Suspect Arrested in Ambush and Attempted Assassination of St. Louis Police Officer

[Locutus]

A St. Louis Police Officer was ambushed and shot in the Central West End last night.

“They targeted, they ambushed, they tried to assassinate a police officer,” Chief Dotson said.

Police officer shot in Central West End.

St. Louis Today reported:

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A St. Louis police officer was shot in the Central West End early Tuesday morning.
The officer was in the area of North Euclid and Maryland when he was shot in the torso just before 5 a.m. It is unknown how many times he was shot.

According to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, the officer was wearing a bullet proof vest at the time of the shooting.
At the hospital with an officer who was shot by a suspect. His ballistic vest did its job tonight. We have a lot to be thankful for.
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The Central West End is saturated with cameras and police are reviewing the footage to identify the suspects.

– Chief Sam Dotson (@ChiefSLMPD) July 14, 2015

The officer was conscious and breathing when he was transported to the hospital after the shooting, police said.

Authorities have not released any information on what lead to the shooting or any details about suspects.


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[grainfedpraiboy]

Both the officer and gunmen are black. The officer was in uniform but working a second job as a security guard. The car is his personal vehicle. The three shooters first drove by then returned a few minutes later to try and murder him. No words were exchanged.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

 

[grainfedpraiboy]

What you don' get as evidenced by your cartoon is the police officer is a paid representative of the community who risks his or her life everyday in the defence of that community, is constantly placed in adversarial circumstances as part of the job description and should be afforded a degree of protection by the employer as any other government worker is. The citizen on the other hand generally holds all the cards over whether a confrontation escalates or not in the first place.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

What you don' get as evidenced by your cartoon is the police officer is a paid representative of the community who risks his or her life everyday in the defence of that community, is constantly placed in adversarial circumstances as part of the job description and should be afforded a degree of protection by the employer as any other government worker is. The citizen on the other hand generally holds all the cards over whether a confrontation escalates or not in the first place.

Well, carte blanche to shoot anybody you feel like is a pretty good protection.

 

[grainfedpraiboy]

Well, carte blanche to shoot anybody you feel like is a pretty good protection.

I've told this story before but I remember sitting in a room with 10 or so Bosnian Croats and Serbs screaming at each other and banging fists on the table as the group tried to negotiate a DPRE return agreement and I was there to oversee the discussion and even though my interpreter was doing her best to keep up for me I couldn't focus and all I could think about was unholstering my revolver and shooting them. I recall quite seriously entertaining the thought for at least a few brief moments.

I think your position is overall extreme and unwarranted. The vast majority of police officers are professional and afford considerable grace and benefit of the doubt on suspects. Given what the average officer deals with everyday I am genuinely surprised there are not far more questionable shootings.

 

[gerryh]

. The citizen on the other hand generally holds all the cards over whether a confrontation escalates or not in the first place.

Bullshyte.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I've told this story before but I remember sitting in a room with 10 or so Bosnian Croats and Serbs screaming at each other and banging fists on the table as the group tried to negotiate a DPRE return agreement and I was there to oversee the discussion and even though my interpreter was doing her best to keep up for me I couldn't focus and all I could think about was unholstering my revolver and shooting them. I recall quite seriously entertaining the thought for at least a few brief moments.

I think your position is overall extreme and unwarranted. The vast majority of police officers are professional and afford considerable grace and benefit of the doubt on suspects. Given what the average officer deals with everyday I am genuinely surprised there are not far more questionable shootings.

You and I don't disagree on that. I got no problem with cops. I got a problem with a system that allows them to abuse people without consequences if they feel like it. I'm well aware that most of them choose to be brave, hard-working, kind, and concerned. But threat analysis deals with capabilities, not intentions.

 

[grainfedpraiboy]

I'm well aware that most of them choose to be brave, hard-working, kind, and concerned. But threat analysis deals with capabilities, not intentions.

I believe the police already have their hands tied a lot more tightly then say 20 years ago and by and large most professional police officers support these initiatives. In the future there will be more regulations as technology and the law catch up. However, I do not believe that outside of the most extreme and isolated cases, any police officer commits acts of murder or extreme and unnecessary violence because they don't happen to favour the religion or colour of skin of someone they are arresting.

I'm reminded of the police officer at an Eskimos game who was physically attacked by a drunk fan in a wheel chair. I was there and remember thinking at the time that if someone posted the picture of the scuffle on the internet the optics for the officer involved would be really bad even though he was 100% in the right in trying to restrain him.

I guess I still have faith overall in the integrity of our police and sympathy for the largely crappy job they have to do.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I believe the police already have their hands tied a lot more tightly then say 20 years ago and by and large most professional police officers support these initiatives. In the future there will be more regulations as technology and the law catch up. However, I do not believe that outside of the most extreme and isolated cases, any police officer commits acts of murder or extreme and unnecessary violence because they don't happen to favour the religion or colour of skin of someone they are arresting.

I'm reminded of the police officer at an Eskimos game who was physically attacked by a drunk fan in a wheel chair. I was there and remember thinking at the time that if someone posted the picture of the scuffle on the internet the optics for the officer involved would be really bad even though he was 100% in the right in trying to restrain him.

I guess I still have faith overall in the integrity of our police and sympathy for the largely crappy job they have to do.

Will you listen to yourself?

You have faith in the overall integrity of the police, so you're perfectly OK with no meaningful investigation or prosecution when they do abuse people.

Guess what? Most of the population are decent, hardworking, law-abiding folk. Does that mean we shouldn't prosecute the small percentage who commit murder?

 

[gerryh]

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oh yes, they are WONDERFUL individuals.

 

[grainfedpraiboy]

You have faith in the overall integrity of the police, so you're perfectly OK with no meaningful investigation or prosecution when they do abuse people.

I'm not sure how you drew that conclusion. I support the administering of the rule of law as a check and balance on our police forces as generally do the police themselves. We have only been moving in a direction of more professional policing over the past century and that will continue.

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oh yes, they are WONDERFUL individuals.

I think this is more the norm:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...shooting-suspect-still-at-large/article189988