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Memphis police shooting: 1 cop, 18-year-old suspect killed; 2 other MPD officers injured
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | April 12, 2024 | Lucas Finton

Posted on 04/12/2024 7:12:44 AM PDT by packagingguy

Three Memphis police officers were taken to Regional One Hospital in unknown conditions Friday morning after a shootout in South Memphis. One of those officers, and an 18-year-old believed by police to be part of the shooting, died at the hospital, Interim Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis said later that morning.

According to the Memphis Police Department, in a post to X Friday morning, the officers were called out to a "suspicious vehicle" at Horn Lake Road about 2 a.m. Friday. As they approached the vehicle, the department said the officers were shot at and then "returned fire." Two officers as well the two people believed to be in the vehicle were shot, MPD said.

"The vehicle fled and was located in the 400 block of Hewlett Road," MPD said in the X post. "One suspect was taken into custody immediately. One fled the scene and was located nearby. The two officers were transported to Regional One. Both suspects were transported to ROH."

The officer that died was identified by Davis as Officer Joseph McKinney. McKinney, she said, joined the department in 2020 and was part of the Raines Station alpha shift...

"As a community, we have to do better. We have to ensure that parents know where young people are at three o'clock in the morning. We need to work as a community to do whatever we can with reducing gun violence in our community."

(Excerpt) Read more at commercialappeal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; coulterslaw; crime; memphis; police
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The Chief of Police just held a news conference repeatedly talking about gun violence.

Apparently there was a Glock with a "Glock switch" that converted it to fully automatic. Then the Glock started to become violent and shot the officers.

The fact that one of the suspects had been let go after a recent arrest probably doesn't have anything to do with it.

1 posted on 04/12/2024 7:12:44 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

I went walking in Memphis.......................


2 posted on 04/12/2024 7:15:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: packagingguy

The problem is...
It’s not OUR guns,
It’s YOUR sons.


3 posted on 04/12/2024 7:17:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

I have rela4ives who live in Memphis, and they are itching to move because crime has become so rampant there that it is dangerous to walk anywhere, especially alone. It is so,bad now that folks have had to install security cameras everywhere, front, back, sides of house- not just to protect their own homes, but to capture possible crimes committed in nearby homes as well.


4 posted on 04/12/2024 7:21:35 AM PDT by Bob434
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You mean the 18 YO who was previously arrested in a stolen vehicle with an illegal semi-automatic weapon?

Nah, couldn’t have anything to do with it, could it.

Jeez louise.


5 posted on 04/12/2024 7:22:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: packagingguy

A weapon in the hand of of a shepherd boy killed a giant.

A weapon in the hands of a farmer killed his brother

It’s not about the weapons! It’s abput who wields said weapons-


6 posted on 04/12/2024 7:23:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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I was raised just southeast of there, in Mississippi, in the 50’s and 60’s.

This isn’t the Memphis I knew.....................


7 posted on 04/12/2024 7:24:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Bob434

Which is why Deep State has a mad-on for law-abiding gun owners.


8 posted on 04/12/2024 7:25:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Red Badger

The relatives say that too. Rea,ly though, this isn’t the America I grew up in and loved anymore either because liberals have screwed everything g up intentionally so.


9 posted on 04/12/2024 7:32:09 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: packagingguy

Yeah, if those evil LEOs didn’t have guns the innocent folks would still be okee dokee.


10 posted on 04/12/2024 7:33:27 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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We have to ensure that parents know where young people are...

Parents? What a fool.

11 posted on 04/12/2024 7:37:23 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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The left should be brought up on charges of unnecessarily endangering the lives of people by restricting their God given right to self defense- especially in the face of a rapidly rising criminal society which gleefully opens the borders for terrorists to come pouring through!


12 posted on 04/12/2024 7:37:40 AM PDT by Bob434
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I remember walking around the block on Florence street between Union and Poplar avenues with my cousin when we were just 6-8 years old all by ourselves. No way would I let my kids do that now.....................


13 posted on 04/12/2024 7:39:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

It’s them again Boo Boo.


14 posted on 04/12/2024 7:41:08 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: packagingguy

Memphis is a chocolate city.


15 posted on 04/12/2024 7:52:52 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
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To: Red Badger

I know what you mean. My relatives lived in boston- and even back in the 60’s it was dangerous to walk around, but not nearly as dangerous as today. We used to go visit them once in awhile, and we could play outside, but couldn’t leave the yard-

I went to Dorchester once and stayed with a friend’s family for a week. One morning I went for a walk, got back to the apartment, and the parents of the friend freaked out and told me never to do,that again- I was naive at the time about city life.


16 posted on 04/12/2024 7:53:32 AM PDT by Bob434
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Real leadership. Paul Young browsing his cell phone while his police chief has to read from her cell phone and swipe pages to deliver a press conference in front of cameras. It was disgusting and there is way more to this story. The facts paint the two perpetrators as professional car thieves, and were arrested a few weeks ago with programming devices and machine guns. No bond even required.

I smell informants and retribution that went sideways. The cops are just the same in Memphis as the criminals. They frequently have overlapping interests.

17 posted on 04/12/2024 7:55:59 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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18 posted on 04/12/2024 8:00:22 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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Indeed even if your French fry bag at McDonalds wasn’t full enough.
Any reason to loot will do


19 posted on 04/12/2024 8:07:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Bob434

Not the America I wore the uniform for.


20 posted on 04/12/2024 8:09:58 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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