Four police officers shot in 24 hours as divisive racial rhetoric continues to exact a lethal toll
Benjamin Marconi, a detective in San Antonio, Texas, was shot to death on Sunday while writing a traffic ticket in his squad car. It was parked in front of police headquarters. A driver in another vehicle pulled up behind to the unsuspecting officer and opened fire.
“Unfortunately, like Dallas, like Baton Rouge, it’s happened here.”
A police sergeant in St. Louis, Missouri was hospitalized after being shot twice in the face Sunday night during an ambush. The suspect was killed early Monday during a shootout with police.
“This officer was driving down the road and was ambushed by an individual who pointed a gun at him from inside of his car and shot out the police officer’s window,” said St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson.
Also in Missouri, a Gladstone Police Department officer was shot near Kansas City while trying to take a suspect into custody for a traffic violation, and in Sanibel, Florida, an officer was shot during a routine traffic stop.
The San Antonio detective murdered on Sunday is at least the 13th law enforcement officer to be murdered in an ambush-style attack since 2014.
Earlier this month, two police officers in Des Moines, Iowa, were killed in separate ambush-style attacks while parked in their patrol cars. In July, six officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were shot by radical black separatist Gavin Eugene Long — three of the officers died.
Also in July, radical black nationalist and Black Lives Matter supporter Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed police officers in Dallas, Texas, during a Black Lives Matter protest. Nine officers were injured and five were murdered.
In 2014, two police officers in Brooklyn, New York, were shot in an ambush by 28-year old Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, who claimed his attack was revenge for the shooting of Michael Brown.
Perhaps even more disturbing than this epidemic of anti-police violence is President Obama’s apparent indifference to it. Obama has made no public appearance nor issued any statement in response to the horrific attacks on our nation’s finest — despite the fact that it has been nearly 24 hours since Detective Marconi was assassinated.
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