Posted on 03/28/2015 10:45:25 AM PDT by Steelfish
Decorated Boston Police Officer in Coma After 'Unprovoked' Shooting Mar 28, 2015 By EMILY SHAPIRO
A Boston police officer was shot during a motor vehicle stop in Roxbury on March 27, 2015. ABC News
A police officer decorated for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing remains in critical condition in a medically induced coma after he was shot in the face during a traffic stop, the city's police commissioner said today.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans called the shooting of Officer John Moynihan on Friday night "unprovoked." He and five other officers had pulled over a driver in Roxbury, Massachusetts, when the driver began firing at the officers, according to police.
The officers hadn't drawn their guns when the driver began shooting, said Evans. As the officers chased after him, the driver continued to fire, emptying his revolver as he ran.
The officers later shot the driver, who died on scene, police said. Evans identified him as Angelo West, 41, adding that he had a violent criminal past.
"No one had any indication of what might happen," said the police commissioner. "He shot the officer point blank in the face."
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Some of this might also be overexcited/warped news coverage.
Really. . .ya’think?
The MSM would never do such a thing.
/sarc.
More like standard operating procedure in Roxbury. Rough place.
The solution might be for the ‘black community’ to stop backing their lowlife thuggy men.
Roxbury is not a nice place ....the residents are animals for the most part. Are any of you freepers familiar with or ever been there? Sad sad place, beyond redemption with its current populous.
If you shoot a cop, it's unlikely they will want to risk an "OJ Jury" letting you loose, or you spending decades waiting for execution like Mumia. They will have little interest in taking you alive.
That’s the NJ solution; considering the density of the population, we have few encounters between cops & thugs (unless they leave the anarchy zone).
“He was a good boy—a very good boy” Every perps mom.
To those out of the Boston area, this is a little audio clip that Howie Carr plays when he does reports on criminal behavior. These are the actual words of the mother of an actual perp who was killed in the line of his criminal duties.
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