Posted on 01/04/2022 10:42:05 AM PST by allen592
Illinois police sergeant Marlene Rittmanic was begging for her life moments before she was shot dead with her own firearm by a gunman in a hotel last week, according to documents obtained by Fox News.
On Monday, Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe said in court that Sgt. Rittmanic was pleading with the suspects at the time Sullivan fired the fatal shots into her. Sgt. Rittmanic was begging the suspects to just leave, saying ‘you don’t have to do this, please just go, please don’t please don’t.’ She was desperately pleading for her life.”
On December 29, 49-year-old Bradley police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and her 27-year-old partner, Officer Tyler Bailey, were shot while responding to a noise complaint regarding barking dogs that were left in a vehicle at Comfort Inn Hotel along a highway in Kankakee County.
Who said I expected her to manhandle these pukes? That’s why she had the weapon! Why didn’t she use it?
Ah, no wonder Gayle King isn’t talking about this.
They let their guard down despite all the warning signs.
Makes no sense. When you’re partner’s down shouldn’t you then be opening fire? Unreal. RIP.
Due process and equal protection exist for a good reason.
Yep. Stupid idea.
In book The Onion Field there’s a fairly extensive discussion about police officers take on when or when not to give up up their firearm. It’s a very polarizing topic and a good book written by Joseph Wambaugh.
She ran away after her partner was shot? Why didn’t she unload on the perp when her partner was shot? Something’s not right. Maybe she should not have been a cop. Running away is not what a partner does.
NO DEATH PENALTY IN ILLINOIS FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS THANKS TO A DEMOCRAT
Illinois gov signs death penalty repeal
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
03/09/2011 02:25 PM EST
Updated 03/10/2011 10:14 AM EST
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a death penalty ban into law on Wednesday, making Illinois the 16th state to end capital punishment.
Quinn also commuted the sentences of the 15 inmates on death row in the state. Instead, they will serve life in prison without parole. The ban on executions will take effect July 1.
“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history,” the Democratic governor said after he signed the bill. “I think it’s the right and just thing to abolish the death penalty.”
Illinois last performed an execution in 1999. In 2000, then-Gov. George Ryan placed a moratorium on executions after a series of death row inmates were exonerated.
State legislators voted in January to end executions in Illinois. Faced with what he called the “most difficult decision” he’s had to make as governor, Quinn spent two months weighing whether to sign the bill.
“For me, this was a difficult decision, quite literally the choice between life and death,” Quinn wrote in his signing statement. “This was not a decision to be made lightly or a decision that I came to without deep personal reflection.”
State Attorney General Lisa Madigan and several county prosecutors had asked Quinn to veto the bill, saying that videotaped interrogations and advancements in DNA technology had made it possible to guard against the wrongful executions of innocent people. Taped interrogations were the result of a bill drafted by President Barack Obama when he was in the state Senate.
“You know my position, I’ve never changed my position on that,” he said, adding that Quinn’s decision “was up to him.”
The outgoing Chicago mayor, Richard Daley, said he was disappointed with Quinn’s decision, though he too said it “was up to him.”
A former prosecutor, Daley said that DNA testing had made it much easier to prove guilt or innocence. “I believe DNA testing should be part of the whole criminal justice system here in the state of Illinois,” he said. “It prevents any abuse whatsoever if you get DNA testing.”
But Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor-elect, said Wednesday that he supports the governor’s decision. “It’s the right thing to do. I’m glad he’s made that decision,” the former White House chief of staff told the Chicago Tribune. “It’s a different day.”
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Illinois is the 15th state to end capital punishment; it is the 16th.
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/03/illinois-gov-signs-death-penalty-repeal-050966
“In book The Onion Field there’s a fairly extensive discussion about police officers take on when or when not to give up up their firearm.”
NEVER give up your firearm to a person posing a threat.
If you followed the Kim Potter case you would know by now that Rittmanic was reckless for merely having a firearm on her duty belt and she, not Sullivan, is the party responsible for her death. She, as a trained police officer, KNEW that she was carrying a potentially deadly weapon, failed to protect that weapon and, subsequently had it used against her. She is guilty. So sayeth the Potter jury and, also, the DA that charged the cop in Atlanta that killed the guy that shot at him with his own taser. We have precedent for this kind of prosecution.
“typical Amish thugs”?
Who are they?
And where are they at?
Never seen any before.
contrary to modern pop culture. Theres more than just upper body strength which separates men and women. Men are shaped to be the warriors of society not just physically but also psychologically and instinctually through millions of years of evolution as they defended the tribe while women took care of the babies while protected. This can’t be reversed and women magically turned into just as capable warriors every bit as fit to go looking for trouble in the concrete jungle by simply giving them a gun.
She was probably afraid of prison time for using lethal force. In IL, it can happen. This state is notoriously unfriendly to police, and it’s worse the closer you get to Chicago and Springfield.
RIP.
Admittedly, I don’t think it’s always advisable for women to be out on patrol, and I speak as one. I can’t say what should have been done differently, because I don’t know how it played out second by second. I can’t imagine being in that position, and hope I never am.
Yet another callous black on white hate crime/murder.
Not a mystery: she is a female (physically weak), perpetrator is a male (physically strong), she is a victim of woke police force in Illinois. She can’t shoot him dead, tries to arrest him, gets overwhelmed by him physically, end of the story...
Will be bailed out if not already.
“How that can happen to a cop is a mystery.”
Small town cop, 49-year old lady, probably hasn’t had to deal with a lot of shoot-out situations before...
If you want to stay alive avoid black criminals. The problem is how to determine if they are just good hearted black folks or sons of Sharpton. This hatred of white people and police in particular has been engineered by the Democrat Left. These children are killers because the default setting for ‘young and black’ is a ginned up hatred that has been driven into their souls since birth. We are witnessing an epidemic of slaughter. It is gaining momentum. If you are white please be aware that you are a target. Walk circumspectly.
You are probably 100% right. Aftering seeing the thugs were black, if I were in that situation with a family, house and pension on the line, I might have done the same thing. Poor woman. I would grab a pick and go labor in the deepest coal mine before I’d be a cop.
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