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Volusia County Sheriff’s Office K-9 killed, suspect being sought

Volusia County, Fl.  The Sheriff’s Office reported on their Facebook page that one of their K-9’s was shot while conducting a search for a burglary suspect in a neighborhood. (more…)

The suspect eventually abandoned the stolen vehicle and a house to house search was started for him. At about 3:25 P.M. shots rang out and two officers were struck as well as a K-9 that had been involved with attempting to find the suspect. The suspect was also shot during what was to be an exchange of gunfire.

The suspect, Marco Romero, 33, who was recently paroled for criminal possession of a controlled substance and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury, was wanted in connection with a shooting that injured two in nearby Meridian on Tuesday.

The two officers that were injured were not named however they were transported to local area hospitals. One being treated in an emergency room, the other undergoing surgery at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Neither officer’s condition was listed.

The K-9 named Jardo was also injured in the shooting. Jardo underwent surgery at WestVet, and police reported that the veterinarian who performed that surgery “is hopeful he will be OK.”

Jardo has been with the Department since August 2013 and was announced as a “Belgain Malinois and weights 65lbs. Jardo is trained to sniff out the odors of marijuana, meth, heroin, and cocaine. Jardo can also apprehend bad guys which helps to keep our citizens and police officers safe.”

Garden City police will be the lead agency investigating the shooting as part of a Critical Incident Task Force.

We wish both Officers and K-9 Jardo a safe and speedy recovery.

Marco Romero, 33

Ken E Nwadike Jr The CEO of Superhero Events and Director of the Hollywood Half Marathon, made his way to Charlotte, N.C. like so many others. But Nwadike was not there to protest the death of Keith Scott who people have rioted, looted, murdered others in the name of over the past three days as if this was some new normal cycle of behavior when a black person is killed by Police.

He wrote about his experience on his Facebook page stating:

Last night was very risky and difficult being on the frontline fighting for peace. I lost my patience with a few people, but I know I got through to many and kept some from getting arrested. Unfortunately, a young man was shot in the head during the protests. Condolences to his family. Hate and violence won’t fix the damage that has been done, only love can do that. #FreeHugs

His purpose was simply to hug people. All people regardless of skin color, what they were wearing or who they represented. The moments were captured on video and posted to his Youtube and Facebook accounts showing him in Charlestown.

A ‘big racist white cop’ can be seen at the very beginning of the video pointing at him asking him to come over and saying, “Come here free hugs brother!, Thanks for coming out here and being peaceful with me.” They have a few private words then a black officer comes up and shakes hands with Nwadike and they embrace.

At that point ‘protesters’ call him a pussy, they begin to argue with him and he has to defend his actions that the Police are not the enemy in general. That individuals have to be treated as individuals.  Some are screaming at the officer “Take off that badge nigger”.

He goes on to rationally explain that you can’t judge groups of people by one persons actions. That all Police officers are not robots. They are not all the same. Just like all black people are not the same. One or two people understand, some, mainly the females do not want to hear his arguments; they just want to continue to argue with him.

Nwadike makes progress with some, but not enough sadly. He is a line between the Thin Blue Line and the rioters keeping the rioters safe from their own actions.

Nwadike is fighting the mindset of far too many people like a man described as the brother of Keith Lamont Scott who called all white people “f–cking devils” in an emotional video interview captured after Keith Scott was killed.

In his brief interview as he walked past reporters, he angrily says: “I just know that all white people are f-cking devils.” Then he adds, “All white cops are f-cking devils, and white people.”

Keith Scott didn’t care that his brother, a black man was shot by a Black officer at all; he assumed it was a white officer before having any facts.

His brother was told several times to exit the vehicle and drop his weapon. A black officer shot him and a weapon was discovered at the scene. A woman who said she videotaped the entire event posted it on Facebook. In her posting she inadvertently posted the weapon’s photo on the ground between an officers feet!

While Keith Scott’s killing was tragic, the man did have a history of violence and possession of weapons despite his wifes screaming at Police Officers that he did not have one. His list of arrests and convictions according to the Charlotte Observer are as follows:

Scott was convicted in April 2004 of a misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon charge in Mecklenburg County. Other charges stemming from that date were dismissed: felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and misdemeanors assault on a child under 12, assault on a female and communicating threats.

In April 2015 in Gaston County Court, Scott was found guilty of driving while intoxicated.

In 1992, Scott was charged in Charleston County, S.C., with several different crimes on different dates, including carrying a concealed weapon (not a gun), simple assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He pleaded guilty to all charges.

Scott also was charged with aggravated assault in 1992 and assault with intent to kill in 1995. Both charges were reduced, but the disposition of the cases is unclear.

According to Bexar County, Texas, records, Scott was sentenced in March 2005 to 15 months in a state jail for evading arrest. In July of that year, records show, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on a conviction of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman said Scott completed his sentence and was released from prison in 2011.

Upon his killing media immediately linked Scotts killing with that of the Tulsa, Oklahoma shooting of Terence Crutcher. A black male who was shot by a white female Police Officer named Betty Shelby who stated Crutcher had been acting strangely and did not follow her commands. When Crutcher walked back to his car with his hands up, disobeying her commands and started putting his hands down she shot him.

Shelby was arrested on the charge of 1st Degree manslaughter for her actions. However even though the two cases had nothing what so ever to do with each other the media was quick to make a link to them due to skin color of the persons who were shot.

Media has over reported instances of white Police officers killing black suspects that it is expected now that any Police shootings are unjustified when it comes to a black person. It has become the new norm that riots, looting and protests form by Black Lives Matter over any shooting by Police.

It is also unjustly believed that more blacks are killed by Police than white people are and that blacks are targeted by police officers. That all Police Officers are racists.

The reality of the situation is completely the opposite, but thanks to the media nobody will ever believe that the truth of the matter is this:

African-American men may make up 6.6% of the U.S. population, but they account for 33% of those who have murdered police officers in the last three years. In other words, African-American men are 5 times more likely to kill a police officer, but only 3.7 times more likely to be killed by the police.

Since the Washington Post data suggests only 25% of those killed by police use of force were African-American men, but 33% of law enforcement officers murdered in the line of duty were killed by African-American men, it appears that African-American men are less likely to be killed than their violence towards the police would suggest.

The evidence suggests that the police do not disproportionately target African-American men for use of lethal force. The evidence suggests that the police are only responding to the rate of deadly force assaults they are experiencing.*

Our Police Forces are doing an extraordinary job in light of current events despite the negative media publicity that they receive on a daily basis. Officers are human too and they make mistakes.

Instead of demanding more of our officers and continued training which in fact will result in negative consequences that nobody will have foreshadowed or backing them into corners that they are being forced into now where they will no longer be able to help the public. Take a moment to think and rationalize what is truly happening.

Yes there are mistakes that happen in every profession. Yes lives do get lost. But in the Police Profession deaths are far less than even in the medical profession where 251,000 lives every year are lost due to errors. That is a FAR Cry from the 990 mostly justifiable shootings by the Police. But you don’t hear about the Doctors and nurses every day in the media do you?

It is not about the death, it is about the accountability. Police Officers ARE being held accountable as we have seen time and time again.

What we need to see is accountability of the offenders and families who want to scream he doesn’t have a gun, when in fact he does. When family members incite riots and scream for unrest as Sherelle Smith, sister of Sylville Smith shrieked to reporters and rioters after he was shot by Police in Milwaukee. Standing outside a burned down gas station that rioters had destroyed the night before and screamed “‘Burning down s*** ain’t gonna help nothing. You’re burning down s*** we need in our community. ‘Take that s*** to the suburbs. Burn that s*** down. ‘We need our s***. We need our weave [an apparent reference to a salon that was damaged in the rioting]. I don’t wear it, but we need it,’ “

That was of course during the riots of Milwaukee, when a black man was shot for pointing a loaded weapon with 23 rounds of ammunition at a black Police officer. Who defended himself by shooting him and once again predictably, riots broke out.

Sylville Smith who was shot by Milwaukee Officer and his sister Sylville who called for violence in the aftermath

One does not ‘protest’ or ‘honor’ a dead person by ransacking businesses, neighborhoods, destroying property, burning vehicles, robbing people, shooting more people, blocking traffic, throwing reporters into fire trying to burn them alive,  and causing people to be late for work, or murdering innocent people.

Ransacked Business in Charlotte

#WCCB witnessed protesters try to throw still photographer into fire in Uptown (Credit: WCCB, Charlotte’s CW (@WCCBCharlotte))

  If you want to protest, then do it right. But remember every person is just that a person. No matter what color they are their life matters. It doesn’t matter what they do for a job, where they live or anything else. We belong to one race, the human race. To say that anything else is more important than that IS RACIST.

No profession has protected black people more than Police Officers and that is just a fact. To hate all Police Officers because something has happened that is heartbreaking to you is not only illogical but is also harming an entire nation by driving us apart.

It is time to end this madness and take a page from Ken E Nwadike Jr who is handing out Hugs, they are free. They are easy to do and they only take a moment or two. But they are the best medicine to heal the wounds that are now ripping the very fabric of our country apart.

  *Dolan Consulting Group

His last known address was in Elizabeth, N.J., the city where authorities found pipe bombs in a garbage can Monday when Officers swarmed an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant “First American Fried Chicken” in Elizabeth run by Rahami’s father.

New Jersey State Police also released additional photos of Rahami. He is about 5’ 6” tall and weighs approximately 200 pounds. He has brown hair, brown eyes and brown facial hair.

Police said he is believed to be operating a 2003 Blue Honda Civic bearing NJ registration D63EYB.

Investigators believe Rahami may be part of a terror cell and consider him extremely dangerous, CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues reported.

Cuomo said as investigators gathered information they learned there were “certain commonalities among the bombs,” leading authorities to believe “that there was a common group behind the bombs.”

In the immediate aftermath of that bombing, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to international terrorism. Both said Monday that appears to be changing.

“There may very well turn out to be a link to foreign organizations,” Cuomo said.

On Sunday night, FBI agents in Brooklyn stopped “a vehicle of interest” in the investigation of the Chelsea explosion, according to FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser.

Additional Device information – A federal law enforcement official said BBs and ball bearings were among the pieces of metal that appeared to be packed into two pressure cooker bombs in New York. One of those devices exploded on 23rd Street, but the fact that it was partly under a metal trash container may have diminished the force of the blast.

Original story: 5 people taken into custody in connection with Chelsea explosion

NYPD has asked that anyone with information on Ahmad Khan Rahami contact #800577TIPS with any information.

Surveillance image released by NJ State Police of a man believed to be Ahmad Khan Rahami.

Series of images of Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who is wanted for questioning by the FBI.

The “Routine Traffic Stop” Why aren’t you out catching a murderer or something …

On June 2, 2013 in East Harlem a shooting had occurred on the 400 block of East 105th Street and Luciano Cajigas, 28, had been murdered. The suspect in the case had been identified as Edwin Burgos, 57, but had evaded capture all this time despite the fact that his mugshot had been distributed to the public as a person of interest. (more…)

Two New Tools For Cops

Have you ever seen a video of a cop trying to handcuff a big guy who is face down and really doesn’t want to be cuffed? The crook wants his palms down so he can push up and fight, the cop wants his arm down, palm up, so he can’t. The cop gets his arm down, the guy gets it back up. The cop gets it down and tries to get a cuff on him. The guy doesn’t allow it, and so on and on. Eventually he gets a…

The second officer attempted to make an arrest but the suspect returned to the vehicle and fled the scene with the other two occupants of the vehicle. The backup officer called in that an officer was down and pursued the suspect vehicle with the three suspects inside.

Officer Jose Chavez, a second-year officer, was shot in the neck, according to Mayor Andy Nunez. Emergency medical aid was given to the injured officer on the scene for about 30 minutes prior to transporting him to the hospital.

As the backup officer attempted to pull over the suspect vehicle the suspects were able to get away as they were driving at speeds in excess of 100 MPH according to Kelly Jameson with the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Department.

Shortly after 4 p.m., the suspects exited at a rest stop near Radium Springs, where one of the three exited the vehicle and allegedly carjacked a red Chevrolet Cruze that was parked at the rest stop. The owner of the vehicle was also shot and had to be airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso.

Sheriff’s deputies spotted the Cruze, then deployed a tire-deflating device which successfully flattened the vehicle’s tires.

At about 5 p.m., the vehicle eventually turned into a residence in the 23000 block of N.M. 185. The suspect allegedly crashed the vehicle into a pile of wood and briefly barricaded himself in the vehicle before surrendering to the Sheriff’s Deputies. The suspect had suffered a gunshot wound to the right thigh.

Meanwhile, a passerby in the Rincon area alerted Sheriff’s Deputies to two subjects “acting suspicious” near the 2400 block of Rincon. Deputies responded and arrested two men believed to be involved in the shooting and carjacking at about 7:00 P.M.. The suspects were transported to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department for questioning.

The male suspect who suffered the injury to his leg is being treated at a hospital. He is under police supervision and will be arrested upon his release.

Officer Jose Chavez is said to be “good” condition at this time.

No names of any suspects have been released at this time.

Sebastian County, Arkansas Update 1 Officer Killed, suspect in custody

At approximately 7:00 a.m. local time, a 911 call was made by the father of 35-year-old Billy Monroe Jones. Jones had reportedly pulled a gun on his father. Police were dispatched to Jones’ home in Sebastian County, Arkansas, and found him holding a rifle and wearing body armor. (more…)