Posted on 01/02/2011 5:06:10 PM PST by rawhide
A female police officer has been shot dead and another wounded after a dramatic trailer park gun battle in Ohio.
Mother-of-two Suzanne Waughtel Hopper, 40, had driven to the trailer park after reports came in of shots being fired in the Enon Beach area late Saturday morning.
As she examined the area and took photos, the door of a nearby silver trailer opened and a man fired a single shot from a shotgun.
Deputy Hopper was killed instantly by the blast.
The officer who had accompanied there desperately tried to reach her body as a gun battle then ensued at the trailer park just southwest of Springfield and about 50 miles west of Columbus.
Sergeant Dustin White had been interviewing a family whose trailer had been shot at when he heard his partner scream.
Enon Beach resident Angelina Inman said: 'He was itching to get her. He kept radioing in, can he please get her, and he was told no because it wasn't secure. You could see him crying - he wanted to get her, he wanted to get her bad.'
The as-yet unidentified man fired again on police who responded to the 'officer down' call, sparking a furious gun battle as officers returned fire with handguns and automatic weapons.
It was during this firefight that Patrolman Jeremy Blum, 32, was also wounded...
...The shooter, who has not been named until relatives have been notified, was also killed in the gunfight as officers from several different agencies converged on the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The comments at the Mail criticize the police procedure.
Should she have been photographing evidence at a site where someone had fired shots a few minutes before, or should she and her partner have been ready and on the alert to encounter the gunman?
Being male doesn’t make one immune from a shotgun blast, just FYI.
Rest in peace, Deputy Hopper.
I have no problem with perps committing suicide-by-cop, but only the real cowards have the need to take a cop with them.
You are right. Even conservatives have bought into the feminist outrage at the very idea of there being any limits at all on a woman doing exactly what suits her fancy. PC has hit us all hard. - Women ARE built different than men, they don’t have the upper body strength to do certain jobs. A former military officer told me that he had women under his command and that when his company got the order to “bug out”, the women couldn’t do the heavy lifting to accomplish a bug out. They’d just ignore the order to do so, and call it done. In combat, sadly, calling it done isn’t getting it done. It’s foolish and costs lives.
Somewhere in the handbook it’s supposed to say “secure the scene” before beginning the investigation.
Tragedy for her family and her County.
That's probably an accurate description of how Congress will handle the spending/budget issues.
Sadly, I do not believe things will at all change until, there too, lives are lost.
A really nice person. Very tough for all who knew her.
Yes, my first thought as well.
Especially when responding to a "shots fired" call.
In any event, prayers for this young woman and her family. What a horrible tragedy.
The only good part is that the scumbag perp is dead forever.
Good point. Survival instincts come innately to the male. There's a reason men used to be hunters/ gatherers and women stayed in their caves nurturing the young. No amount of social engineering will change instincts. I am not saying women should only stay home and rear the young, but I think there are somethings in which women don't naturally belong, even if training helps to a degree.
Sad story, but I am going to have to call shenanigans on the "automatic weapons".
If fathers were around and DOING their jobs we wouldn’t have the Brittany Spear types and Lindsay Lohan types trapsing around in self destruction. Fathers are VERY important to their daughters and sons. You can NOT replace them with females.
I don’t know about the other one but Colonel Allen West is AWESOME. He’s got his act together. It’s NOT about his color for me. He has substance and principles I agree with.
Wow. She looks just like FBI Agent Renee Walker from ‘24’.
“No! You’re not sexist, just spot on.
Female cops shouldn’t be allowed in the field. PERIOD!”
Indeed!
Standards are LOWERED because females LACK the upper body strength. They are more emotionally wired. Every now and then you see it on one of these cop shows were the women are tossed around like rag dolls. Naturally the left is bombing us with female cop shows. It’s ridiculous.
Women have more to offer than trying to pretend they are males. Why don’t they see that? Take Condi Rice. A SHARP woman. She’s smarter than Graham and others. It’s too bad she doesn’t want a political life anymore.
btt
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