Violent crime is exploding. Cops leaving and arrests plummeting may set off a wave of dangerousness that impacts cities and counties far beyond urban areas.
The damage happening to cities due to violent crime far exceeds what happened during the Capitol Hill riot.
Let’s give cops the forum they deserve via Congressional testimony before more quit and violence increases.
All cops (especially big city officers) need an opportunity to tell the nation and world what’s happening and what needs to be done.
Detroit, MI – One Detroit police officer has been suspended and another is likely facing the same after a routine review of dashcam video revealed they fled a shooting scene rather than engaging the gunman (video below).
The incident occurred on June 30 near the intersection of Schoolcraft and Greenfield, WJBK reported.
Detroit Police Interim Chief James White told reporters at a press conference that supervisors were conducting a routine review of officers’ dashcam videos when they saw the unusual scene unfold.
The video showed a man on a sidewalk who took off running as a blue sedan rolled up on him.
Then, right in front of the police car parked across the street, a gunman leaned out the passenger-side rear window with a semiautomatic rifle and opened fire on the man who was running away.
Dashcam video showed the officer driving the police vehicle hit the gas and fled the scene, driving right by the suspect vehicle, instead of trying to intervene.
The officers did ultimately turn around and return to the scene to see if the man who was being shot at needed assistance, WJBK reported.
Neither the gunman nor the driver of the blue sedan have been identified or arrested.
“This incident is troubling and it is unfortunate and it’s not consistent with our training,” Chief White told reporters. “And it’s not consistent with the expectations that are set by myself and my command team.”
The city’s interim police chief said he had launched an investigation into the incident, WJBK reported.
“What I’m looking to understand is prior to leaving the scene and providing assistance, what did they think they were doing,” Chief White said. “I need to know a lot of things that I don’t want to discuss right now, but it has to do with, were they secure enough to take immediate action.”
The supervisor who discovered the dashcam video sent it up the chain of command and top brass took action immediately, WJBK reported.
The officer who was driving was suspended with pay while the investigation is conducted, WBJK reported.
Chief White said he was waiting for the other officer to return from medical leave so that the department could finish its internal investigation and make decisions about the officers’ future with the Detroit Police Department.
Other former high-level Detroit police officials told WJBK the officers’ actions were unacceptable.
Retired Detroit Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt said the officers should have engaged the gunman.
“Yes, you pull your gun,” Dolunt said. “He’s shooting at somebody. You pull your gun when you’re in fear of your life, or someone is in fear of their life.”
He said the officers hadn’t told supervisors what happened when it happened, WJBK reported.
“It appears they were hiding something at first because again, it came to light through a routine investigation of the cameras, and the supervisor says ‘Wait a minute,’” Dolunt said. “So it wasn’t reported to them right away.”
Former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee said the video upset the community because it showed police running away from danger, WJBK reported.
“I think what is disconcerting for citizens is, and I don’t want to generalize, we see a lot of instances where unarmed individuals are given a hard time by the police,” Godbee said. “And police say they fear for their lives. This was an actual shooting in progress that the officers witnessed and they did not engage the threat.”
Chief White defended his department and said the actions of two officers don’t represent the members of his police force, WJBK reported.
“Individualized incidents do not represent the hard work of the over 2,000 men and women of this department that they do day in, and day out,” the chief said.
Watch the incident unfold in the video below. WARNING – Graphic Content:
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This is Lincoln County (Colo.) Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Hutton. He was shot multiple times in what police are calling “an ambush”. Authorities say the military veteran and school crossing guard is in serious but stable condition.
Deputy Michael Hutton has serious injuries but will survive. The suspect’s body was found in a nearby field.
LINCOLN COUNTY, Colorado — The man accused of shooting a Lincoln County deputy multiple times outside of Limon early Thursday morning has been identified.
Lincoln County Coroner Andy Lorensen said the suspect is Tristin Ensinger, a 25-year-old man from Ohio who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Ensinger is believed to have shot Deputy Michael Hutton while he was responding to a theft-in-progress call near mile marker 386 of Highway 40.
Hutton has been with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) for seven years and is being treated for at least two gunshot wounds at a Denver-area hospital. The sheriff’s office said Thursday that Hutton is expected to survive.
LCSO announced on Twitter Saturday that Hutton had been moved out of intensive care, saying he “continues to amaze us.”
“I struggle to find the word that we lived for those few hours trying to figure out that Mike was OK,” said Captain Michael Yowell, a spokesperson for LCSO. “We called for everybody, we were looking for somebody who just took out 10% of our law enforcement officers. We’re only 10 wide and Deputy Hutton represents 10% of us.”
San Diego, CA – The Cops Off Campus Coalition (COCC) organized a nationwide protest on May 3 to demand police be kicked off school campuses but it wasn’t very successful.
The event, named the “National Day of Refusal,” seemed to find success only in California where students skipped classes and protested on multiple campuses in various major cities.
COCC circulated a petition ahead of the protest that asked students and faculty to pledge to be absent “from work, class, teaching, and more” on May 3, Campus Reform reported.
Signers of the petition promised they were “canceling/refusing to attend synchronous classes, refusing to watch asynchronous lectures, refusing to engage in any form of university-based labor (including email response), refusing to prepare materials (such as a class recording) for later asynchronous use, protecting students, colleagues, and workers from retaliation, and more.”
“As a member of a campus community, I am horrified that—amidst a global pandemic, relentless state and vigilante violence against Black, brown, and Indigenous people, and national calls for abolition—schools across North America have committed to increasing police budgets,” signers pledged. “College police forces are increasingly militarized, and I support the nationwide call to demand cops off our campus to make our university truly safe and free for all, and I will not cross the picket line.”
The petition demanded the removal of all police from all school campuses, public or private, from Kindergarten through college.
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