Posted on 07/17/2022 4:34:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Houston police officer spoke out for the first time about thwarting a potential mass shooting earlier this year, when a man with a rifle and 120 rounds of ammunition was spotted in a mall near a children’s dance competition.
“I quickly bum rushed, tackled him. And my first reaction was to make sure that I get a hold of the rifle. No matter what I grabbed, make sure I grabbed that rifle,” Houston Sgt. Kendrick Simpo told ABC 13. “I had in my mind (that) I was going to get shot. I just had to bear the pain. I knew it was going to hurt, and I was like, ‘Whatever I do, I cannot let go of this rifle.'”
Simpo said he was working a second job at The Galleria mall in Houston’s Uptown District Feb. 5 when he heard a call about a man with a rifle near Macy’s at the mall.
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“Houston cop lauded for stopping potential mass shooting near kid’s dance competition”
Many gay kids saved? Boom?
Hero.
He was working his second job. Another citizen, a good man to the rescue.
God bless American men.
The guy got a slap on the wrist. Doesn’t make any sense.
Children were saved by a heroic cop. Why must you sexualize little children?
So would a CCW holder get ‘lauded’?
Good guy with a gun saves the day!
These stories need spectacular news coverage without identifying the perps. The wannabe's need to contemplate fates other than going out in a blaze of media attention.
Exactly!
The Galleria mall used to be the best one in Houston but it has gone down the same path as most malls and become overrun by “yutes.”
That is what destroyed a certain percentage of malls.
One used to be near me. The current one near me is having these problems.
I do not patronize them anymore.
You see these malls when they were built. Lots of civilized people using them. Non criminals. Non thugs. Non gang members. Non yutes. It worked then. The blacks and minorities destroy these places.
I was born and raised in Houston,but left to East Texas in 1989. Best move I made for my children!
All that said,crime is here and rising in small town USA!
Unfortunately for my grandkids!
Good cop. Smart cop. Brave cop and good backup.
That’s how professionals do it!
Thanks guys!!
He could replace the entire Uvalde police dept.
The democrat party is evil. They are behind the mass killings.
Good cop.brave and thoughtful.
The dance competition could have been ballroom dancing....or tap dancing. Why would the newspaper give us any useful info.?
Perp should be locked up in mental asylum.
Congratulations to this quick thinking cop! There are many good ones and a few were at Uvalde and shot the sob Ramos without checking with Arredondo.
“You see these malls when they were built. Lots of civilized people using them. Non criminals. Non thugs. Non gang members. Non yutes. It worked then. The blacks and minorities destroy these places.”
A common, but wrong, perception. The problem is with JUDGES who declared malls as ‘public spaces’, thus preventing the owners from clearing out the ‘youths’ and other troublemakers. The ‘youths’ were always around and a problem, going back at least 50 years. Their mall access came later.
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