Posted on 12/28/2006 10:51:58 AM PST by CAWats
LONG BEACH - After exchanging several rounds of gunshots, Santa Ana police officers on Wednesday shot and killed the man they suspected of shooting and critically wounding two Long Beach police officers.
Police officials say they believe the man is Oscar Gabriel Gallegos, 33, but his identity cannot be officially confirmed until after a coroner's inspection this morning.
"We do believe it's him based on the information we have, but it's not 100 percent," said Victor Standke, a spokesman for the Santa Ana Police Department.
The fatal shooting occurred when three SAPD officers followed the man believed to be Gallegos into a strip mall at 216 E. Warner Ave. LBPD officers, who were conducting surveillance of the suspect.
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Thanks!
/sarc
Crimes committed by foreigners are of greater importance than crime committed by regular U.S. citizens.
They "live scan" the dude's fingerprints. (Sort of odd terminology, eh?)
About the only way I can think of is if he was already incarcerated..
Bingo. Homie had a rap sheet about a mile long. He was not unknown lo law enforcment before taking his dirt nap...
The latest update/official confirmation is posted on the thread Burbank Karl started at the time of the shooting: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757486/posts?page=175#175
He broke the story.
In general - I think generalizations suck regardless of the realities of what our experience tells us. The original poster (to which I responded) asserted that a HUGE number of illegals are demented and violent. I asked for some sort of documentation and your links do not prove his assertion. What I think needs to be defined is what is meant by 'huge'? Frankly - the whole thread smacks of bigotry. I've known many Mexicans over the years. I was a member of an inner-city church in Houston and we had hundreds of Mexicans in our congregation (we ran attendance of around 500) and I can honestly say that in my experience they were normal people. During my college years I worked side-by-side on construction crews and in factories with Mexicans and again - normal people. Were they violent? No more so than the anglos I worked with in a construction world. In fact - on the framing crews I worked on the anglos were the drunk, lazy, unreliable ones. I could count on the Mexicans to be there day-in and day-out - even in bad weather.
Is there a serious problem with our immigration system? Heck yes there is - and for many reasons (as we've seen in the black community) the problems have produced more than their fair share of violent offenders - and that's directly related to MANY factors but it is most certainly NOT an indication that Mexicans are disproportionately demented and violent.
Yeah,I am surprised they are allowed to carry guns!
Oh boy. Another poster who believes we don't have enough of our own criminals and that we should allow the criminals of other nations free access to the citizens of the United States.
Logic? What's that?
L
Oh yes, the cops in Orange County carry. Oh yessiree.
Yep. That's why we're all so happy that the freak who shot a BLACK COP has gotten his just rewards.
OC's rather conservative...that's one of the MAIN reasons we've been able to handle being here for so long.
It is, however, changing...rapidly.
Home For Sale! Any takers? ;)
Good luck on the sale!Don't know much about the housing prices,but get what you can,and run,run,run!!
We're also having a hard time agreeing on where to move TO!
Ok - saying the 'whole' thread smacks of bigotry was off the mark.
Got anyplace in TX that doesn't have that high humidity?
:)
I sure would call MS13 members demented. Same for those Castro dumped on us and the blond and blue-eyed Russian Mafia and the members of other Hispanic and Oriental gangs, generally made up of illegal aliens albeit there are legal immigrants among them also. In our area it has been estimated that the number of gang members run into the thousands and they are busy recruiting in the high schools.
I have no love for criminals, and all illegal aliens are criminals who are willing to break laws if it's to their benefit. The solution is easy - start deporting them, remove the perks, and punish those who rent to them or hire them.
We're talking about southern California, where the majority of violent, "most wanted" criminals happen to be of hispanic origin. We read the news every day about violent hispanic gangs who are shooting their guns at people, including children, and are wreaking havoc on the communities.
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