Snipers shoot 12 cops, kill 5, at Black Lives Matter Protest

[Forty Two]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... olice.html

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/0 ... e-twitter/

Coordinated shooters ambush police and try to pick them off, killing five. Preplanned.

[cronus]

Muslims?

[NineBerry]

Russians

[cronus]

Russian-Gay-Muslims

[Tero]

If those cops only had machine guns at all times, they could just spray all roof tops as they march by. Need bigger guns!

[Forty Two]

I think they would have been safer unarmed.

[Seth]

Muslims?

No, BLMers. The race war is on the cusp of breaking out. And I can't say as I blame the black community for being outraged because I'm outraged at police behavior lately when it comes to shooting people, which they seem to do at the drop of a hat...literally.

On the other hand, a two-year study of police shootings by the Washington Times shows that while shooting by officers increased in the first six months of this year over last year from 465 to 491 and blacks are shot at 2.5 times the rate of whites (which figure is disputed by other studies which suggest police actually shoot more white people than blacks), fewer than 10 percent of all those killed were unarmed.

Although it doesn't say, I suspect that almost all of them were somehow violently resisting the police. Lesson: Don't resist the police, ever.

"As was the case in 2015, in most fatal shootings this year officers were confronted by subjects armed with guns. In half these cases they fired at police, prompting officers to fire their own guns to defend themselves or to protect bystanders."

The shooting of a licensed concealed-carrier is an anomaly. But, in this climate, as a concealed-carrier myself, while I would inform the officer that I have a permit and a gun, I would NEVER reach for anything, even if told to do so. I would keep my hands on the dash and put a nice clear set of fingerprints on the windshield and say "Respectfully, sir, I'm not moving my hands at all. When your backup arrives, you may perform a felony-stop extraction from a distance, behind cover, to minimize the chance that you might shoot me and I'll prone out on the street and then you can disarm me and search for my permit in my wallet, which is in my left rear pocket."

[laklak]

That is good advice, Seth.

[Tyrannical]

Blacks are shot at 2.5 times the rates of whites? Cops need to be way more trigger happy vs blacks since blacks commit violent crimes at 6x the rate of whites.

[pErvinalia]

I wonder what the rate of cops shooting racists is.

[Tyrannical]

I wonder what the rate of cops shooting racists is.

Considering how most blacks and hispanics are racist, I'd say the rate is high; but again not high enough.

[pErvinalia]

I wonder what the rate of cops shooting racists is.

Considering how most blacks and hispanics

Citation required..

[NineBerry]

So, the attacker was a war veteran and the police officers he shot were also war veterans? Maybe having so many war veterans in the police force is also a possible explanation for police brutality? (Together with bad education and working conditions). I noticed in the case of the Orlando shooting, that the security guard that was killed was also a police officer working part time as security at the gay club. Why are police not paid well enough so that they don't have to take a second job?

[NineBerry]

I guess the robot that killed the attacker was also a war veteran from Afghanistan.

[Tyrannical]

The presumptive Republican nominee denounced the police deaths as "a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe." Clinton says she is mourning the officers killed "while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters."


Lying crooked Hillary, the police were not there to protect the peaceful protestors. They were there to keep them from rioting, looting, and destroying property. 800 protesters, 100 cops. Ridiculous. Oh, and they were chanting Fuck the Police too.