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 ...
She gave her life protecting negative dirtbags like you. May she rest in peace.
I’m with you, no mom cops.
With the exception of female guards in female prisons and maybe one female cop per precinct to handle rape victims etc. Not out there in shootouts for crying out loud.
“I guess it’s okay for children to grow up without fathers...
And yes, that was very sexist.”
Nope.
To grow up without a father or a mother is a tragedy.
But the father’s role is to protect the mother and children.
It is not the mother’s role to protect the father.
Women should not be deliberately putting themselves in harm’s way. A car accident is an accident. A cop shootout is on purpose. There is a difference.
Condolences on the death of your dad. I have to believe he’d be proud of you and your sibling, carrying on after his death.
Nothing easy about it. But you know he died protecting the innocent.
A mom is one of the innocents to be protected. I’d have problems with my dad if he ‘let’ her go out there be the protector instead of the protectee for a living.
“PC has hit us all hard.”
It has also confused very appropriate gender roles.
For me, it’s not a question of upper body strength or the ability to shoot.
It’s a question of the role of women in society.
I don’t see women as worth more or less than men. I just see them in different roles, each one of great value.
Men are the protectors. Putting women on the front line robs men of a main role of theirs; inserts a main role on the women; and upsets the gender balance. Children, as usual, hardest hit.
That doesn’t mean it’s better to lose a dad than a mom.
If you lose your dad in the line of fire, you still have pride of him; a fighting man who died protecting you, your family, your country, your city.
If you lost your mom in the line of fire, you say, why wasn’t anyone protecting her? Particularly if you are a young boy, you think, why couldn’t I protect her? You don’t feel bad about not protecting your dad.
You feel bad about not protecting your mom.
Perp got some explaining to do to the Lord. No defense laywer to save him.
“Uhhhhh, gee, Jesus....was just having a bad day. I’m a victim of circumstance and just wanted to end it all. Ehhhh, why did I murder the cop? Hmmmmm, gee, don’t know, felt I had to do something to strike back at the ‘system’.
“Oh, you want me to slide down the chute? Well, okay, I hope you change your mind. Kind of hot down there.”
>> Maybe some day Palin will get the sex change she is craving.
That’s a nutty comment.
The Palin family is quite normal. Sarah’s success is something to be lauded, not trivialized because she doesn’t meet your standards of eloquence.
How are you more Conservative than Palin not counting the inflammatory rhetoric?
Perhaps it would be best if we ignored gender and had
fitness requirements.
nmh is suffering from PDS. In this forum, that affliction may prove to be terminal.
Obviously, but you'll never convince the politically correct who would jeopardize a females life as well as others to make sure political correctness is forced on all of us.
Attacks here against Palin are often indirect attacks against other FReepers. At the least the attacks could be substantial instead hollow vitriol.
instead of
We need to go through this again?
If your on patrol in the senseless murder district, are you going to want a 6'3" 245 pound male partner or a female, mother of two as your partner?
If you get a routine call to go into a bar full of drunken fighting lumberheads do you want a male who can handle himself or a woman to go? If your home is on fire and your upstairs unconscious, do you want a woman or a man capable of carrying you down stairs to show up first?
I agree.
Agreed. A certain RINO and elitist faction of FReepers has been emerging from their hiding places in recent years.
Meaningless question. Car accidents are random events that can happen to anyone. Being a police officer is inherently dangerous.
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