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THE WAR ON COPS: Police Shot in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri

Posted on | July 8, 2016 | 54 Comments

Thursday’s attack that killed five police officers in Dallas — inspired by the hate group “Black Lives Matter” — was part of an ongoing wave of violent racial terrorism targeting American law enforcement. In Tennessee, a police officer was wounded Thursday in a gun battle with a man who went on a shooting spree that apparently targeted white people, in which one woman was killed and two other people were injured:

According to the [Tennessee Bureau of Investigation], the shooter was Lakeem Keon Scott, 37, and was armed with at least two weapons including an automatic-style rifle and a pistol and a large amount of ammunition at approximately 2:20 a.m. Thursday when he fired shots through the window of the Days Inn on Volunteer Parkway, striking the clerk.
Scott also appears to have, at some point, fired randomly at several vehicles driving on Volunteer Parkway before being confronted by officers from the Bristol Tennessee Police Department. During that exchange, the investigation shows Scott fired at the three responding officers, after which the officers returned fire, striking Scott, who was then taken to Bristol Regional Medical Center, he remains in serious, but stable, condition.
Jennifer Rooney was killed after being shot in her vehicle on Volunteer Parkway.
Other victims include Deborah Watts, the clerk at Days Inn, who is in serious, but stable condition at Bristol Regional Medical Center.
David Whitman Davis had minor injuries at the scene after being injured by flying glass from the gunfire.
Officer Matthew Cousins was wounded in the leg but has been treated and released from Bristol Regional Medical Center.

An officer was ambushed Friday morning in Georgia:

The GBI says that the suspect, identified as 22-year-old Stephen Paul Beck, called 911 on Friday morning to report a vehicle break-in and then ambushed and fired at the responding officer upon arrival.
A press release from GBI reads:
On Friday, July 08, 2016, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was requested by the Valdosta Police Department to investigate an officer involved shooting incident that occurred at Three Oaks Apartments in Valdosta.
Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 7:54 AM, Valdosta Police Officer Randall Hancock was dispatched to the apartment complex regarding a vehicle break-in and damage to property call. The caller, identified as Stephen Paul Beck, age 22, reported that his car had been broken into and needed police to respond. At approximately 8:12 AM, Officer Hancock arrived at the apartment complex. Upon exiting his patrol car, Officer Hancock was fired upon, striking him at least twice in his protective vest and once beneath the vest in the abdomen area. Officer Hancock returned fire, striking the individual and stopping him from firing at him. The individual was unknown to Officer Hancock at the time of the encounter and it was later determined the individual was Beck, the 911 caller.
Officer Hancock was taken to an area hospital where he was treated and is in stable condition. Beck was also transported to an area hospital where he remains in serious condition.

Another officer was ambushed Friday in a St. Louis suburb:

A Ballwin Police officer was in critical condition after he was shot in the neck during a traffic stop late Friday morning, police said.
The male officer had stopped the car for speeding on northbound New Ballwin Road about 11 a.m., police said. As the officer went back to his car, the driver got out, “advanced quickly” and fired three shots at the officer, police said.
Said St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar: “Make no mistake, we believe that Ballwin officer was ambushed.”
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch agreed.
“It was clearly an ambush, an attack,” he said. “There was no confrontation, no argument, no nothing.”
He also said it appeared that one of the shots might have been fired after the officer fell.
The gunman fled north on New Ballwin Road and was captured in Manchester several miles northeast of the shooting scene, after jumping out of the car and running, police said.
A semi-automatic handgun was recovered, according to St. Louis County Police, who are handling the investigation.
The suspect, identified as Antonio Taylor, 31, of the 1200 block of Tower Grove Avenue in St. Louis, was charged with first-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a weapon. Bail was set at $500,000.
Court documents said Taylor used a .22-caliber gun to shoot the officer. Authorities say he has a lengthy criminal history.

Meanwhile in Dallas, evidence suggests that the terrorist gunman Micah Johnson had been planning anti-police violence for some time:

The brazen attack in downtown Dallas that killed five police officers and injured nine other people was the act of a lone gunman, an Afghanistan veteran drawn to Black Power symbology and a determination to kill white people, authorities concluded Friday.
“This was a mobile shooter that has written manifestos on how to shoot and move. He did that. He did his damage. But we did our damage to him, as well,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said after police carefully questioned and ruled out other potential suspects in the Thursday night rampage.
Investigators discovered bomb-making materials, rifles and a “personal journal of combat tactics” in the home of the black former Army reservist who struck during a demonstration against the shooting of two black men by white police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana.
Authorities identified the gunman as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, a Dallas-area resident, a “loner” with no criminal history who “wanted to kill white people” and “especially white officers,” police said. . . .
Police detonated a bomb robot to kill Johnson after they cornered him in a garage early Friday morning — an unprecedented technique for American law enforcement, but one that troops have used in Iraq to attack targets with mines.
Before his death, Johnson “bantered” with police negotiators, a federal official said, adding that the suspect appeared to have been preparing for the assault, and did not appear nervous. At one point, the gunman had told officials, “The end is coming, and he’s going to hurt and kill more of us,” Dallas Police Chief David Brown said.
“This was a well-planned, well-thought-out, evil tragedy,” the police chief said.

Creating hatred against white people and against police has been the major accomplishing of Black Lives Matter since its inception in 2014, when the liberal media and activists promoted a false narrative surrounding the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as Heather Mac Donald explains in her recent book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe:

After Brown’s death, rioters torched and looted Ferguson businesses. . . .
In the months that followed, the lie that Brown had died in a racially motivated police execution was amplified by the media, college presidents, and the left-wing political class. The newly formed Black Lives Matter movement promoted the notion that black Americans were being hunted down and killed with impunity by renegade white police officers. . . .
Slandered in the media and targeted on the streets, officers reverted to a model of purely reactive policing . . . The inevitable result? Violent crime surged in city after city, as criminals began reasserting themselves — a phenomenon that I and others controversially described as the “Ferguson effect.”

The lies told about the death of Michael Brown were the evil spark that lit the fuse of an explosion of hatred and violence. Innocent people are suffering because cop-haters, race hustlers, cynical Democrat politicians and their henchmen in the liberal media will not tell the truth about crime in America.

It is very easy, in a nation of 320 million people, to find examples of bad things happening — whether it’s rape on college campuses or teachers having sex with students. Yet for many months now, I’ve watched CNN go into 24/7 wall-to-wall coverage mode about shooting incidents that make police seem racist — even though such incidents are actually quite rare. Jim Geraghty of National Review pointed out the actual numbers Thursday morning:

The Washington Post compiled a database of all police shootings in the country and found 990 people were shot dead by police in 2015. Of those, only 93 were unarmed; 38 were black and unarmed. Of the 505 people shot dead by police in 2016 so far, 37 were unarmed; 13 were black and unarmed.

While 990 people being killed by police in one year is a rather frightening number, however, (a) more than 90% of suspects shot were armed, and (b) this is a nation of 320 million people, so that getting shot by police is actually a tiny statistical fraction  — a very rare event. Meanwhile, in Chicago, criminals have shot more than 2,000 people this year, including more than 300 fatal shootings. More that 75% of the victims were black. Only 9 people have been shot by cops in Chicago this year, so the criminals are killing a lot more black people in Chicago than the police are, and this is true everywhere. However, the hate group Black Lives Matter isn’t interested in facts, they’re interested in creating more hatred.

Professor Donald Douglas at American Power writes:

Frankly, years ago I compared the contemporary American radical left to the Baader-Meinhof Group from the 1970s. Bob Schieffer was on CBS This Morning today, and he asked the $64,000 question: Was the Dallas suspect part of a larger organized movement? He may not have been, but I suspect that we’re likely to see an escalation of deliberate, organized violence to match the vicious calculation and brutality seen in Dallas last night.

The Baader-Meinhof Gang aka “Red Army Faction” was a Marxist group in Germany that more or less invented modern terrorism. That this kind of comparison is being made to the American Left tells you just how far downhill our nation has gone in recent years. It’s bad and getting worse. In Dallas, the cop-hating terrorist Micah Johnson killed Officer Patrick Zamarripam, who had survived three tours of Iraq.




 

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54 Responses to “THE WAR ON COPS: Police Shot in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    July 8th, 2016 @ 9:37 pm

    #CopsLivesMatter ?

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  3. Daniel Freeman
    July 8th, 2016 @ 11:57 pm

    It’s bad enough when Already-Americans use their military training for ill ends, but some traitors at the top actually want to let illegals into our military. The fools! Do they not remember how Rome fell?!

  4. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 9th, 2016 @ 7:27 am

    This has been the ultimate unintended consequences of the Great Society.

  5. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 8:27 am

    Add Phoenix to the list. I’m told it was pretty intense. No shooting though, except pepper spray.

    http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/07/09/phoenix-rally-turns-confrontational/86882956/

  6. Steve Skubinna
    July 9th, 2016 @ 9:59 am

    “Black Lives Matter?” What is this, some new racist code dog whistle for white male Christian Republican NRA members? I need to update my Racist Dictionary immediately! Get me Chris Mathews, stat! He’s probably holed up in his all white gated community with armed security.

    I don’t think the left has quite yet gotten what they’ve been working towards the past four decades. Not yet. But when they do get it, I think they will very quickly decide they don’t want it after all.

    And it will be too damn late. For all of us. I fear for the Republic.

  7. CrustyB
    July 9th, 2016 @ 10:27 am

    If BLM received 1/1,000th of the scrutiny from the press that Sarah Palin & the Tea Party suffered after Kathy Giffords got shot, this country might actually start approaching sanity again.

    According to http://HeyJackass.com, the Chicago crime stats tracker, there were 2,090 shootings in his city last year. 16 were by cops. That’s 0.007. But who are the savages whining about? The cops. Because they want to “honor” a man who threatened numerous people at a store and resisted arrest with a gun on him.

  8. WarEagle82
    July 9th, 2016 @ 10:27 am

    So now we have BLM lunatics plus illegal alien felons and gangs plus jihadis imported by our own government plus the standard home-grown criminals to deal with. Looks like ammo sales will be way up for the rest of the year.

    He promised “fundamental change” and he is delivering on that promise.

  9. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 11:43 am

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  10. M. Thompson
    July 9th, 2016 @ 11:44 am

    A nation should be defended by it’s people, not by imported mercenaries.

  11. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 11:54 am

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  12. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 11:55 am

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  13. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 9th, 2016 @ 12:30 pm

    Philando Castile Was an Armed Robbery Suspect

    Saint Anthony, MN, Police Officers Jeronimo Yanez and Joseph Kauser pulled over Mr. Castile and Ms. Reynolds because the driver, Philando Castile, matched the suspect profile in an armed robbery which occurred on July 2nd, at a convenience store, only a few blocks from where their car was pulled over.

    The armed robbery occurred on July 2nd 7:30pm (Sat). The CCTV images were given to media and LEO by detectives on July 5th (Tuesday). A BOLO (Be On Look Out) alert was issued the same day, Tuesday July 5th. Philando Castile was pulled over on July 6th.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/08/confirmed-philando-castile-was-an-armed-robbery-suspect-false-media-narrative-now-driving-cop-killings/

  14. CrustyB
    July 9th, 2016 @ 2:27 pm

    You have to love the mentaility of Black Lives Matter:
    Police have to allow violent, mindless savages to chimp out and assault & kill them, or they will assault & kill you like they did in Dallas.

    Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization.

  15. DeadMessenger
    July 9th, 2016 @ 3:42 pm

    Not only do they not remember how Rome fell, most of them have no idea whatsoever that there ever was a Roman Empire.

    I mean, I think it was Mark Dice who asked some college students to name a country whose name starts with “U” and they couldn’t. The stupidity…it burns.

  16. DeadMessenger
    July 9th, 2016 @ 3:43 pm

    There seems to be a lot of those.

  17. DeadMessenger
    July 9th, 2016 @ 3:46 pm

    Member of the Thomas Sowell/Uncle Tom club. Didn’t he know that intelligence is not appreciated? /sarc

  18. Steve Skubinna
    July 9th, 2016 @ 3:48 pm

    Intelligence is a construct of the patriarchy devised to keep women and minorities oppressed.

    People like Thomas Sowell haven’t figured that out yet.

  19. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 4:15 pm

    Ha!

    I can go better with Sowell!! Just watch me.

  20. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 4:25 pm

    …

  21. Delaney Coffer
    July 9th, 2016 @ 5:16 pm

    One wonders how the hate filled freaks at the so called Southern Poverty Law Center would categorize the domestic terrorist group calling itself “black lives matter”.

  22. DeadMessenger
    July 9th, 2016 @ 5:38 pm

    That guy is amazing. He’s brilliant. I love his writings.

  23. Dianna Deeley
    July 9th, 2016 @ 5:44 pm

    I’m so angry and sad that I keep having to fight having a toddler meltdown.

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    July 9th, 2016 @ 5:47 pm

    I know it’s old, but I’m borrowing. Thank you!

  25. Dianna Deeley
    July 9th, 2016 @ 5:49 pm

    What will bring in the donations?

  26. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 6:37 pm

    You’re welcome.

    I’m happy to share freedom ideas.

  27. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 6:48 pm

    Put him and Walter Williams together and watch modern progressives shake.

  28. Kirby McCain
    July 9th, 2016 @ 6:48 pm

    With cronies like Bill Ayers is it too much of a stretch to suggest that dear leader’s finger prints are all over this? This is all really just a pep rally before the big game in Cleveland, isn’t it?

  29. NeoWayland
    July 9th, 2016 @ 6:53 pm

    And just because you were nice.

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  31. Daniel Freeman
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:39 am

    Honestly? This should be right up their alley. The $PLC’s go-to fundraising tactic is fearmongering, but they normally have to manufacture the danger.

    When it comes time to scare up some dough from the anxious little old ladies on their mailing list, they should be excited to have a racial hate & domestic terror group that is actually targeting white people for murder.

    The $PLC is a lazy scam, yet they can’t be bothered to take 10 minutes to get free money. It kind of blows my mind! That’s how partisan they really are.

  32. Daniel Freeman
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:52 am

    The way I see it, Obama and other leading leftists are using the “praise with faint damns” technique to dogwhistle social approval to lone wolves, in a sort of “tsk tsk, so rude — but…” kind of way.

    That optimizes for maximum plausible deniability, but with perhaps not as many casualties as they would like, and also no control. For example, Dallas was a disaster for their ’68 hopes & dreams for Cleveland, since now the police there are actually taking it seriously, which they weren’t before.

  33. Daniel Freeman
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:55 am

    So true, and why anarcho-tyranny is a thing.

  34. Daniel Freeman
    July 10th, 2016 @ 1:01 am

    As a student of rhetoric, a modest suggestion:

    In a Republic,
    you are opaque
    and the government is transparent.
    In a Tyranny,
    those are reversed.

  35. A_Nonny_Mouse
    July 10th, 2016 @ 1:16 am

    Well, if the Black Mafia that occupies our FedGov can just nudge a liitttle bit harder, they might manage to push the country into widespread, full-on race riots.

    At lease, it seems to *me* that’s what they’ve been aiming for since George Zimmerman (cleverly labeled a “White Hispanic” by our MFMSM) lethally defended himself from Trayvon Martin.

  36. Daniel Freeman
    July 10th, 2016 @ 3:21 am

    Wow, uh, let’s see how many landmasses I can hit off the top of my head: Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom… Dang. Too bad I can’t think of one for North America. If only there were a United something of America.

  37. NeoWayland
    July 10th, 2016 @ 6:41 am

    Pretty much.

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    July 10th, 2016 @ 6:44 am

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  39. MichaelAdams
    July 10th, 2016 @ 8:15 am

    This is so crazy. Thirteen percent of the population can not defeat the other eighty seven percent in a full on race war. Even with the machinery of government in their corner, the result would inevitably be the eventual annihilation of the thirteen percent. If I wanted to turn us into a Whites Only country, egging on the dumber ones among the thirteen percent to start a race war would be, ultimately, the most certain way to do it.I do understand that “liberals” are severely math deficient, but surely someone among them can count?

  40. Daniel Freeman
    July 10th, 2016 @ 9:39 am

    Michael, consider the picture that these paint when put together:

    1. Black individuals can count, but apparently their community can’t. I’ve heard that as a group, American blacks think that they, whites, and mestizos are each about a third of the U.S. population. Why? It just “feels” like that to them.

    2. Leading progressive whites and (((whites))) are quite well educated and surely know better. However, if we look at the outcomes of their policies, the weight of the evidence is that they want to destroy* urban black communities.

    3. At all levels, American law enforcement agencies have been militarizing heavily for a long time now. There are rumors that they regularly train for martial law, considering it inevitable.

    4. If they were going to impose law on the ghetto, they would’ve done it already. If and when martial law comes, it will come down most heavily on those least likely to resist, i.e. the law-abiding.

    5. He who pays the piper calls the tune, and under the sneaky auspices of the War on Drugs, local law enforcement agencies have been gradually liberated from local funding and addicted to Federal (i.e. Coastal) money.

    6. Both establishments of the bifactional ruling party are globalist. They don’t even believe in national sovereignty, so individual freedom must be pure anathema to them.

    * Why? Who knows? They consistently pretend otherwise, so all we know for sure is that since they aren’t dumb, they must be crazy or lying.

  41. DeadMessenger
    July 10th, 2016 @ 9:44 am

    BWAHAHAHAHA!

  42. Art Deco
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:36 pm

    Police killings run to about 350 per year for the most part, per the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. The accounting done by some of these advocacy groups is quite dubious. (I think they add things like people dying in prison).

  43. Art Deco
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:40 pm

    The $PLC is a seedy direct mail mill, and was exposed as such more than 15 years ago by Harper’s magazine, of all things. You contribute to them and you contribute to Mrs. Morris Dees already extensive collection of odd knick-knacks.

    That the newspapers quote them shows that reporters and editors are pig ignorant of utterly dishonest.

  44. Art Deco
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:44 pm

    I would not quote Sundance about the time of day.

    That aside, whether or not Officer Yanez is culpable will depend on the granular features of his interaction with Castile.

    From the descriptions offered of Castile, he sounds like a chronic f***-up (a half-dozen traffic and parking tickets every year for 14 years), not a predatory criminal.

  45. Art Deco
    July 10th, 2016 @ 12:46 pm

    There are rumors that they regularly train for martial law, considering it inevitable.

    There are rumors I am Marie of Roumania.

  46. Art Deco
    July 10th, 2016 @ 1:06 pm

    The statements signed by Medusa Wasserman Schulz of the DNC and the chairman of the Congresssional Black Caucus is to be found here

    https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/751410280626843648

    Note that it’s the fourth paragraph when they mention Dallas, calling it … ‘unacceptable’.

  47. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 10th, 2016 @ 1:30 pm

    Just because he was stopped for looking like the suspect doesn’t mean he was (I’m inclined to think it was just a resemblance) however it does change the narrative and I don’t believe Girlfriend Lavish Reynolds narrative.

  48. Quartermaster
    July 10th, 2016 @ 2:48 pm

    There are indications that you also possess some intelligence. We see those from time to time here.

    He’s being kind. It’s actually more than just rumors. The problem is, however, the Police get bypassed in martial law as they are not part of the military establishment.

  49. Quartermaster
    July 10th, 2016 @ 2:52 pm

    There are those, however, that are doing everything they can to push things along in the direction they seem to be taking.

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