Posted on 11/02/2016 2:37:18 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
S MOINES, IA (KTRK) -- Two police officers were ambushed and killed overnight in Des Moines, Iowa.
A search is underway for the person who fatally shot them.
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Thanks!
They said there’s going to be another press conference at 10 am and another this afternoon. That’s all I got from the anchors.
Pray for the police everywhere.This is an outrage that POTUS Trummp will have to help stop.
That’s because the link is to a Houston, Texas, TV station.
Ending it for good was another of the negative legacies of the execrable Harold Hughes.
Mr. niteowl77
So sad, so terrible, and i know who is to ultimately blame for this. America MUST band together, drive out the corruption, no mercy, no get out of jail cards.
May they be with God, and may God comfort their families. Sad to hear. I hope they catch the perp(s) as soon as possible.
God bless the families of the slain officers and the citizens of De Moines. God help us all if HRC is elected, and this culture of cop killing continues.
Find a way to tie the perps to a capital offense in Texas and we will be happy to oblige. ;)
That is the third officer in four days. An officer was shot and killed in Wisconsin (Ladysmith) on Saturday night. It appeared to be an ambush.
Why are police lives and government employee lives more valuable than the lives of everyone else? Shouldn't we also treat ALL murderers the same? Here in Atlanta a couple of colorful youts lured a pizza delivery driver to their apartment and then robbed and killed him. The lawyers for the younger one are saying that "all he did" was order the pizza , but both of the youts were posing on facebook with the gun a couple of hours befo de robbery. Shouldn't they get an automatic death sentence also? (My opinion is that they should)
I just don't understand why some citizens' lives are considered more valuable than others.
*Also federal government employees
That is the third officer in four days. An officer was shot and killed in Wisconsin (Ladysmith) on Saturday night. It appeared to be an ambush.
“They were in separate partrol cars a few miles apart from each other.”
Were they killed by the same guy? If yes, suggests to me that the routines and habits these cops were probably studied in advance. They were stalked,hunted down and murdered....
Thank God -- it looks like they've got a suspect in custody.
The area where this happened seems to be mostly in the upscale suburb of Urbandale, where one of the murdered officers worked.
The entire area is shut down as of 6:00 am, including nearby Urbandale High School.
This happened during a thunderstorm, and in an area where it wouldn’t be unusual for someone to flag down a cop to just chat a bit.
Unless there was a recording, this is going to be hard to solve.
70th & Aurora......anyone know what kind of neighborhood this is?
I looked at a map, an Urbandale High School is nearby. Also a mall.
In Texas, the murder of that delivery driver counts as capital murder. Murder of a peace officer or a murder in the commission of another felony offense is capital murder in Texas. As for why murders of LEO’s rate a near automatic death sentence is very simple: They put their lives on the line each and every day they put on their uniforms. They are the thin blue line that stands between the criminal element and law-abiding citizens that just want to live their lives in peace.
Let’s hope there are video recordings in the near vicinity. Thank you for your local report.
Sure, Iowa should have the death penalty for crimes like this, they also have a murder rate less than half of a state like Texas. ;) 7-Elevens being knocked over every night.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRord
In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin was portrayed and everyone was told they were ‘equal’ but then they were told some ‘were more equal’.
There should be no special laws saying a crime against someone who is of a racial group, has a different sexual orientation etc. etc. is a more serious crime deserving more punishment.
The same should go for law enforcement-government employees.
I’m a government employee and I don’t think my life is more valuable than the lives of others.
“70th & Aurora......anyone know what kind of neighborhood this is?”
That is your typical Americana suburban area, middle to upper middle class area. Very safe, low crime and predominately white. Good Schools, Merle Hay Mall, and local pubs. I would consider that area safe to walk all hours of the day and night.
Blows my mind.
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