Posted on 08/30/2017 4:41:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Houston firefighters came under gunfire from looters while conducting search and rescue operations Monday.
Houston police union officials told The Daily Caller News Foundation that a group of firefighters were targeted by looters while helping people escape the catastrophic flooding.
“We had firefighters out there helping people, and looters started firing on them,” Officer Joe Gamaldi told TheDCNF Tuesday morning. “We sent officers down there on a code 1 (which means as fast as you can) to assist, and they too came under fire.”
Gamaldi told TheDCNF that the incident occurred at the intersection of Tidwell and Mesa, just north of the downtown area.
Gamaldi said that no one was injured in the incident, which occurred Monday afternoon.
“This was absolutely the most despicable and disgusting thing that you could imagine,” Gamaldi said. “That our officers had to stop what they were doing, high water rescues and saving lives, to deal with looters firing at our officers and firefighters.”
He had a message to looters: “If you are caught, you will go to jail and there will be severe consequences.”
Montgomery County (a neighboring county to Houston) District Attorney Brett Ligon made it clear that looters would be jailed and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Ligon announced Monday that his office will seek prison or jail time in each and every forthcoming case where the defendant stands charged with theft (looting), burglary, robbery, or any similar crime committed during recovery efforts.
“Leniency and probation will be off the table for these offenses committed during this time,” Ligon said. State law allows for enhanced punishment for certain crimes committed during a declared natural disaster event.
One resident had a stark warning to potential looters, “You loot, I shoot.”
If looters are shot dead, the problem can be resolved in a few years after the crisis is over.
I imagine some of those are Katrina transplants... Maybe BLM members...
Zero tolerance for looters.
Loooters need to be taken out ASAP.
Even id they are “Goot Boys”
Send SWAT team with firefighters — other Police Officers/Sheriff Deputies/Armed National Guard troops...
Solution;
Shoot back, take no prisoners, leave the bodies for the gators.
Looting will stop.
“Enhanced Punishment” should be on the spot. Looters should not be arrested and they should be stopped from further looting. During riots and disasters once long ago in a more rational world, “Looters will be shot” was the watchword.
Amen
Ten or twelve gator gnawed bodies will provide motivation to cease and desist looting
“Looters will be shot” was the watchword.
I saw this morning, Texas National Guard announced looters will be shot on sight...............red
Right there is the problem.
Those *looters* need to be taken out. For good. They are murderers.
One resident had a stark warning to potential looters, “You loot, I shoot.”
THAT is the way to deal with it.
There’s a special place in Hell for these scum.
I wonder what the description is of them. mmmmmmmm
Remember all those peeps who came to Houston after Katrina? well.. they are shooting at rescuers again!
Videos everywhere.
Guess.
Kill on sight. No questions asked.
Shoot on sight. No questions asked.
I suspect there’s allot of houses down there that they don’t want anybody knowing what’s in them. Drug dealers have priorities!
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