scrawled a message in blood
Thought this was Trump’s oeuvre…
And yet he was able to get guns…
Right at this very moment the citizens who lost their lives the one in Minnesota and the other in Louisiana,its almost like those incidents never happen.
Holy crap. That’s horrific.
he seem’s to’ve left more than one message in blood…
And what might those letters be? Were they arranged into words like Helter-Skelter or something?
Anyone have a problem with the cops using a robot to kill this guy? I do. Just doesn’t sit well with me in general, even though that may have seemed like the best course of action at the time. Seems like a bad precedent though. If he was wounded ahead of finding where he was located, wouldn’t there have been a blood trail leading to where he was, before they went in and blew him up with a robot-carrying bomb? Just curious.
Things like this make me believe in evil.
If there has been any detailed reporting here on the five police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, I haven’t seen it. You can find their bios elsewhere, but to give us more info on the madman who killed them is wrong and disrespectful.
If they saved even one innocent life, then it’s a justified action. HOWEVER, every slack-jawed sheriff in every county, along with every police chief in every municipality, no matter how big or small, is going to put in an order for bomb-carrying robots now. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the net effect will be more chaos, not less.
ETA: And in the places where they can’t afford bomb-carrying robots, they’ll allocate resources from elsewhere (education, primarily).
I’m waiting for the NRA statement that home ownership of bomb throwing robots is protected under the sacred Second Amendment…
in case your neighbor’s dog or cat poops in your yard…
The video shows the assailant shooting a cop at point blank range, but the cop seems to get a few rounds off as well. Then there is a hail of bullet impacts on the concrete posts as he makes his way out to the street. He has to have been badly hurt during that encounter, though unfortunately still able to walk. Very very terrible luck the cop was looking right as he came left. Not sure why cop didn’t have someone assisting him to provide cover against that exact scenario. Terrible bad luck either way.
I agree that the idea they could simply execute him is disturbing–another instance of the police being judge and jury and executioner in one… If they could get to him with a robot, they knew where he was…
“I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.”
the improved version
Good story in Dallas Morning News today
Interactive. Jut click on the photo of each and their bio comes up.
Drones for all!
This is a very thorough look at their lives. Thanks. I’d read some stories about the five slain police officers at NYT, and here’s something unbearably sad from NYT about the wounded African American woman Shetamia Taylor who shielded her four sons.
Sherie Williams, Taylor’s other sister, could hardly believe it when she heard late Thursday that her sister, an Amazon employee, had been shot, a little more than a year since her 26-year-old son, Kavaarian Williams, was shot in a drive-by in downtown Minneapolis, where the sisters grew up.
Since you asked, I personally have no problem with using a robot in this particular instance. This shooter was going to kill anyone who came near him. NYPD Commissioner Bratton said about this about the use of robots and I agree
“This is an individual that killed five police officers,” he added. “So God bless ’em.”