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    Open Season on Cops ??

    ‘What. The. Hell.’
    CNN anchor calls Dallas PD officers’ attacker ‘courageous and brave’


    Posted at 2:20 pm on June 13, 2015


    Overnight at Dallas police headquarters, a gunman opened fire on officers and planted bombs that police later detonated. The shooter is now dead after a lengthy standoff, and fortunately (and amazingly) no officers were injured in the hail of bullets.


    CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield had this unbelievable take
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    One more time:
    “It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters.”
    Just wow.


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    Dallas police HQ shooting: Suspect killed during standoff
    By Jason Hanna and Joe Sutton, CNN
    Updated 3:31 PM ET, Sat June 13, 2015


    http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/dal...ing/index.html


    Van where Dallas suspect found dead catches on fire
    Associated Press NORMAN MERCHANT 12 mins ago

    DALLAS (AP) — The van where a suspect in the Dallas police headquarters shooting was found dead has caught fire and ammunition rounds are going off inside the vehicle.

    Dallas police say in a Twitter post that the fire erupted when they used robots to clear the van of weapons such as pipe bombs.

    Earlier, the suspect was confirmed dead in the van after a police sniper shot him. Police have not identified him for sure, although the suspect told police before he died that his name was James Boulware.

    No one else was killed or injured in the attack, which left the police headquarters riddled with bullets.

    This is breaking news. Stay tuned for updates.

    A man suspected of spraying Dallas Police Headquarters with gunfire early on Saturday has been found dead in a van after a police sniper shot him and pipe bombs found in the vehicle were exploded, a police spokesman said.

    Authorities said it was remarkable that no one else was killed or injured in the attack, which left the headquarters and police vehicles nearby riddled with bullet holes.

    Dallas Police Spokesman Maj. Max Geron posted on the department's Twitter account that the suspect was found dead in the vehicle but said the man's identity could not be confirmed pending medical examination.

    The police sniper shot the suspect following a standoff of several hours in a restaurant parking lot in the suburb of Hutchins, where he had fled.

    Investigators found a package containing pipe bombs in the parking lot of the headquarters building and the suspect told police negotiators that he had explosives in the van, police said. Police used a camera-equipped robot to inspect the vehicle.

    When authorities exploded the pipe bombs, they contained lots of shrapnel including screws and nails, Geron said.

    Investigators believe the man acted alone, even though early witness reports suggested there could have been as many as four attackers.

    Cellphone video shot from a balcony or roof near the headquarters building showed the suspect's dark-colored van ram a squad car as gunshots rang out.

    Bullets pierced the glass of the headquarters entrance and caused damage inside, including at the front desk, where the employee on duty had gone to get a soft drink immediately before the bullets started flying, police said.

    Police Chief David Brown said the suspect had identified himself as James Boulware and told police that he blamed them for losing custody of his son and "accusing him of being a terrorist."

    Investigators were still not sure of his name, adding that he could have been lying earlier.

    Anita Grendahl was asleep in her 7th floor apartment in a high-rise across from police headquarters when she heard gunshots loud enough to wake her up over a white noise machine in her room.

    "We just woke up to a few pops and thought somebody was on my balcony, and then looked outside and saw the van crash into the car," she said.

    Ladarrick Alexander and his fiancée, Laquita Davis, were driving back toward the police station to their nearby apartment when they heard 15 to 20 gunshots in quick succession.

    Seconds later, police could be seen swarming an unmarked van that appeared to have crashed into a police car, they said.

    They turned around and were parked outside the police perimeter about two blocks away, where they heard the sound of one detonation at about 4:30 am and smoke coming up in the air.

    Police headquarters is in a former warehouse district where a boutique hotel and several new apartment buildings have been opened. "We don't see too much going around here at all," Alexander said

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    WAR ON COPS (Thanks Obama Admin and the mainstream media)
    MOST UNBELIEVABLE VIDEO OF THE YEAR:
    "He didn't do no wrong. He Shot a Cop. That's all"


    https://www.facebook.com/WNDNews/vid...69362/?fref=nf


    Watch this and listen to the statement made by the black woman being interviewed. This kind of thinking is not uncommon in the Black community today. I know some of you will say this is a racist statement, it is not.

    The fact is that thanks to Obama, former AG Holder, Al Sharpton, the Liberal News Media and various hate groups, like #BlackLivesMatter, hatred of Law Enforcement Officers has spread like a cancer in America.

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    Investigation: Police shootings
    466 people shot dead by police this year


    At least 50 people have been shot and killed by police across the United States within the past 30 days, according to Washington Post data. This data will be regularly updated with new shootings and details. Send tips and information to The Post.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...ice-shootings/



    What I like about this is it allows for the truth. Out of the hundreds of thousands of persons that police come into contact with; the numbers are low 1.5 shootings per million people nationwide. And despite the media hype the majority are actually white, not black. We have the right to protect ourselves; just like every other member of society. I am glad the Washington Post has put this out. ‪#‎bluelivesmatter
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    July 15, 2015 - 12:28pm
    Video shows man putting gun to Metro cop's head, firing



    James Todora pointed his pistol point-blank at a Las Vegas police officer‘s head last Friday and pulled the trigger.

    Fortunately for the officer, the loaded gun did not have a round in the chamber, and he was unharmed.

    But Todora, 54, was shot and killed Friday by police during what Undersheriff Kevin McMahill called a "tragic" confrontation for everyone involved. The whole thing lasted just less than three minutes.

    Metro on Wednesday provided an update on findings from the shooting and released footage from a body camera the department said Officer Carlos Luna was wearing when Todora tried to shoot him.

    It started about 9:40 a.m. in the 5600 block of Sahara Avenue, near Lindell Road, when Luna pulled Todora over because a brake light on his Jeep Cherokee was out.

    Immediately after being pulled over, the video shows, Todora jumped out of his SUV and began screaming at Luna, McMahill said Wednesday during a press conference. Luna told him to get back in the car, and Todora obeyed.

    Todora started telling the officer, who was now at the driver-side door, that his wife had tried to run him over with her truck and that Metro had been called out to talk to him. He was briefly handcuffed before officers let him go.

    McMahill said Todora and his wife were separated and that she had called police several times in the days leading up to the shooting. She also had a pending temporary protective order against him, but it hadn‘t been served.

    Todora, who was angry and agitated during the traffic stop, told Luna he had a rifle in the back seat.

    By this time, two other officers, Brian Kroening, 32, and Jonathan Lipinski, were conducting a separate traffic stop about 50 yards west from Todora and Luna. They could see Todora‘s behavior, and walked over to assist their fellow officer.

    Another pair of officers, including 28-year-old Evan Hogue, arrived in a patrol car shortly after behind Todora‘s Jeep, police said. Hogue was still undergoing field training after having joined the department in September.

    Luna changed his instructions to Todora after seeing how upset he was, and told him to get out of the car, McMahill said. The officer wanted to separate Todora from the rifle he said was in the back seat.

    But Todora just became more irate, then threatened to shoot himself. He reached toward the passenger seat and pulled out a 9mm pistol hidden under a jacket. Luna tried to pull Todora away and out of the vehicle, and the two struggled briefly.

    Todora then aimed the pistol at Luna‘s head and pulled the trigger, McMahill said.

    The gun was loaded, McMahill said, but did not have a round in the chamber, so it did not fire but readied a round.

    Luna heard the click and immediately pulled back and fell to the road, McMahill said. As he did, Todora pulled the trigger a second time.

    This time, the gun fired, and a bullet went through a Jeep door frame and shattered the rear driver-side window.

    Officer Kroening, who had approached the passenger-side door, saw the commotion and heard the gunshot, and fired three rounds at Todora, killing him.

    Then the officers heard another voice saying he‘d been shot.

    It was Hogue, who was behind the patrol vehicle and had been hit by the bullet Todora fired through the window.

    Luna grabbed Hogue, put him in his vehicle and took him to University Medical Center. The wound was not life-threatening, and Hogue was treated and released a few hours later.

    The .9mm pistol recovered inside the SUV was registered to Todora, McMahill said.

    McMahill said he felt that the officers followed procedure but that they will still analyze the situation to see what can be learned.

    "What can we learn that we could have potentially done differently to not have this officer-involved shooting?" McMahill said. "There may be nothing. However, there are opportunities for us to learn from each and every one of these incidents."

    This was the fourth officer-involved-shooting in Metro‘s jurisdiction of 2015. There were 11 at the same point in 2014.

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    Officer killed, 1 stabbed to death during domestic dispute
    August 27, 2015

    SUNSET, La. (AP) — Called in to calm a domestic dispute, a small-town police officer was killed with his own gun, fired by a cousin, authorities said.

    Henry Nelson, 51, was killed Wednesday, a day before he planned to leave for a month's vacation, which he planned to spend with his teenage daughter, Sunset Police Chief Luis Padilla said.

    Also killed was Shameka Johnson, 40, who — along with her sister, Shurlay Johnson, 34 — had tried to protect Courtney Jolivette Riley from her husband, Harrison Lee Riley Jr., 35, according to St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.

    He said Shurlay Johnson was in critical condition and Courtney Riley was in stable condition. Harrison Riley, who faces murder charges, was under arrest at a hospital.

    Nelson was an outgoing, friendly and sunny person who had been planning to spend the next month with his teenage daughter, Padilla said.

    "Nothing made him mad," Padilla said. "He loved life. Came into work with a smile and left work with a smile."

    Padilla told The Associated Press late Wednesday that Riley and Nelson were cousins. He said Nelson was killed on his last workday before a scheduled month's vacation to have time with his teenage daughter, who lives out of town — Padilla doesn't know where.

    He said Nelson had worked for the 14-person law enforcement agency, which included six police officers including the chief, since 2002.

    Guidroz said Harrison Riley will be booked with first-degree murder in Johnson's death, first-degree murder of a police officer — a specific crime which also carries a possible death penalty — and with the attempted first-degree murders of the other two women.

    The Johnsons are sisters of Grand Coteau Mayor Shaterral Johnson, whose town is a mile from Sunset.

    All three women were stabbed, Guidroz said.

    Harrison Riley drove from the house in in Sunset, a town of about 2,900, and into a convenience store about three blocks away, barricading himself in an office and telling police that he wouldn't come out and was ready to fight, Guidroz said.

    He said SWAT team members lobbed tear gas into the building, then broke in using hammers and fire axes to arrest Riley.

    Riley was kept in a hospital for observation because he said one of his ribs hurt, the sheriff said.

    Guidroz said the violence began with an argument between the Rileys at a house belonging to the Johnsons' mother.

    "He began stabbing the Johnson sisters when they intervened to protect his wife," Guidroz said. "Officer Nelson arrived, and a fight ensued."

    Guidroz said he was told Riley is originally from New Orleans and has an extensive criminal history there. He had recently moved to Arnaudville, the sheriff said.

    Nini Truong, 15, a sophomore in high school, said she was in the office of her parent's store when a car crashed into it. She ran out amid the chaos to see what happened.

    "I was doing my homework," she said. "I was in the office and all of a sudden I just see the front just like crash and I see a car and everybody's freaking out. People are trying to get out and I didn't know what to do."

    Then a man got out of the car. "He was full of blood," she said, but she didn't see any weapons.

    The man shoved people around, asking where Truong's father was. Her parents weren't there, she said.

    The man went into the office and closed the door.

    "I was just wondering what he wanted to do with my dad," she said.

    Clerk Tammy Adams said she recognized the man as a regular customer, but did not know his name. "I'm just grateful to God that I was able to get out of there," she said, crying.

    Sometime later, the Sunset Mini Mart burst into flames. Firefighters quickly put out the blaze. The state fire marshal was working to determine the cause of the fire, Guidroz said.

    Nelson was the second Louisiana police officer killed in four days and the fifth in four months. Louisiana State Police Trooper Steven Vincent was shot Sunday and died Monday. Shreveport Officer Thomas LaValley was shot to death Aug. 5, New Orleans Police Officer Daryle Holloway on June 20, and New Orleans public housing police Officer James Bennett Jr. on May 25.

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    White House fence-jumper killed after Pa. court attack

    A Pennsylvania man who jumped a White House fence in March was shot dead Tuesday inside a Philadelphia-area courthouse after he slashed a sheriff's deputy with a knife.

    Curtis Smith, 34, of Coatesville was killed by another deputy after the attack about 11 a.m. in the lobby of the Chester County Justice Center in West Chester, Pa., District Attorney Thomas Hogan said at a news conference.

    Deputy Kevin Brough, who has been on the force for 18 months, was cut on his left hand and arm. He was slated for surgery Tuesday night at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, said Sheriff Carolyn Bunny Welsh, the Philadelphia Inquirerreported.

    Smith was pronounced dead at Paoli Hospital. Officials did not immediately say how many times he had been shot. It was not clear why he was at the courthouse or what prompted the attack.

    A lawyer representing Smith in a pending domestic-violence case told WCAU-TV his client "had no terrorist claim or anything like that."

    The courthouse was locked down for about two hours and then closed the rest of the day. Trials and court business for those inside continued, however, the Delaware County Daily Times reported.

    “Unfortunately, because of incidents like this across the nation, we have learned how to deal with an attack at a courthouse,” Hogan said. “No one else was injured. The sheriffs did their job, and the lockdown went perfectly."

    Smith was arrested March 1 after he scaled a stone wall at the southeast corner of the White House complex. The arrest record said he wanted "to pass a message to the president," the Washington Post reported. He offered no resistance and "turned around presenting his hands behind his back for arrest."

    Under a deferred-prosecution agreement in April, Smith was ordered to stay away from the White House and to report to authorities by phone weekly, the Inquirer reported. A status hearing was scheduled for October.


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    Louisiana state trooper dies after being shot
    By Dana Ford, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Faith Karimi, CNN
    Updated 10:20 PM ET, Mon August 24, 2015



    )—Authorities in Louisiana are working to connect the possible dots between two killings -- that of Louisiana State Trooper Steven Vincent, and another man, who officials have not yet named.

    That second victim was believed to have been sharing a home with Kevin Daigle, 54, who authorities say has been charged in Vincent's death.

    The 44-year-old veteran trooper was shot Sunday during the course of a traffic encounter with Daigle, whose pickup was stuck in a ditch by the time Vincent arrived, according to Col. Michael Edmonson, the police force's superintendent. Several people had called to report the suspect had been swerving all over the road. Vincent died of his injuries Monday.

    "As an organization, we are heartbroken over this senseless and tragic death," Edmonson said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his surviving wife, Katherine, and his son (9-year-old) Ethan as well as his entire extended family," including two brothers who are also in law enforcement: Terrell Vincent, who's also a trooper, and Keith Vincent, who's chief of police in Iowa, Louisiana.



    Kevin Daigle, 54, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, will be charged with murder, police say.

    Kevin Daigle, 54, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, will be charged with murder, police say.

    Vincent realized the suspect's vehicle matched the description of a truck whose driver had reportedly been driving recklessly. He started talking to Daigle, who appeared to be impaired and was alone in the truck, Edmonson said.

    According to police, Daigle opened the truck's door and came out with the shotgun.



    "You could hear him breathing, telling him, 'You're lucky. You're lucky. You're going to die soon.' That's the words that came out of his mouth," said Edmonson, who said he listened to a recording of the interaction.

    The suspect tried to flee the scene, but other motorists wrestled a shotgun from him and detained him with the trooper's handcuffs, Edmonson said.

    "Thank God for those good Samaritans," he told CNN's Don Lemon. "They are heroes."

    Edmonson said a man got Daigle to the ground and later got on the police radio to ask for help.

    "Total disregard for his own safety. He did what very few people would do," he said.

    Daigle is being held at the Calcasieu Parish Jail.


    'This didn't make any sense'


    Investigators interviewing Daigle learned about an altercation at a home in Moss Bluff, just north of Interstate 10 in southwestern Louisiana, where deputies were already headed to do a welfare check after a man did not show up for work Monday, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso told reporters.

    When they arrived, they forced their way inside and found the second victim. Authorities are not yet identifying him because his family has not been notified.

    "We do believe foul play is involved, and we are investigating it as a homicide," Mancuso said.

    In discussing a possible connection between the two slayings, the sheriff said that investigators are looking into the exact relationship between the second victim and Daigle.

    "We do have information to believe that he (Daigle) was a resident at that location, maybe not permanently, but at least staying with him (the second victim)," the sheriff said.

    He stressed that authorities were just starting to process the scene and do not have a lot of answers. But he hoped they would have more soon.

    Mancuso said he hadn't understood why the situation between Daigle and the trooper escalated like it did.

    "This didn't make any sense. This may make a little more sense to us now, as this unfolds," he said.


    'An honorable husband, father'


    Vincent is the first trooper to be killed in a hostile encounter since Trooper Donald Cleveland was murdered near Lafayette in 1977, police said.

    Vincent had a lifelong dream of becoming a trooper and joined the Louisiana State Police in 2003. Previously, he was with the Lake Charles Police Department for a decade.

    "During his 12 years of service, he received 13 awards and commendations, including the department's Professional Excellence and Meritorious Service Awards as well as numerous Unit Citations for his dedicated and selfless duty throughout the state. He had also served in the United States Army during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm," a state police statement from Sgt. Nick Manale said.

    Vincent will receive the full honors associated with a death in the line of duty, Manale said.

    "Trooper Vincent epitomizes all that is great about our organization. He didn't just believe in our core values, he lived them. The citizens of this state were well served by Vincent, and I know they join us in our collective grief," Edmonson said.

    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered flags at state buildings to be flown at half-staff until Friday.

    "Steven was an honorable husband, father and state trooper who courageously served our state for over a decade," the governor said in a statement. "Brave men and women like Steven put their lives in danger every day to protect our families, and we are extremely grateful to them for keeping us safe."

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/us/lou...hot/index.html

    Troopers and officers from Louisiana State Police and Lake Charles City Police joined Vincent family members and medical staff at a "donate life" flag raising ceremony held at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital this afternoon. The ceremony, organized by the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA), recognized the decision made by the Vincent family to donate Trooper Vincent's organs so that other people who desperately need them may be helped. So far, seven organ transplant matches have been identified. Trooper Vincent will live on through others and continue to serve his fellow man for many years to come.

    For information on the importance of organ donation and how you can be a part of this lifesaving mission, please visit the LOPA website at www.lopa.org.
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    This article was published prior to the death of Henry Nelson in Sunset LA

    With fifth officer death by gunfire this year, Louisiana accounts for 20 percent of nation's total
    Two from N.O. among those killed

    Aug. 26, 2015




    Top row from left : Steven J. Vincent, Josie Wells, Daryle Holloway.
    Bottom row from left James Bennett, Thomas LaValley

    More on-duty officers in Louisiana have been shot and killed this year than in any year in the past decade, according to statistics compiled by The Advocate.




    And Louisiana accounts for some 20 percent of all nationwide officer shooting deaths this year, based on a review of information compiled by the website Officer Down Memorial Page.

    The latest came Monday, when Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, of Louisiana State Police, died after he was shot in the head by a man he was trying to help in Calcasieu Parish the day prior, police said, bringing this year’s tally to five. Earlier this month, Shreveport Police Officer Thomas LaValley, a native of St. Amant, was gunned down while responding to a suspicious person call.

    No on-duty officers were shot dead in the state in 2014.

    “The fact is, we’re going to a lot more police funerals this year,” said Mike Anderson, special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans division, which oversees the entire state.





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    Sister-in-law says suspect in state trooper shooting ‘troubled,’ threatened her family
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    ◾ In town where 'we know everybody,' tragedy crosses family lines: Slain police officer was suspect's cousin

    The increase could owe to a growing frustration with police, mixed with social and economic pressures that Louisianians face in particular, he said.

    “Nationally you’re seeing a significant amount of tension between communities and law enforcement,” he said. “If you combine that with a lot of the challenges out there for the community, (including) access to guns, mental illness, unemployment, poverty … it almost brews a cocktail of frustration that comes at a boiling point where law enforcement unfortunately is at the end of the line for a lot of those individuals.”

    Not all law enforcement experts were ready to offer a conclusion Monday about the uptick in officer deaths.

    “We don’t want any of these. We pray daily that we don’t have anybody, any families, any fallen officers to honor,” said Joey Watson, executive director of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement.

    “I realize there’s an increase, but I can’t explain it,” he said.



    Nationally, cop killings are not necessarily rising, said Chris Cosgriff, a Virginia-based police officer and the founder and executive director of Officer Down Memorial Page, which gathers detailed information on fallen officers.

    “Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why numbers jump. Right now there’s nothing indicative of why Louisiana has been having such a bad year,” he said.

    Preliminary information on Cosgriff’s site shows 24 gun deaths of officers in the U.S. this year, and 47 last year. The FBI, which has not yet released recent statistics on “felonious killings” of officers, cited 27 such deaths in 2013 nationally, and 49 in 2012.

    A spike came in 2011, with 72 cop killings in the U.S., according to FBI numbers.

    “It was an especially challenging time,” Steven Groeninger, of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial fund, said of the 2011 surge. His organization also tracks officer deaths.



    “We saw the beginning of an anti-government, anti-authority sentiment. That carried through the following year, and there still seems to be a good deal of that in play,” he said.

    The last time Louisiana saw five or more shooting deaths of on-duty cops was in 2004, when six officers were killed by gunfire while working. In addition to Vincent’s and LaValley’s deaths this year, three other on-duty officers in Louisiana were killed: U.S. Marshal Josie Wells, Housing Authority of New Orleans Police Officer James Bennett Jr. and New Orleans police Officer Daryle Holloway.

    Cosgriff said that unless a cop killer makes some sort of explicit anti-police statement, it’s impossible to know his or her motivations, which in turn makes it hard to compile data illustrating exactly what’s behind the slayings.

    Still, he acknowledged that media attention on perceived tensions between police and the public — most notably in the wake of Ferguson, Missouri — has made officers more cautious.

    “We are obviously looking over our shoulder a little more just to make sure no one is sneaking up on us,” he said.


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    Josie Wells, Jr., was born Thursday, more than five months after his father was gunned down serving a fugitive warrant in Louisiana

    A moment of joy in this tragic week for law enforcement, the infant son of Deputy U.S. Marshall Josie Wells, Sr. was born this morning more than five months after his father lost his life while attempting to serve an arrest warrant on a double murder suspect in Baton Rouge.

    At the time of his death in March 2015, his wife had just learned of the pregnancy. The child was named Josie Wells Jr. in remembrance of his father.

    Following his tragic death, LSP was honored to escort Deputy U.S. Marshall Wells back to his hometown of Jackson, MS.


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    Law Enforcement in Louisiana and Mississippi have endured tragedy this year but there is one tiny bundle of joy we would like to report to our followers. The son of Deputy U.S. Marshal Josie Wells was born today! Please welcome Josie Lamar Wells Jr. to the world!

    His wife Channing Wells was pregnant with their first child when Deputy Marshal Josie Wells was killed in the line of duty in March in Baton Rouge.

    BRPD would like to congratulate Channing Wells and formally welcome little “Jo Jo” to the world!
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    With 2 killings this week, Louisiana police deaths rising
    August 27, 2015


    BATON ROUGE - Police badges in Louisiana are banded with black ribbons more than usual this year, a grim reminder that officer deaths are on the rise with two killings just this week alone.

    Louisiana has had more job-related police fatalities in 2015 than any other state but Texas, with nine on-duty deaths in each state, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

    Law enforcers are weary of what they call "the end of the watch."

    Police deaths nationally also are showing an uptick this year, though not at the rate in Louisiana, where the law enforcement community is readying for two more funerals.

    "Even though we're grieving, we've got to go out there every night and every day and do this job," said Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso. "We're not allowed to stop what we're doing."

    On Sunday, a Louisiana State Police trooper was shot in Calcasieu Parish by a stranded motorist stuck in a ditch. Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 44, died Monday, leaving behind a wife and 9-year-old son and two other brothers in law enforcement.

    On Wednesday, a domestic dispute in the tiny town of Sunset left a 13-year-veteran officer dead, shot with his own gun. In a sad twist, the 51-year-old Sunset police officer Henry Nelson was killed by his own cousin, the town's police chief said.

    The deaths come amid high-profile shootings in other states that have heightened tensions between the public and police officers. But Louisiana officials say officers already went to work with safety concerns every day before the most recent shootings.

    "There's no such thing as a routine traffic stop. There's no such thing as a routine interaction with the police. We've got to always be prepared for what might could happen," said Col. Mike Edmonson, the Louisiana State Police superintendent.

    Eighty police officers have died on the job so far this year, preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund shows, compared to 72 at the same time last year.

    Steve Groeninger, with the memorial fund, said the 11 percent increase is largely tied to an increase in traffic-related fatalities. He said the rise nationally this year hasn't reached a level that sets off alarm bells.

    But Jonathan Thompson, executive director of the National Sheriffs' Association, sees more reason to worry.

    "It's incredibly disturbing," Thompson said. "When you look across the nation, the number of brutal attacks are up significantly on law enforcement."

    Louisiana has averaged about five job-related officer deaths annually over the last decade. It had three last year.

    This year, according to the data, Louisiana has already reached the high-water mark of 2007, nine on-duty deaths.

    And the year's far from done.

    In addition to Nelson and Vincent, three other officers have been fatally shot this year, in Shreveport and New Orleans. A New Orleans officer was struck by a car while investigating a vehicle fire in July. A Jeanerette police officer died after crashing his patrol car in a high-speed chase in April. Two officers had heart attacks in January, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.

    Law enforcement officials can't point to a single reason for the spike.

    "It can go from a simple car in a ditch to a trooper laying on the ground now, shot to death," Mancuso said earlier this week as he spoke of Vincent's fatal shooting.

    In Sunset, a domestic violence call led to Nelson's death.

    Harrison Lee Riley Jr. is accused of stabbing his wife and two women trying to protect her, before fatally shooting his cousin Nelson, who responded to the call.

    One of the sisters, Shameka Johnson, 40, died Wednesday. Surlay Johnson, 34, remained hospitalized in critical condition Thursday. Riley's wife, Courtney Jolivette Riley, was hospitalized in stable condition with stab wounds, authorities said.

    Harrison Riley was hospitalized Wednesday following his arrest, complaining of pain in his ribs. He was treated and transported to the local jail Thursday, the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office said. Riley was booked on multiple felony charges, including first-degree murder.

    "He may never again see the light of day," said Capt. Clay Higgins, of the St. Landry sheriff's office.

    The 35-year-old accused shooter had a string of arrests in Louisiana and Texas. He served prison time in Texas for assault and aggravated robbery, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

    Nelson died two days before he was to be off Friday for a month-long visit with his teenage daughter, according to Sunset Police Chief Luis Padilla.

    "Always with a smile," Padilla said. "Even when he arrested you, he still had a smile. Never saw him mad or angry or upset, never."

    The shooting death shocked the small, 14-person department. The last time a Sunset officer was killed on-duty was 1932, Padilla said.

    No funeral date has been set for Nelson. Vincent, the trooper shot earlier this week, will be buried Saturday. A new class for state police cadets begins a day later.


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