Police are killed/wounded in the performance of dutyOeb,
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others. Two civilians were also wounded. Johnson was an Army Reserve Afghan War veteran who was reportedly angry over police shootings of black men and stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers. The shooting happened at the end of a protest against the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, which had occurred in the preceding days.
Following the shooting, Johnson fled inside a building on the campus of El Centro College. Police followed him there, and a standoff ensued. In the early hours of July 8, police killed Johnson with a bomb attached to a remote control bomb disposal robot. It was the first time U.S. law enforcement used a robot to kill a suspect.
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11 attacks, surpassing two related March 2009 shootings in Oakland, California, and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington, and a 2009 shooting of Pittsburgh police officers.
They are a thin blue line between me and folks I cannot handle.
Something DPST's fail to comprehend or remember, or even care about - until their own little lives are inconvenienced. Then they scream bloody murder about lack of police protection of their own sacred tiny butts.
Thank you for your illuminating post BS. Originally Posted by oeb11
Most police absolutely do put themselves between danger and others even when they shouldn't be expected to do that because it could cost them their own.
Every police I know are appalled by BSO's cowardess. I do not think BSO would have even been named in the suite had they went into the building and engaged the shooter like EVERY other cop around the country would do or has done.
BSO is a stain on law enforcement.