Two Officers Shot Dead At Topeka Grocery Store

WIBW.com ^ | December 16, 2012

[rdl6989]

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-- Police confirmed Sunday night that two officers were shot while responding to reports of a suspicious vehicle at a Dillons grocery store in central Topeka.

Three officers responded to 1400 SW Huntoon St. on reports of a suspicious vehicle sometime after 6:09 p.m.

While details of what transpired when the officers arrived on scene were not immediately released, police confirmed that two of the three officers responding were shot.

At 8:30 p.m. Topeka Police said that both officers sustained life-threatening injuries.

Following the shooting, officers from multiple law enforcement agencies responded. The parking lot of the Dillons store was roped off as a crime scene.

Authorities surrounded a home in the 400 block of Buchanan in Topeka Sunday during the 8 p.m. hour, where two suspects connected to the shooting were believed to be.

A SWAT team was on scene.

[rdl6989]

Police helicopter has been circling downtown Topeka all evening and at two intersections are shut down by the police as of right now as they search for the shooter.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I guess we’re real close to going to dictatorial rule to stop all of the violence. Complete loss of freedom. Freedom is the freedom to....

[TomServo]

Looks like the cop haters on FR got an early Christmas present.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Looks like the cop haters on FR got an early Christmas present.

Watch your mouth (pen). No need to generalize what a minority have written to the general population. Thank you.

[Revolting cat!]

Evidently, these cops hated dogs!

[JRandomFreeper]

Who wants anyone killed?

You got issues.

/johnny

[rdl6989]

The police have surrounded a building at 12th and Topeka Blvd.

[Sherman Logan]

He addressed the cop haters, not the general population.

Any reasonable person would agree there are some on FR who are not, shall we say, LEO-friendly. Sometimes with good reason.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm pro-life. I'm anti official corruption. Does that make me a cop hater?

/johnny

[2ndDivisionVet]

Amish gang members, I presume?

[JRandomFreeper]

Prayers up for the families.

/johnny

[RC one]

wait until they’re standing at your front door waiting for you to hand over your weapons. We’ll see how LEO friendly folks are then.

[G Larry]

“The witness said he heard three gun clips emptied- then heard another series of shots.”

Really?

How many shots is that?

Is that 45 shots from three 15 round MAGAZINES?

Or, 21 shots from three 7 round magazines?

[rdl6989]

The suspect is a 22 year old American Indian and he’s no stranger to the police.

[Gene Eric]

>> Looks like the cop haters on FR got an early Christmas present.

On another thread, someone slandered Catholics because the Pope spoke out against “gay marriage”.

[popdonnelly]

Troll.

[smokingfrog]

Must be shooting an M1 Garand.

[Jet Jaguar]

Really?

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks for making my point. Which is that there are people on FR who are anti-cop.

I am not addressing whether this attitude is justified or not.

[brent13a]

Who wants anyone killed?

The post was self-explanatory.
However, I'll break it down:
A goodly majority of 'Freepers' like to take the easy road and assume that the 0.5%-1.0% of bad police officers define all police officers.
Secondly, (and most importantly) a goodly majority of 'Freepers' like to assume, with no good reason, that local and county police are the same as Federal Police in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
These goodly majority of Freepers then make overt and disparaging remarks that lead many to assume that these Freepers would wish ill will on all local police.
The police-hating on FreeRepublic can be very disconcerting, when considering the amount of police<-->public interactions that happen any given day (probably upwards of 200,000 plus interactions per day) and only 0.5% to 1.0% of those interactions result in anything remotely "unlawful" being done by the police officer.
FreeRepublic s full of conservatives whom complain about being stereotyped as gun-toting, bible-thumping, preppers.....yet turn around and hypocritically assume that all city & county police are slaves of the federal government and are no different than Iranian Secret Police.

On a side note:
The biggest cop-hating "boogie-man story" that gets spit out lately seems to be that local and county police will somehow be empowered to go doo-to-door and confiscate legally owned guns. What utter poppycock nonsense. The Federal Government already doesn't trust local law enforcement, why in the world would they give them such a task when obviously federal police and military would be required to do such a thing.
As a police officer in a medium-sized city department I know of no officer whom swears allegiance to the almighty federal government, nor do I know of any of us or county or state police that would stand by and assist a federal overthrow of the US Constitution.
Local and County police are given their law enforcement powers by their respective cities and counties NOT by the federal government. The FBI, DEA, DHS, SS, etc has no command and control over local and county police....they can't roll in and tell us what to do specifically in the context of some sort of federal take over of our rights and constitution.

But ultimately, it's easiest for the weak-minded and conspiracy theorists to assign their fears to those they see most (local police are seen the most and therefore become the Federal Boogie Man). Any position of authority automatically means they are evil to those that can't take the time to learn how to differentiate between things.
There's a lot of FreeRepublic "Conservatives" that chose to believe their ill-thought assumptions as opposed to try to learn the truth or even better yet....get a grasp on common sense.