Posted on 03/24/2015 9:58:16 PM PDT by BlueNgold
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KTVU) -- A massive police response descended on an East San Jose neighborhood Tuesday night after a veteran police officer was fatally shot by a suicidal man, according to authorities.
According to San Jose police, at approximately 6:48 P.M., officers responded to the 2600 block of Senter Road on a report of an adult male with a gun threatening to kill himself.
Police say when the officers arrived on scene, they were met with gunfire. One of the officers, a longtime San Jose Police Department veteran, was struck by the gunfire. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The area surrounding Senter and Umbarger has been shut down since shortly after the shooting as authorities search for the gunman. Agencies from all over Santa Clara County including police, sheriff's deputies and SWAT units responded in large numbers to the scene.
Law enforcement agencies and government officials from across the Bay Area were sending their condolences on Twitter once word of the officer's death started to spread.
KTVU received word that the San Jose City Council adjourned early Tuesday night because of the incident.
An employee at a Vietnamese restaurant on Senter Road a block away from the shooting said police informed them that there was somebody in the area with a high-power rifle.
The employee, who declined to give his name, said police instructed them to stay in place at the restaurant, where there were roughly 20 customers Tuesday night.
Prayers up.
Just workplace violence. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Be nice if they'd respond like that when one of us mere mortals gets gunned down...
this is just a couple of blocks from where my parents live and where i stay half the time... so sad... the shooting itself was not exactly in East San Jose...
He’s as good as dead or captured.
hope he doesn't come to our home...
“It’s those damned Amish gangs running wild again..........”
No “Amish” in East SJ. Hispanics and Asians, an they both make the “amish” look like choirboys.
I hate the amisshah. They have nothing to trade.
That is not east San Jose
Senter Road is not East San Jose.
Prayers for the family.
What do you consider East San Jose. Only the other side of 101.
On my Google maps, it considers Senter road east San Jose.
I’m in Almaden.
I would consider East Side the other side of 101, at the exit...
It’s in southeast San Jose to be specific.
I could go with Southeast. ..
57-year-old San Jose resident Scott Dunham
police said the suspect is 57-year-old San Jose resident Scott Dunham. They say the suspect is married, but they believe he is alone inside his home.
Senter Rd is District 7. District 7 is situated (most part) West of Hwy 101 and stop at King Rd (East of Hwy 101). Local news call Senter Rd - “East Side” because it is in the boundary of East Side High School District. I live in Evergreen area, it is also East Side.
Nebraska senator compares police to ISIS, suggests he’d shoot a cop
By Deena Winter
Published March 25, 2015
watchdog.org
A black Nebraska state senator compared American police to Islamic terrorists and suggested he’d shoot a cop if only he had a weapon.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers said during a legislative hearing Friday that you don’t have to go halfway around the world to find an ISIS mentality. It can be found in America because police terrorize blacks every day.
He was referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has beheaded journalists and brutally executed Westerners and others.
“My ISIS is the police,” Chambers said, adding police can get away with shooting people if they “think” they’re going to do something — like pull a weapon.
“The police are licensed to kill us — children, old people,” he said.
Nebraska’s longest serving senator, Chambers represents north Omaha, a high-crime area where racial tension simmers and sometimes erupts after encounters with police. In March 2013, for example, police threw a man to the ground and pummeled him while 32 police officers stormed a home across the street, in response to a parking complaint. Four police officers were fired amid allegations of excessive force, evidence tampering and a police cover-up.
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