Sheriff blames 'anti-police rhetoric' for killing of white police officer @Daily

Black Lives Matter group criticises sheriff for "politicising" alleged murder of one of his officers

By Nick Allen, Washington

12:26AM BST 31 Aug 2015

A Sheriff in Texas has blamed "dangerous rhetoric" against police by anti-racism activists for the execution-style killing of one of his officers.

Darren Goforth, 47, a white sheriff's deputy, was shot in the back of the head as he filled up his patrol car at a petrol station in a middle class suburb of Houston on Friday night.

Shannon Miles, 30, who is black, has been charged with murder.

According to his Facebook page Miles at one point attended the same university in Texas as Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black women who was found hanged in a jail cell last month.

Protests followed her death as a video showed she had been arrested under controversial circumstances during a routine traffic stop.

Police said Miles had no known connection to Deputy Goforth, and allegedly targeted him simply because he was wearing a uniform.

Shannon J. Miles. Prosecutors in Texas are charging the 30-year-old man with capital murder in the killing of Darren Goforth, a sheriff's deputy  Photo: AP

Ron Hickman, Harris County Sheriff, said they would investigate whether Harris was motivated by anger over recent police killings of black men elsewhere in the United States.

Several days before the killing a caller to an internet radio show based in Texas had called for the "lynching" of white people, and the killing of police officers, to "turn the tide".

Sheriff Hickman said anti-police rhetoric had "gotten out of control".

He said: "I think that's something that we have to keep an eye on. The general climate of that kind of rhetoric can be influential on people to do things like this.

"We've heard black lives matter. All lives matter. Well, cops' lives matter, too. So why don't we just drop the qualifier and say lives matter.

"As far as we know Deputy Goforth had no previous contact with the suspect, and it appears at the outset to be clearly unprovoked."

Devon Anderson, Harris County district attorney added: "There are a few bad apples in every profession. That does not mean there should be open warfare declared on law enforcement."

Deray McKesson, a leader of Black Lives Matter, the peaceful protest movement spawned by recent police killings of black people elsewhere in the United States, criticised the sheriff for heightening tensions with his comments.

She said: "It is unfortunate that Sheriff Hickman has chosen to politicise this tragedy and to attribute the officer's death to a movement that seeks to end violence."

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PODCAST THAT CALLED FOR KILLING #COPS MISSING AFTER EXECUTION @Breirbart

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by BOB PRIC30 Aug 2015

The Texas podcast that called for the lynching of white people and the killing of cops appears to have been taken down from their page. While links to the program, “Sunshines F**king Opinion Online Radio” can still be found, the program’s page is no longer there. The podcast called for people to kill cops just days prior to the execution of a Harris County sheriff’s deputy.

The Texas-based radio show’s guests called for lynching white people and taking pictures of them hanging in trees, according to a Breitbart Texas report on Friday. Another caller spoke of the need for blacks to kill cops to “turn the tide.”

Friday night, when the Harris County sheriff’s deputy was murdered, Breitbart Texasreported that Sheriff Ron Hickman said Deputy Goforth’s murder “strikes us all at the heart of public service. We will hunt this person down and do our best to bring that person to justice,” during a middle of the night press conference. Later that same day, his department had successfully arrested the suspect, Shannon Miles.

On the Texas-based radio show host’s Twitter page, @LOLatWhiteFear, there  is not any indication from her that the radio show account has been taken down. However, all links on her Twitter and Instagram account to the program produce a “404 Error” that say “We couldn’t find that page. Seriously, we looked everywhere.”

Sunshine, the host of the aforementioned radio show did express a comment on the murder of Deputy Darren Goforth saying, “So tragic. Just like the tragic deaths of #TamirRice #MikeBrown @alyanajones #TrayvonMartin #ezellford & #SandraBland.”

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#BREAKING 56 shot, 12 killed in #Chicago as #NEGRO #GANGS Run Wild !!! @WGN

56 shot, 12 killed in violent Memorial Day weekend in Chicago

POSTED 9:08 AM, MAY 26, 2015, BY WGN WEB DESK

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CHICAGO — At least 56 people were shot over Memorial Day weekend between Friday afternoon and early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

Twelve people, including three shot Monday afternoon, died from their wounds. Twelve others shot between late Monday morning and early Tuesday morning survived their gunshot wounds, bringing the total of non-fatal gunshot victims for the weekend to 44.

Two of the 12 homicide victims were killed Friday night into Saturday morning; our were killed Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning; and three of the victims were killed Sunday night.

The latest killing happened  in the 4900 block of West Erie Street in the Austin neighborhood. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back and leg about 7:50 p.m. and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, Chicago Police spokesman Officer Thomas Sweeney said. He was later pronounced dead.

Shortly before 5:30 p.m. Monday, a 19-year-old man was fatally shot on the first block of East 36th Place in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood, said Sweeney, who did not immediately have information on the circumstances of the shooting. The man suffered a wound to the back and was driven to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center. He was transferred in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, where he later died, Sweeney said.

Another man was fatally shot just after 2:30 p.m. in the 4100 block of North Hamlin Avenue in the city’s Irving Park neighborhood, said Sweeney. According to preliminary information, a 29-year-old man was a passenger in a car when another car pulled alongside, and someone fired shots. The victim suffered gunshot wounds to the torso and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, where he later died, Sweeney said.

In other shootings:

• A 47-year-old woman was shot by her boyfriend while the two were arguing Tuesday morning in the Austin neighborhood, according to police. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. in the 4800 block of West Madison Street. No one is in custody. The woman was treated for a graze wound at the scene.
• A 34-year-old man was shot in the 1400 block of East 66th Place about 12:30 a.m. and taken to the University of Chicago Hospital. He was shot in the leg and buttocks by someone who shot him from a passing light-colored SUV while he walked on the street.
• A 20-year-old man was shot in the foot in the North Austin neighborhood about 12:30 a.m. He was on a porch when someone opened fire from a passing light-colored sedan, police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital where his condition had been stabilized.
• A man was left in critical condition after someone shot him in the Englewood neighborhood about 10:45 p.m. The man was in the 6500 block of South Normal Avenue when someone shot him in the chest. The shooter and the 25-year-old man he shot were in some sort of altercation earlier in the evening, police said. The man shot was taken to Stroger Hospital.

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Omaha police officer killed in shootout just hours before going on maternity leave @FOX

Published May 21, 2015

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A 29-year-old police officer who had put off maternity leave after giving birth prematurely to a daughter in February was being mourned Thursday, a day after she was gunned down in a shootout with a fugitive.

Kerrie Orozco, the first female officer from Omaha's police department to die in the line of duty, had only recently given birth to a daughter, and also was stepmother to two children ages 6 and 7, according to authorities. She was pronounced dead at Creighton University Medical Center shortly after the 1 p.m. shooting, Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said at a hospital news conference. Schmaderer said the suspect, 26-year-old Marcus Wheeler, also died at the hospital.

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"She was a friend, a popular officer."

- Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer

"Officer Kerrie Orozco gave her life for all of us in her service to the Omaha Police Department," said Omaha Mayor Jean Stohert. "She will be remembered and missed as a loving wife, mother, daughter and dedicated officer."

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2 Mississippi #COPS MURDERED during traffic stop ! @FOX

Curtis, left, and Marvin, right, Banks were arrested in connection with the shooting that left 2 Mississippi police officers dead. (Oxford Police Department)

The shooting death of two Mississippi police officers Saturday night during a traffic stop in Hattiesburg prompted a statewide manhunt that led to the arrests of three suspects, according to officials.

Officer Benjamin Deen had stopped a 2000 Gold Cadillac Escalade in an industrial part of the city at around 8:30 p.m. local time Saturday, said Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. Officer Liquori Tate arrived afterward to assist him, shots were fired, and both officers were wounded.

Strain said both officers died of their injuries at a hospital. The officers’ deaths are reportedly the first for the Hattiesburg police force in 30 years.

Strain said law enforcement agencies across the state launched a manhunt for the perpetrators, leading to the arrests of three suspects:  26-year-old Curtis Banks, his 29-year-old brother Marvin Banks, and 22-year-old Joanie Calloway.

Marvin Banks and Calloway have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Banks' brother Curtis has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.

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38 #Police Officers Killed in Line of Duty Since Jan. 1 ! @CNS

By Ali Meyer | May 4, 2015 | 3:47 PM EDT

(CNSNews.com) – Thirty-eight police officers have been killed in the line of duty since the beginning of 2015, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP).

The last death reported was on April 20, 2015, which means that since the beginning of the year, a police officer has died in the line of duty every three-and-a-half days. for the 38 reported deaths, seven were due to some form of assault and were non-accidental. They include six police officers who were killed by gunfire and one who died as a result of assault.

Police Officer Robert Wilson III from Pennsylvania was shot and killed on March 5 while conducting a security check of a video game store. Two men entered the store and announced a robbery and when Wilson announced his presence, he was struck three times during a shootout where more than 50 shots were fired.

Detective Terence Avery Green from Georgia was shot and killed on March 4 when he and other officers were responding to a report of shots being fired inside of a house. 

Deputy U.S. Marshal Josie Wells was killed on March 10 by gunfire when he and others attempted to serve an arrest warrant on a double-murder suspect. As the team attempted to take the man into custody, shots were exchanged and Wells was shot and killed.

Patrolman George S. Nissen from Illinois died after suffering from injuries 10 years earlier when he was assaulted. Nissen was responding to a disturbance at a bar and attempted to approach the fight when he was attacked and thrown to the ground, and his head was struck on the pavement.

Nissen suffered a concussion and had to go through several surgeries, which resulted in him being a quadriplegic and unable to speak. He passed away on March 12 as a result of his injuries.

Police Officer Alex Yazzie from Arizona was killed while pursuing a subject who had shot at another officer who had responded to a domestic violence call. The subject, armed with an AR-15 rifle, was holding his family hostage and then opened fire on responding officers and Yazzie was fatally harmed during the shootout.

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