Reply #3: Shame on the Examiner...

[beevul]

"Police Officer Isaac Espinoza joined the tragic and swelling ranks of cops killed with assault weapons when he was fatally shot with an AK-47 April 10."

http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/index.cfm/i/042604n_assault


Officer Espinoza was shot with a fully automatic AK-47, not an assault weapon.



"Officer Isaac Espinoza, 29-years-old, an eight-year veteran of the police department was on routine patrol in the troubled Bayview District with his partner, 38-year-old Officer Barry Parker. The officer’s stopped their vehicle and called out to a man acting suspiciously who was walking away from the police vehicle. Without warning, the man turned and began firing at the officers with an automatic weapon, later determined to be an AK-47, assault rifle."

http://www.camemorial.org/htm/espinoza04.htm

"On Saturday, April 10, 2004, 29 year-old Isaac Espinoza, an eight-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department, died In the Line of Duty after being mortally wounded by gunfire. At the time of the shooting, Officer Espinoza, along with 38 year-old Officer Barry Parker, was attempting to approach a man who was acting suspiciously. When Officer Espinoza and Officer Parker, both plainclothes officers assigned to the Police Department’s Bayview Station, spotted the suspicious man, they approached him in their vehicle and called out to him. The man turned to face the vehicle and opened fire with an automatic weapon."

http://www.nlpoa.org/In_memory2.htm