I remember the assassinations of police, and other crazy violence, being on the news. I probably started noticing this in 1968, with that crazy election cycle, which included the RFK assassination, and the violence in Chicago, at the time of the Democratic convention. The Seventies were a DANGEROUS time to be a police officer. Houston was still wild and wooly, into the Eighties, when Houston was still an oil boom town, while the rest of the USA was in a recession. By the time I was sworn, in early 1984, the annual death rate among Houston PD officers had radically changed for the better.
I was lucky, serving from 1984 to 2018, just missing the deadly Seventies, and the insane Twenty-Twenties.
Retar’d LE. Kinesthetic dufus.
Don’t tread on volcanos!
CMPD has been silent for the past 3 weeks on this and there have been no arrests. Thus, it does not appear that any shots were fired by the female occupants of the house. The initial reports sounded like the suspect engaged the team as they attempted to arrest him, was killed outside of his house, and then a 2-hour shootout ensued with occupants of the house.
Now, it seems most likely that Hughes did this by himself and entered/exited the house multiple time (perhaps to reload) before eventually being killed.
I like my rifles like my women - short, light, fast, brown, and suppressed.
Charlotte police investigation of deaths of 4 officers finds suspect acted alone; no friendly fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlotte...205428512.html
"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man who fatally shot four law enforcement officers with an assault rifle a month ago acted alone and was solely responsible for all casualties, police in North Carolina’s largest city said Friday.
“At this point in the investigation, it has been determined there was one shooter and no friendly fire,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Deputy Chief Tonya Arrington told reporters..."
..."Hughes was on the second floor of the home. Arrington said he ran between windows, giving some the impression that there could have been two shooters. There were two females in the home with him, but the investigation determined they did not fire at officers, she said.
“The suspect told the female occupants to get out or get down before he fired his weapon at officers,” Arrington said. “All evidence shows there was only one shooter during this incident.”
She also said no other guns were located in the house, so the females would have had nothing to shoot with..."
More at the link.
It seems that Hughes saw the officers approaching his residence and then used the AR from an elevated position via the second-floor windows to inflict casualties.
This event is the poster child for why our police have been necessarily “militarized.”
I like my rifles like my women - short, light, fast, brown, and suppressed.
Still a shit sandwich even if someone is actively covering my upstairs windows. Between glare, angles, shadows, curtains, and the shooter possibly being a little off of the window instead of right on it, you probably won’t see a shooter from an upstairs window until after they’ve already begun shooting. Someone covering the upstairs windows will at least be able to respond sooner since they would see the glass break and the shooting start as opposed to someone who was covering a downstairs concern.
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Exactly.
There's nothing civil about this war