4 Cops shot in San Antonio

[DWalt]

News just announced that four SA cops responding to a suicide in progress call in a fairly upscale area were shot. Apparently none have life-threatening injuries. Or so they say. Looks like an armed barricaded hostage situation has developed at present. SWAT Team has been deployed. I do not remember anything like this ever happening here.

 

[lihpster]

I hope this idiot finally mans up and does it himself instead of putting it on some poor cop. Officer shouldn't have to carry this nutbag's luggage.

 

[Rudi]

Sadly, there are far too many idiots in our midst. Glad the officers will survive. PTL. Must be getting harder and harder to find people who want to be LEOs.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I have 2 of my family in law enforcement. I worry about their career choices.

 

[Muley Gil]

I have 2 of my family in law enforcement. I worry about their career choices.

I toted a badge and a gun for 40 years-25 in law enforcement stateside, 5 overseas in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the rest as an armed security officer in a Federal office building, with arrest powers.

There is no way I would encourage a young man or woman to go into police work these days.

 

[Fishinfool]

It's good to hear they are going to be OK. I have always considered a suicidal person with a gun to be just as dangerous as an armed felon, and to be treated as such.

I once worked with a state trooper who responded to such a call involving a middle aged woman. He tried approaching her to talk and calm her down. She turned the gun on him before being tackled. He was lucky, and got to keep his issue Stetson troopers hat as a souvenir - The one with the bullet hole in the brim....

Larry

 

[Fishinfool]

I hope this idiot finally mans up and does it himself instead of putting it on some poor cop. Officer shouldn't have to carry this nutbag's luggage.

Sounds like they got there too soon.....

Larry

 

[S-W4EVER]

... There is no way I would encourage a young man or woman to go into police work these days.

When I was a kid there was no way anyone could talk me out of LE. I always did my best to talk people out of pursuing a LE career, usually successfully, knowing that if they really wanted it no one would be able to talk them out of it.

 

[lawandorder]

The last few years before retirement and a bit after I taught a three hour block at a law enforcement training academy to basic students.
As I stood at the podium looking down at the students I was struck by how young they were and what terrible times waited for them.

I keep them in my prayers.

 

[Beemerguy53]

I am the father, brother, son-in-law, and close friend of law enforcement officers (local, state, and federal, as it happens), all honorable and chivalrous men who have embodied the highest ideals of that noble profession.

When I was in my fire department career, I used to tell the Baltimore cops I encountered that I could never do their jobs because I have no tolerance for idiots, and because the cars aren't big enough to hold all the ammo I'd want to carry.

Now, however, the sea change that has taken place in our society in recent decades has done something to the field of law enforcement that isn't funny.

Police officers get no respect these days, from anybody. Nobody, at any level, truly supports and stands with them, even in the starkest and most unambiguous circumstances, when they most need it. "Back the Blue" is an empty, meaningless slogan, and the only people cops can truly count on is each other. It saddens me beyond words to imagine how they must feel...

Prayers for those officers wounded in San Antonio...

 

[Protocall_Design]

Maybe a new day is dawning? I hope so.

 

[smoothshooter]

I am afraid there will be many more of these kinds of shootings when the criminal deportations get into full swing.
The illegals still need to go however.

 

[glowe]

I read this morning that 7 officers were shot before the shooter died? How does that happen???

 

[DWalt]

I read this morning that 7 officers were shot before the shooter died? How does that happen???

Yes, the actual number of cops shot increased to seven. WHAT WE KNOW: 7 SAPD officers injured in Stone Oak shooting, suspect killed

 

[LVSteve]

Released on bond after assaulting three people and despite an active warrant from a neighboring county!!!! While we continue to run our country's law enforcement in such a piecemeal manner, these kinds of **** ups will continue.

 

[Doug M.]

There is folklore that says suspects are not dangerous and that clearly expressed desire of self harm is not an indication of significant risk to cops. There are statutes and training mandates that result from these intentional falsehoods and result in offender well-being being placed on a par with or ahead of that of cops and us regular folks. Let us say that expressing my view of these falsehoods and those who express them would get me quite a vacation.

 

[TX-Dennis]

This was very close to my son's apartment. He knew nothing about it until I called him this morning.

That boy could sleep through a war.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Released on bond after assaulting three people and despite an active warrant from a neighboring county!!!! While we continue to run our country's law enforcement in such a piecemeal manner, these kinds of **** ups will continue.

I will never understand why people with a documented history of violent criminal behavior are allowed to walk free when they could, and should, be behind bars. This isn't rocket science...commit the crime, do the time.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Maybe a new day is dawning? I hope so.

I wish that were true, but it seems to me things are actually getting worse.

 

[armadillo]

Praying for the officers. Hope they all return to duty.

If you are familiar with TV preacher John Hagee at Cornerstone Ministries, this apartment complex is across the street from the back side of his church.