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2 Virginia police officers fatally shot during traffic stop
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 2/25/2025 | Natalie Anderson

Posted on 02/25/2025 1:37:28 PM PST by Mark

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The suspect committed suicide.
1 posted on 02/25/2025 1:37:28 PM PST by Mark
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There’s a reason patrol cars are called coffins. A lot of police officers don’t wear seat belts or take them off immediately after pulling someone over. If you ever watch Cops, you’ll see a lot of police officers touch the tail light of the car that they pulled over as it evidence in case, God forbid, something were to happen to them.


2 posted on 02/25/2025 1:41:02 PM PST by Mean Daddy
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The usual person with low impulse control.


3 posted on 02/25/2025 1:43:46 PM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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This is a horror.


4 posted on 02/25/2025 1:47:38 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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There’s a reason patrol cars are called coffins.

BS

5 posted on 02/25/2025 1:48:46 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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How sickening. As for the suspect, it’s a usual suspect:

https://knowinsiders.com/who-is-john-mccoy-iii-the-suspect-behind-the-killing-of-two-virginia-police-officers-43016.html


6 posted on 02/25/2025 1:54:22 PM PST by Restless
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Photo included:

https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-police-confirm-photo-of-suspect-who-shot-killed-two-officers


7 posted on 02/25/2025 1:56:46 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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Color me shocked. It’s imposssible to avoid a racist outlook when this happens so often.


8 posted on 02/25/2025 2:00:47 PM PST by albie (U)
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Cops are neutered by the courts in performing their duties safely. These cops would be alive today if they were lawfully able to defend themselves.

But..... Derek Chauvin lawfully defended himself.And look where he is. For another 20 years.


9 posted on 02/25/2025 2:01:27 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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Years ago, Omaha police officer Jimmy Wilson was killed after staying buckled in his car only to have someone jump out of the vehicle and open fire on him. I recall some of the officers afterwards commenting in the paper that they called their vehicles coffins. Believe what you want. Google it:

What does the police car is a coffin mean? Back in the 1970s, the 80s and even the 90s, this phrase “the car as a coffin” was a warning, a cop-training-phrase, a “word to the wise” about being stuck in the car and being killed while stuck by an outside shooter.Jan 5, 2017

No need to apologize.

10 posted on 02/25/2025 2:03:30 PM PST by Mean Daddy
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Cops really love to talk about their “sacrifice” but they are not as heroic as they paint themselves to be. At the end of the day police are only as good as the government that employs them. When you have a totalitarian government, you have totalitarian police. When you have a good government, you have good police. They are the armed enforcers of the government, nothing more.

There are many blue-collar professions that have a higher rate of injury and death than police officers yet we don’t hear the constant drum beat of stories claiming them to be heroes. Oil field workers have much higher rates of injury and death yet I don’t get constantly bombarded about how “heroic” they are. Police have a tough job and get great pay and benefits. That’s enough.


11 posted on 02/25/2025 2:03:56 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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Condolences to family and friends of Cameron Girvin and Christopher Reese.


12 posted on 02/25/2025 2:04:28 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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I’d like to see the video. Where are the cops standing side by side? And if so, why?


13 posted on 02/25/2025 2:06:16 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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Prayers up for these two brother cops and their families.


14 posted on 02/25/2025 2:08:05 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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prayers for their families


15 posted on 02/25/2025 2:10:48 PM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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“There’s a reason patrol cars are called coffins.

BS”
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Yep, I’m with you there. Over 40 years and I’ve never heard a patrol car called anything like that.


16 posted on 02/25/2025 2:11:25 PM PST by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10161687833173962&set=p.10161687833173962&type=3


17 posted on 02/25/2025 2:12:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Too bad he waited so long to perform a late term abortion on himself.


18 posted on 02/25/2025 2:19:36 PM PST by Paladin2
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If I were a cop, I would approach a car at that time of night only with my gun drawn and ready. Insanity.


19 posted on 02/25/2025 2:24:03 PM PST by odawg
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“The suspect committed suicide. “

No matter. He could still be placed on the ground and shot again.


20 posted on 02/25/2025 2:24:28 PM PST by Revel
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