An officer is killed and 3 others wounded during a standoff in a Texas town

[TexasTowelie]

Source: CNN

An officer was killed and three others were wounded during a standoff involving a barricaded person in Levelland, Texas, on Thursday, according to police.

"The Lubbock County Sheriff's Office is mourning the loss of one of our own, tonight, SWAT Commander Sergeant Josh Bartlett," it said in a statement.

The department's SWAT team responded to the 1100 block of 10th Street in Levelland, following reports of a person barricaded and shots fired, according to the police.

"Shortly after arrival, gunfire was exchanged and Sgt. Bartlett was shot. Sgt. Bartlett was transported to Covenant Medical Center in Levelland with life-threatening injuries where he was later pronounced deceased," the statement said.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/us/lubbock-texas-shooting-thursday/index.html

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Link to local media which states that four people were injured. The gunman is still barricaded.

Lubbock County Sheriff's SWAT officer killed, 4 others injured in standoff in Levelland

A Lubbock County Sheriff's SWAT officer was killed and four other officers were wounded during a standoff with a barricaded person that lasted into Thursday evening, officials confirmed.

The standoff that began shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday by 9 p.m. remained a "violent, volatile situation," with an armed man still barricaded inside a house surrounded by dozens of local, state and federal law enforcement officials, Levelland Police Chief Albert Garcia said during news conference.

He was joined by Lubbock County Sheriff Kelly Rowe, who expressed his grief at the loss of his SWAT team's commander, Sgt. Josh Bartlett, while acknowledging officials were still dealing with a live scene.

More at https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/2021/07/15/3-levelland-police-officers-wounded-during-ongoing-standoff/7984845002/ .

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Police or 2nd Amendtors I choose police.

[Grins]

4. Why police are not walking the halls of Congress...

…going door-to-door to force Congress to do something about the proliferation of guns I’ll never understand.

Until they do, “thoughts and prayers” dudes!

[LiberatedUSA]

12. Force how?

[sarisataka]

16. Very good question

I find the thought of police wandering around Congress forcing Representatives to do anything rather disturbing.

[azureblue]

17. money

Simply give the congress critters more bribery money than the gun lobby does.

[YMB]

19. Sounds like a good case FOR the prolification of guns.

[quakerboy]

22. Because most of them are pro gun

And I suspect they know somewhere deep down that if we reduced the number of guns in the country enough to make it so gun violence was no longer a useful threat come election time, the perception that we need to give police military surplus to play with and massive budgets would be a much much harder sell.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Oh Well

Freedom!

[Justice matters.]

3. Suicided by SWAT...

One less responsible gun owner...

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Huh? The one death was the police officer

The man who shot him (just described as 22 years old, nothing more) was taken into custody.

[roamer65]

5. It is what it is.

[C Moon]

6. Guns are such an important part of society. :/

[greenjar_01]

7. Is that one of them there Democrat run cities

Or nah?

[LuckyLib]

8. 13,000+ folks in a small town outside Lubbock. So sad. If he had no other person

in the house with him, I would have waited him out until he died of starvation or ended it himself.

[multigraincracker]

9. I'm seeing a pattern here.

More military weapons for cops. More military weapons for the citizens. More of these situations lead to more military weapons for citizens, more for citizens and all of a sudden the gun dealers are all getting rich and richer.

Follow the god damn fricken money.

Now it makes sense.

[quakerboy]

23. You realise the gun dealers are roughly equivalent to the street corner dealer

They are small potatoes in all reality. Most are just people trying to get by, a portion are corrupt and unlikable, some are truly a menace to their local society.. but minor really, except for the handful of people directly harmed by them..

Follow the money.

The gun industry is approx 28b

The law enforcement industry is 100b.

Add in the incarceration industry for another 80b.

And then defense industry because the military needs new fancy gear to replace what it gives to police departments, for at least another 20B.

Follow the money.

[duhneece]

11. I got a call from my daughter. She was sobbing saying one of 'her guys' was killed

Daughter works for Lubbock Sheriff Office. She is crushed.

[twodogsbarking]

13. Just another gun collector.

Relax.

[duhneece]

14. This is good policing. Even a man who shot 4 officers...

…was not killed. An 11-hour stand-off but there was enough desire to save a life, not to storm the house… is, to me, a good sign of great law enforcement.

[Probatim]

15. Or he was white.

Same situation in Pittsburgh - angry white man shoots up a synagogue and kills a few cops and is allowed to surrender.

It's shown over and over and over again.

[sarisataka]

18. White-ish?

[duhneece]

20. Not very white-ish

Omar Soto-Chavira.

[Probatim]

21. Call me astonished!