War on Cops - Page 9

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry spoke Saturday on her show about African-Americans fear police officers at this time after recent deaths of blacks at the hands of police officers such as Sandra Bland and Samuel DuBose. Harris-Perry first pointed out that nobody should be killed for not

Andrew Romero, the suspect in the Memorial Day shooting death of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Officer Gregg “Nigel” Benner, is a felon who is consequently barred from gun possession.

One month after the Baltimore riots, less visible violence still engulfs the city. It was seen over the Memorial Day Weekend via 26 shootings, nine of which were fatal.

On Sunday morning, a Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) officer was shot and killed while driving his squad car. New Orleans Police Department Supt. Michael Harrison said “the 45-year-old HANO officer was driving in Central City when he was fatally shot.”

Shortly after news broke of the deaths of Hattiesburg Police Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate, a woman wearing what appeared to be a Subway sandwich shop uniform wrote a Facebook post expressing her seeming joy over their deaths. News is now breaking that the woman’s store location was tracked down, and Subway has terminated her.

The mother of Hattiesburg cop killer suspect Marvin Banks says her son is a regular drug user and she has “no doubt” he killed Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate on Saturday night.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — One was a decorated “Officer of the Year.” The other was a proud recent graduate of the academy who had wanted to be a policeman since he was a boy. A routine traffic stop led to their shooting deaths Saturday night — the first Hattiesburg police officers to die in the line of duty in more than 30 years — and four people were arrested, including two who were charged with capital murder.

Felons, like the Curtis brothers, face 100 percent gun control and are completely barred from gun possession. But the deaths of Deen and Tate show that even this level of gun control does not curtail the actions of persons with alleged criminal intent.

On Saturday night, two Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officers identified as Benjamin J. Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25 were shot and killed. Law enforcement officials have taken three suspects into custody, identified as 26-year-old Curtis Banks and his 29-year-old brother, Marvin Banks, along with Joanie Calloway, age unknown.

On April 30, Micheal Moore tweeted his “demand” that police be disarmed and “every African-American currently incarcerated for…nonviolent offenses [be] released from prison today.”

Georgia Police and federal agents have arrested Ebony Monique Dickens over a Facebook post in which she allegedly proclaimed her plans to shoot “every white cop” she can find.

On Saturday, The Washington Post claimed we have a problem in this country wherein cops shoot unarmed people in the back and face no ramifications or very minor ones at the most.

Angelo West, the 41-year-old gunman who allegedly shot Boston Police Officer John Moynihan on March 27, was prohibited from gun possession.

On March 28, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the push away from gun control and toward expanded gun rights–which means more armed, law-abiding citizens–actually puts police lives in danger.

Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers (D-Omaha) is facing a major backlash for comments he made on March 20 comparing American police officers to ISIS terrorists and talking about shooting them.

On March 4 at around 1:30 a.m., a Fulton County, Georgia, police officer was shot and killed in an ambush.

On February 21 an unidentified criminal shot Minneapolis police officer Jordan Davis after he responded to a burglary call around 5 AM.

On February 18, The Washington Post highlighted five countries where “officers are unarmed when they are on patrol” and suggested that unarmed officers “have saved lives–exactly because they were unable to shoot.”

Denver police are facing a backlash from Latinos after shooting Jessica Hernandez during a “joy ride” in a stolen car when she allegedly tried to run them down.

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow is “fuming” over the fact that his black son was stopped and questioned by police on Saturday as they searched for a black robbery suspect.

Body cam video from fallen Flagstaff, Arizona, Officer Tyler Stewart has now been released. It shows Stewart talking to Robert Smith–a domestic violence suspect he was questioning–for approximately 13 minutes, and ends with Smith pulling the gun with which he

California Assemblyman Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) believes local district attorneys too often give police the benefit of the doubt in investigations where police fatally shoot suspects, and he wants to remedy that by adding an oversight board to impartially investigate every shooting.

A man in Pennsylvania was shot and killed by police when he tried to run them down with his car on Tuesday.

We seem to have a trend here: I’d go so far as to call it a “narrative.” Police officers are denounced as racist killers, an invading army occupying black neighborhoods.

The ‘War on Cops” so visible since Michael Brown’s death in August, was long an undertone before becoming an overtone. In other words, it was already there and has been there for some time.

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will conduct a number of interviews and talk about the most important news of the week including UKIP leader Nigel Farage being named the Times of London “Man of the Year,” the ongoing war on cops taking place throughout the country, and the War in Afghanistan.

On December 23, a Berkeley, Missouri, police officer shot and killed a teen who pulled a gun and pointed it at him. Thereafter, “approximately 100 protesters” gathered, some of whom jumped and assaulted police, hitting them with bricks.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) apparently has no regard at all for concerns expressed by New York City cops or their union spokespersons in the wake of the assassination of two of their colleagues. Rangel gives NYC Mayor de Blasio a

When cars drove by New Bedford, Massachusetts’ Alma Del Mar Charter School around lunch on December 12, they saw an unusual sight: seven and 8-year-old students standing by the roadway holding signs in support of deceased strong-arm robbery suspect Michael