, GMA was inaccurate again…who ever would have guessed?
He’s either a “bright” or self-identifies with BLM?
Wrong!! Try again for $100 David.
Fuck… when will it end? 111 officers and 29 K-9 officer this year? Must be all of that “racial healing” and calming of the waters” that the JEF promised almost eight years ago.
God Bless the fallen officers and their family and friends… and pray that this madness stops soon.
God rest them well and be with their families.
Racial problems are what they are now due to Obama and his crew and nothing else. Whether a Muslim or a black rabble rouser, Obama never met one he didn’t love.
The dude was white, stop watch Fox Noise!!
The best way to end racism is to stop talking about it.
But the Dems (and, honestly, some Repubs) thrive on divisiveness and hate and fear.
Trumps speech last night sounds better and better.
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Just breaks my heart and makes me worry about my former beat partners.
When I was a cop, I got caught like that during a particularly boring part of the shift. Let my mind wander and didn’t watch my six. Guy caught me by surprise. Luckily, he just wanted some info.
Scared the living shit out of me.
Didn’t happen again. Cheap lesson.
This is not a good thing. It seems to be getting worse and worse. My sympathies to the families of these police officers.
It looks like this guy was a bit off and was pissed at police because he was assaulted and had a confederate flag taken from him at a high school football game.
Instead of arresting the thugs who assaulted him they threw him out for causing a disturbance.
The guy is a cowardly fuck for ambushing the cops, but there is no doubt his actions were triggered by the hypocritical actions of the authorities.
If a black man has a black lives matter sign stolen from him and been assaulted at a game the perpetraters would have been arrested on the spot.
A ‘bit off’? How about homicidal maniac?
It almost sounds like you are trying to justify his actions and blame the police here. I hope not.
I won’t address your hypothetical situation, but this guy went to a high school football game, waived a Confederate flag to provoke a reaction (Iowa was a Union state, by the way), and was asked to leave.
The cops were protecting the best interest of the public- the kids deserved to have their game in peace without some idiot inciting a riot.
If this was indeed Greene, then his reaction was indeed cowardly, but it is also capital murder. There is absolutely no justification or ‘trigger’ for what he did. He could have filed a complaint, found a lawyer and sued, written a strongly worded letter to the editor, or run for office. To say that he was’ triggered’ by police officers defusing a situation is to condone his (alleged) violent action.
Don’t try to twist what I said. I said he was a cowardly fuck.
He was the victim of assault and theft, and he was the one targeted by the police.
You are absolutely right, he should have simply filed suit against the police.
However the chances of him getting any redress in courts would have been slim to none.
If the incident had been handled with the kid gloves by the police like they do with BLM people this man probably wouldn’t have snapped.
Instead they basically told him “fuck you, fuck your property, you ARE the problem, not the people who assaulted you”
And, again, it sounds like you’re justifying his actions.
Regardless of his “victim” status, if he created a disturbance at the game, the officers were justified in removing him from the game.
Now, if he was “the victim of assault and theft”, and neither crime was a felony, the officers could take his report, attempt to identify the assailants and have the victim follow through and see that a warrant was issued for their arrest. Unless they witnessed the crimes, which it appears, they did not.
He was NOT a victim. He was a bully. Bullies do things to provoke other people so that they can holler ‘victim!!!!’ about themselves.
He was NOT a victim, nor did he ‘snap’.
What a terrible way to wake up and find out that two officers have been murdered in the city that I live in. My prayers go out to the officers and their families.
They have not released the names of the officers yet, however they have released some more information about the suspect: http://whotv.com/2016/11/02/suspect-in-officers-murders-posted-run-in-with-police-two-weeks-ago/
If I can get any more information on this, I will post it in the comments here.
Just a warning……apparently the suspect posted a video of him being escorted from a local high school stadium two weeks ago by the police. He was standing holding a flag during the National Anthem and created a bit of an issue.
Apparently he had the gall to have a US flag and a Confederate flag.
If he had chosen to kneel and shit on a flag the people that assaulted him would have probably cheered
“Rumored racists should be placed on terrorist no-gun-buy lists” in 3…2…
From a Des Moines Register reporter;
Got it, the people around him shouldn’t have hit him and taken his flag away… but their actions in no way justified his, and your attempts to focus on those elements really says a lot about what you think is important here.
Let’s please not pretend that it was the US flag that provoked his attack. This is a man with a history of racist threats waving a Confederate flag in front of (until then) peaceful protestors with the obvious intent of provoking some sort of disturbance. At a high school football game.
I don’t know if Greene had gall, but if he’s a true Iowan he certainly wasnt waving the Confederate flag as a nod to his heritage, in that Iowa was a Union state during the war.
Of course, flying or displaying the flag of a nation created specifically to Provoke a war with the US never seemed very patriotic to me… but then I am a Connecticut Yankee raised in Texas, so a lot of this stuff never made sense to me.
This is the thing that bothers me when people get to lambasting police. What happened here, it seems, is that the shooter certainly knew he shot one officer when he came upon another who was unaware of the shooting. So, he shot him, too, probably not knowing that P/O #2 was unaware of the first shooting. My point is that a P/O never knows what he’s coming up against during an encounter. Do I suggest that each encounter should be treated as a felony stop with a firearm drawn? No, not at all, but when there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator of a reported crime may still be at the scene, a drawn firearm is always appropriate. And, yes, I am referring to the so-called police raid on Alex Horton. Some things I never get over, and that’s one that still irks me.
Statistically of course this isn’t much different than any other year where about 140 officers are killed per year…from 2006 to 2015 there were about 1400 officers killed in that ten year span.
It’s not a good thing, but it’s not anything out of the ordinary. Cops get killed, it’s part of the job. Somewhere around 4500 people a year are killed on the job…140 represents less than 3% of those deaths. Less than 10% of those 4500 deaths are homicides. Police have a dangerous job, no doubt. But it’s hardly an epidemic of death, nor is it in the top ten of deaths by occupation.
We probably shouldn’t panic too much at this point.
VOV,
I will have to respectfully disagree with your comment of “Cops get killed, it’s part of the job.”
When a cop is killed that represents a direct attack against society.
Society has laws to govern and officers are sworn to uphold the law and protect society.
Again my disagreement with your comment is respectful. Discussions in a respectful manner seem to solve lot problems.
Ocean12 no worries about offending me, I’m relatively thick skinned at this point in my life.
What I meant by that is cops have been killed regularly as part of their job, death comes with service. Back in the 1930s over 300 officers were killed a year, and there were less officers. Less are killed now than in those days.
Of course their killing is an attack on society, robbing a bank is an attack on society as is murdering a co-worker. It’s why the state prosecutes these crimes. Some would have you believe there’s some sort of epidemic of police deaths, that’s not the case. The police being the direct target of the attack is a new angle, but the police represent the enforcement face of the government. As such they are the front line of the government and the actions that government takes. Consequently they also represent the first line of attack of those who would express their violent displeasure with the government.
Too bad he wasn’t killed while surrendering, I’m not attempting to justify the man’s actions as they are reprehensible at every level. My point was simply that there’s no epidemic at work here. Several hundred officers targeted and killed would be an epidemic a few dozen, while tragic, are not.
I think that its not a raw number issue, or even % that is disturbing.
I think it’s always been accepted that we would lose LEOs who confronted armed suspects committing crimes.
In my opinion what is disturbing is the number of LEOs we are losing who were actually the TARGET of the criminal.
Its not the LEO who walks in on a robbery or pulls over a desparate armed felon during a traffic stop.
Its the ones that are killed by someone whose sole intention was to kill a cop.
Yes, JAOD, that is the most significant distinction. Being hit by drunk driver or being killed by a bad guy who doesn’t want to be Mirandized for the 34th time is different in kind from being assassinated because one is a police officer. Sure, other jobs (e.g., taxi driver) carry risk of death due to crime but the object isn’t to kill the person but to get the person’s money or other property.
They are reporting that the suspect has been taken into custody: http://whotv.com/2016/11/02/suspect-in-officers-murders-taken-into-custody/
Here’s more info:
‘Police capture suspect in separate ambush-style attacks that killed 2 Iowa officers’
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/02/2-iowa-police-officers-killed-in-apparent-ambush-attacks.html
The suspect’s mother was arrested for assaulting him a few weeks ago: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/02/suspect-in-iowa-cop-deaths-was-assaulted-by-mother.html
Sorry to see he was captured–alive.
Yeah, bummer that he’s still wasting oxygen!
They have released the names of the officers: http://www.kcci.com/article/breaking-two-officers-shot-overnight/8089441
Well another case in point of a failed presidency
Let’s not forget TARP Money here well spent
I’m glad my brother is retired. But I still have a lot of friends serving as LEOs in different areas.
There is a reason that divorces among LEOs and military are so high. It’s a job that can jade you pretty fast.
God damn this bastard!