About American police officers...

[peacetraveler22]

Over the weekend, my local community experienced horror and shock after three police officers were gunned down when they responded to a domestic violence call. An active Army Sergeant named Ronald Hamilton decided to slap his wife around yet again, with their young son in the home. The boy fled when the violence started, and escaped the bloody scene that followed. As soon as the three police officers arrived at the scene, Sergeant Hamilton began spraying bullets at them. Two remain in the hospital and one was fatally wounded. It's a tragic tale, and every officers worst nightmare. The victim was one of several female officers who had just graduated from the Prince William County Police Academy on Friday. She was killed on her very first night on the job. Only 28 years old. No, this was not a response call to some ghetto area, but to a nice, suburban neighborhood, where the average house costs around $500,000. The wife was already dead on the floor when police officers arrived.

The young police officer had a bright future, and previously worked in forensics. She's pictured here with the killer beside her. The local prosecutor promises to seek the death penalty in this case.



The other officers remain hospitalized.



My community rallied together last night  to hold a vigil for the fallen police officer, but I couldn't attend. The photos were pulled from various news sources.





I see a lot of idiotic comments about U.S. police officers here on LiveJournal, with the assumption that they are all running around shooting ordinary citizens. Yet people fail to remember that America is the most heavily armed civilian population on the planet, so of course the response by American officers is different and more reactive. Statistics vary depending on the site you visit, but in 2015 American police fatally shot around 1,000 people. About 564 of the people shot were armed with a gun, 281 had some other type of weapon, and 90 were unarmed. This Chart attempts to summarize the police killings based on gender, race and other factors.



I'm very liberal on most social issues, but I don't like the anti-cop agenda that is now prevalent in some cross-sections of America, and I especially hate the slogan that accompanies this movement - "Black Lives Matter." Please tell me your impressions of the American police, based on what you know and have read. Perhaps it's time to write a report on this topic, as I have friends who serve on the local police force in Arlington, Virginia. Have you had any positive or negative experiences with police officers in Russia or the USA?

Meanwhile, I hope the scum who murdered his wife and this female police officer is executed, and quickly...

Comments

[kremlin-curant.livejournal.com]

Of course if the crook would kept aftacking police he would be right to shoot him. But he run away. Are you sure it was more safe for the public for the officer to shoot him in the back than just followed him and shut out drop the knife otherwise I will kill you?

[peterkaymd.livejournal.com]

Well, lets look at the fact. A criminal attempted to murder a police office and did not surrender himself when failed in the attempt. The police officer responded to a deadly thread by shooting and killing the attacker, no one else was injured. I think the case is closed. We can speculate all we want but I think this case went by the book.

[kremlin-curant.livejournal.com]

You described nothing to close to what happened.
Let's compare to what happened in Florida and Ferguson. In there and there the black guys fight the police officer to the end. Obviously the lives of the both officers were jeopardized. But anyway black community was quick to put on the protest.

The Brighton's situation was completely different. Was the guy running down the street dangerous for the officers? No way. Were the bullets from police gun dangerous for the bystanders? Of course yes.
But nobody was protesting. Because there are invert racism and different mentality.

[alga.livejournal.com]

Was the guy running down the street dangerous for the officers?

Why are you talking only about danger to officers, not all other people in the vicinity? Let violent guy run down the street and take innocent bystander as hostage - is it an impossible scenario, or do you see it as a safer for a public?

[kremlin-curant.livejournal.com]

The running man from police can't be more dangerous than any idiot. You can't shoot them all.
I remember I walked down of my block and the old-looking policeman chased the running youngster. He could also start shooting in him and possible hit me or other folks But he just chased on his legs And succeed by the way. The guy was apprehended at the end.

[alga.livejournal.com]

The running man from police can't be more dangerous than any idiot.

As American lawyers sometimes answer even the questions that look most trivial, “It depends”, mostly on what has happened before that. Some underage idiot running from police on suspected petty shoplifting is one thing; the guy who just attempted to murder police officer (or anyone else, for that matter) with a deadly weapon is a completely different story.