A late-night ambush outside a state police barracks in Pennsylvania's rural northeastern corner left one trooper dead and another critically wounded, and authorities scoured the densely wooded countryside and beyond on Saturday looking for the shooter or shooters.NOTE: Read the comments over at The BLAZE!...this is a right wing news site and the comments are all negative towards police. Something has happened and the public no longer supports them. One bad move and Sovereign Citizens and other anti-police groups will be cheered in their attacks.
State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said a "very dangerous, armed criminal" eluded quick capture.
"This attack was an ambush. Our troopers were ... shot without warning and really had no chance to defend themselves," Noonan told reporters Saturday afternoon. "It's a cowardly attack. It's an attack upon all of us in society."
Interesting. An ambush by definition, if conducted properly, doesn't give the target a chance to defend themselves.
I also find it interesting that the Commissioner says that this is an attack against all of society. How? Unfortunately for police, those that target them hardly ever go after the rest of society. Even the most rabid of them...the Sovereign Citizens...rarely go after other members of society.
Many mistook my stance on the issues in Ferguson. Everyone wanted to focus on whether or not the police shooting was legit or not. I never did. Not enough information was available AND we were immediately hit with propaganda from both sides (to include the Police Chief withholding information & releasing selective info that supported his side).
WHAT DID alarm me was the military tactics/militarization of police that we saw when County Police showed up to assist in crowd control.
What should alarm Police Officials AND US citizens is that the distance between law enforcement and the people they're working for is greater than ever.
I seriously wonder if the war on Police has begun.
Jumpy, twitchy police. Yea, I see this has a lot of potential to escalate. Especially if this mystery guy or possible group keeps ambushing them.
ReplyDeleteTony, a reader on this blog, talked about some guys that show up video taping police on traffic stops. i thought nothing of it (even though they show up armed...thats stupid...you're showing up at a traffic stop with AR's or pistols visible?....i'd immediately draw on them regardless but that's a different issue) but when you put it in the light of Sovereign Citizens, and an anti-police vibe that is starting to take hold and you have the seeds of some really bad stuff coming down.
Deletei seriously wonder if the average cop on the street realizes how explosive shit really is for them on the streets. they probably are used to being extremely careful around the average run of the mill crimminal but what happens when joe citizen is suddenly your enemy.
It's game over for the police if joe citizen starts shooting at them. No amount of MRAPs, tactical gear, or flashbangs will be enough to hold off that tide.
DeleteI expect most police to call in sick at that point. It's all fun and games playing Tier One Operator while kicking in doors for a bag of weed, but it won't be too fun wondering if someone has your front door zeroed in when you go to work in the morning. It's not much fun thinking about this, because we will go from local PD MRAPS to National Guard Bradleys pretty fast.
The amazing thing, Solomon, is that it is really a bipartisan issue alongside many of the other issues with the way things are going that are quickly becoming bipartisan.
DeleteIts not just Sovereign Citizens, Patriot, III%-ers opposed to police militarization. It is the peaceniks, OWS-types, oppressed minorities, and those who are liberal/democratic along their line of ideology.
Furgeson was a canary in the coal mine, as I've always said. As people continuously get pissed off at the egregious abuse by law enforcement (both state and federal), there will be more incidents like this. and there will be more justifications for militarization and gearing up to suppress a "unruly population" (which is stupid honestly. American citizens are armed to the teeth).
Occupying armies quickly wear out their welcome, no matter how good their intentions may be or how legitimate they paint themselves.
Unrelated news: I'm shocked that this is happening! You mean they aren't impartial? LOL!!!
ReplyDelete".... In a much-cited 2008 exposé, The New York Times revealed a network of retired generals on the payroll of defense contractors who carefully echoed the Bush administration’s Iraq war demands through appearances on cable television. "
Plus the little gem of slipping in a $2 billion request for the F35, which isn't even near going to a war zone......
"When the Pentagon sent a recent $2 billion request for ramped-up operations in the Middle East, supposedly to confront the ISIS issue, budget details obtained by Bloomberg News revealed that officials asked for money for additional F-35 planes. The F-35 is not in operation and would not be used against ISIS...."
http://www.thenation.com/article/181601/whos-paying-pro-war-pundits#
And this will be the another argument for dudes who want further full militarization of Police. Not that Police is not paramilitary formation, it is... just like firefighters. But open attacking the organisation that is created to enforce law and order is attack on society. That's the legal point of view. It's more a hit in trias politica as executive part of it is one of pillars of modern society.
ReplyDeletePolice in my opinion are not there to be liked or hugs & kisses, they are there to maintain order and that I will not arm myself to the teeth when I want to walk outside my "castle". They make mistakes, they are only humans. But openly attacking them... this is bad. This will not ease the tension, this will rise it. Officers will be jumpy, react with arms for every situation and they will demand better full combat gear.
This is going in to bad direction, very bad.
I still believe that the largest catalyst for this is anti government sentiment. You have groups on the right pissed at Obama, groups on the left and right pissed at the NSA, and the groups that believe the police are only there to harass them or help make the government money now are all coming together to go after the one government entity that is visible 24/7.
ReplyDeleteI worry about the Cop Blockers (those videoing police) not that they will catch an officer doing something bad, but that they seem to post highly edited video to get a high emotional response. Of course when the whole truth/video comes out it's given so little attention that nobody pays attention. The uninformed believe the nuts and their numbers grow. Also the fact the true radicals will infiltrate or act like a blocker group then ambush an officer.
A big question I have is if all they believe is true wouldn't there be some government agency linking who these people are to their fake Facebook accounts.
Oh the guy running the open carry group and cop block group that has been getting so much bad press had a record and can't pass a background to carry concealed so that's his motivation for open carry. Then he is a constitutionalist in the sense he seems to think city and states can't make ordinances or traffic codes for people to abide by hence his Cop Blocking.
Solomon:
ReplyDeleteI do not know if this comment will help in anything but ...
Here in Brazil policemen and prison guards are killed regularly.
They are hunted on the doorstep, in restaurants etc. .
Who orders the killing inmates are heads of what we call here factions.
The population is disarmed, the maximum you can have inside the house are knives, is Law.
Of course it is not my case, hehe.
Police and military have been Forest - two years and ten years respectively.
I was arrested for illegal possession of weapon - six hours handcuffed - it was a shame when they pulled my background in the police station, the officer apologized.
There was no process, no bond, no prosecution.
I know what that is receiving death threats, received six in two and half years I worked in Ubatuba-SP - Brazil as Forest Guard.
Commanded 48 guys working in shift 24hX48h, lived in barracks in the woods, the nearest telephone was the 32Km away.
We communicated with in São Paulo - capital, our headquarters in radio SSB and VHF in the city.
In 1987 there were no mobile operator in Brazil.
If even that weekend happened this world, imagine the cities.
It was not once nor twice that of the chief investigators or the police chief requested our support to house one of its in our nook.
Even on days off with the family, I was always hands-on three - with women, children, etc. .
Never, I repeat - NEVER - we walked alone!
This is troublesome: it is.
This takes privacy: yes!
This saves you be killed: yes!
Solomon, nowadays things are much worse, unfortunately.
Honestly, I pity those who work in public safety, are easy targets for armed population.
With more crazy than here.
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