Again! Three more cops killed
It can’t be, am I hearing this right? Followed by a series of expletives.
That’s what I asked myself when I heard the news Sunday that more cops were killed and wounded, this time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Baton Rouge Police Officer, Montrell Jackson, 32 killed. Baton Rouge Police Officer, Matthew Gerald, 41 killed. East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Deputy, Brad Garafola, 45 killed.
Another police officer and a deputy suffered non-life threatening wounds.
East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Deputy, Nicholas Tullien, 41 who was shot in the head and chest, is currently in intensive care, fighting for his life.
These were ambush attacks and assassinations of law enforcement officers, plain and simple.
It’s bad enough when cops in this country get killed on the job, but targeting law enforcement for nothing more than who they are and what they represent is appalling.
A dangerous trend that has to stop.
Any individual or group that calls for the killing of police officers, either verbally or on websites on the Internet should become the subject of scrutiny and investigation by local, state and federal officers.
Enough said on that in this article, more for a later time.
Montrell, Matthew and Brad. Rest in Peace.
End of Watch, Sunday 7/17/16.
Main photo courtesy of the Baton Rogue Police Department’s Facebook page
Doug authored over 135 articles on the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas Massacre, more than any other single journalist in the country. He investigates stories on corruption, law enforcement and crime. Doug is a US Army Military Police Veteran, former police officer, deputy sheriff and criminal investigator. Doug spent 20 years in the hotel/casino industry as an investigator and then as Director of Security and Surveillance. He also spent a short time with the US Dept. of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration. In 1986 Doug was awarded Criminal Investigator of the Year by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia for his undercover work in narcotics enforcement. In 1992 and 1993 Doug testified in court that a sheriff’s office official and the county prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence during the 1988 trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of his wife. Doug’s testimony led to a judge’s decision to order the release of the man from prison in 1992 and awarded him a new trial, in which he was later acquitted. As a result of Doug breaking the police “blue wall of silence,” he was fired by the county sheriff. His story was featured on Inside Edition, Current Affair and CBS News’ “Street Stories with Ed Bradley”. In 1992 after losing his job, at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Doug infiltrated a group of men who were plotting the kidnapping of a Dupont fortune heir and his wife. Doug has been a guest on national television and radio programs speaking on the stories he now writes as an investigative journalist. Catch Doug’s Podcast: @dougpoppa1