Police officer gunned down is the 5th killed in the US this year

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Susannah Cullinane and Hollie Silverman, CNN

Updated 7:15 AM ET, Mon January 21, 2019

(CNN) - An Alabama police officer has died after being shot on Sunday, according to the Mobile Police Department.

Officer Sean Tuder, 30, was shot by a suspect with prior warrants while doing follow up work on an investigation, Police Chief Lawrence Battiste told a press conference covered by CNN affiliate WKRG.

The suspect, Marco Perez, 19, was taken into custody, he said.

WKRG reported that District Attorney Ashley Rich has authorized capital murder charges against Perez.


Read more: https://us.cnn.com/2019/01/21/us/alabama-officer-shot/index.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. It's so obvious we need more guns in the hands of the American public.

No reason to restrict them.

[Igel]

3. Most police groups are pro gun-control.

Because an armed population, from their view point, is a dangerous population. A criminal with a knife is dangerous; a criminal with a gun is more dangerous to civilians and to police.

However, a human being's dead and his wife a widow.

[Cattledog]

5. The Fraternal Order of Police Endorsed Trump. Nuff said.

[dhol82]

2. I will guess that the suspect is a US citizen

Otherwise it would be all over the news.

[melm00se]

4. here is a report that reports on a survey

of felons on how they get their firearms

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf

Tables 5, 6 & 7

[Aristus]

6. ALL LIVES MATTER!

I wonder how the 'Blue Lives Matter' crowd would feel if someone shouted that at his funeral, the way the supporters of extra-judicial murder do when an innocent, unarmed black man is killed.