MIAMI (AP) — Florida authorities say a Tarpon Springs police officer was shot and killed early Sunday by a fugitive trying to evade a warrant.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Sunday that police have arrested 23-year-old Marco Antonio Parilla Jr. on suspicion of first-degree murder.
The shooting does not appear to have any connection to the ambush killings of two New York police officers.
Authorities say Officer Charles Kondek responded to a noise call around 2 a.m. at an apartment complex. They say Parilla was pounding on doors, and fired at the officer.
Authorities say the suspect then got in his car and ran over the officer before he crashed into a pole and another vehicle.
Kondek previously served on the New York City Police Department for more than five years.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A 24-year-old police officer and a suspect died after a shootout Saturday afternoon.
Officer Tyler J. Stewart, 24, died at Flagstaff Medical Center after he was shot by a man who was a suspect in a domestic-violence case, police said. Stewart is the second Flagstaff police officer ever to be killed in the line of duty. On June 21, 2000, Officer Jeff Moritz, 30, was killed after he pulled over a teenager as the teen drove around his neighborhood in a truck playing loud rap music.
Stewart was looking for the man — identified as Robert W. Smith, 28, of Prescott — about 1:30 p.m. in the 800 block of West Clay Avenue when Smith fired several shots at the officer, police said. Smith then shot himself and was pronounced dead at the scene, police added.
Investigators do not believe Stewart fired any shots, but they continue to investigate the matter, Sgt. Margaret Bentzen said.
Stewart was taken to Flagstaff Medical Center in critical condition and later died, police said.
Stewart had worked at the department for less than a year, police said. He was a graduate of Boulder Creek High School in Anthem, Arizona, and Concordia College in California, police said.
"This is an enormous tragedy for our department and the family of our Officer. We are a very close knit organization, and know that all members of the Flagstaff Police Department are grieving at this time. With that being said, all of the men and women of the Flagstaff Police Department extend our prayers and condolences to the family of our Officer Tyler Stewart," Chief Kevin Treadway said in a statement.
"It is heartbreaking to lose one of our officers," Mayor Jerry Nabours said. "We collectively mourn for his family and the entire department."
A candlelight vigil has been scheduled by Stewart's family and the Flagstaff Police Department for 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Officer Down Memorial Statue at the front of the police department at 911 E. Sawmill.
The shooting was the second one of a police officer in northern Arizona in the past three months. In October, a tribal police officer of the Navajo Nation was shot in the face during a shootout with a male suspect in the town of Kaibeto, which is 75 miles north of Flagstaff. The officer survived.
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More police getting shot at from Florida to Los Angeles
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(CNN) -- A week after two New York City officers were killed while sitting in their patrol car, more police across the country are getting shot at.
In Los Angeles, two officers were driving in their patrol car Sunday night when at least one gunman open fire, police said. The officers returned fire and were not injured. One suspect was arrested, and police recovered two weapons -- including a rifle.
But a second suspect remains at large, prompting an hours-long manhunt involving about 100 officers, Los Angeles police Capt. Lillian Carranza said.
Police warned residents to stay indoors part of South Central Los Angeles.
And in Pasco County, Florida, someone fired three bullets toward two sheriff's deputies as they were sitting in their cars Sunday morning, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said.
"Both deputies reported hearing the whizzing sound of each projectile as they flew by," the sheriff's office said. "Deputies did not see the suspect or the vehicle from which the shots were fired."
Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever fired at the deputies.
But the threats against local authorities didn't stop there.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is also searching for whoever spray-painted graffiti reading, "Shoot MP Cop." The graffiti was written on a road barrier in a subdivision called Meadow Point.
The latest shots fired at police come after New York police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were gunned down in their patrol car on December 20.
The gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, shot himself at a subway shortly afterward. Earlier, he had posted angry messages on social media against police and government, citing two black men killed by officers.
On Saturday, more than 25,000 police officers from across the country and even Canada attended Ramos' funeral.
Liu's funeral will be January 4.
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FLAGSTAFF Ariz- A northern Arizona police officer killed over the weekend was SHOT REPEATEDLY AT CLOSE RANGE by a domestic violencesuspect after calmly asking the man ifhe could pat him down forany weapons, authorities said sunday..
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"The unions have blamed de Blasio for permitting protests over police conduct... "
Mayor, Commissioner Condemn NY Cops Again By Associated Press January 6, 2015 6:55 am
Bill de Blasio, William BrattonNEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio, his administration threatened to be overwhelmed by a rift with rank-and-file New York Police Department officers, on Monday condemned the thousands of cops who turned their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.
In his first public remarks on the officers' protests, de Blasio said the cops' searing rebuke was hurtful to the families of the two officers killed in an ambush last month and was an offense to the city at large.
"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line," de Blasio said at a news conference held at police headquarters. "I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."
De Blasio has faced public police protests four times since the brazen daytime ambush on Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu: at the hospital where their bodies were taken, at a NYPD graduation ceremony and when he delivered eulogies at both officers' funerals.
He has stayed silent on the matter for two weeks, not making himself available for reporters' questions even as declining arrest numbers have raised concerns about a possible NYPD work slowdown. But on Monday he responded during a carefully choreographed news conference with Police Commissioner William Bratton that touted the city's record low crime levels but also was clearly intended as a public display of support from City Hall to the NYPD.
Bratton continued to back de Blasio during his widening rift with the rank and file, saying he was "very disappointed" in the officers who did not honor his request to refrain from protesting at Liu's funeral on Sunday.
"A funeral is not the place for that," Bratton said. "Come demonstrate outside City Hall. Come demonstrate outside police headquarters. But don't put on your uniform, go to a funeral and engage in a political action."
The chasm between the police unions and de Blasio has created the biggest crisis of his tenure. The unions have blamed de Blasio for permitting protests over police conduct that has, in turn, fostered an anti-NYPD atmosphere they believe contributed to the killings of the officers.
Patrick Lynch, head of the city's rank-and-file police union, has repeatedly said de Blasio had "blood on his hands" from the deaths and has supported the officers' rights to protest. He declined to comment about the mayor's remarks Monday.
But Edward Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said de Blasio was using the slain officers' families to "deflect what's really happening."
"The truth of the matter is the mayor knows there is bad blood between the rank and file," Mullins said. "And the mayor wants to pretend like he didn't create it, but he did."
De Blasio pointed to the historically low crime numbers, even as stop and frisk has declined dramatically, as proof that it was possible to create a "safer city" and a "fairer city." Overall crime was down 4 percent and there were 332 homicides, down from 335 last year. There were nearly 75 percent fewer stops and frisks.
But for the second straight week, the number of summonses for minor criminal offenses and traffic and parking violations decreased by more than 90 percent compared with the same week a year earlier, statistics show. The figures first plummeted in the week after the two officers were killed. Arrests for more serious offenses were also down 55 percent.
Both the mayor and police commissioner urged New Yorkers to look at the overall figures showing that crime continued to decline - not the minutia of a couple of weeks over the holidays that were marred by tragedy and flooded with protests that took officers away from routine duty. Bratton said he would take an intimate look at the numbers to determine whether anything nefarious, like a deliberate slowdown, was going on.
deblasio doesn't have that much power...surprise!!!! not saying all cops are bad....but the good cops don't blow the whistle on the bad ones either. police brutality is common place ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY!!! the cops seem to have difficulty separating the criminals from the non-criminals!
sorry folks....deblasio is just being used as the sacrificial lamb for stating the truth.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"The unions have blamed de Blasio for permitting protests over police conduct... "
Mayor Bill de Blasio,...condemned the thousands of cops who turned their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.
fostered an anti-NYPD atmosphere they believe contributed to the killings of the officers.
Patrick Lynch, head of the city's rank-and-file police union, has repeatedly said de Blasio had "blood on his hands" from the deaths and has supported the officers' rights to protest. He declined to comment about the mayor's remarks Monday.
But Edward Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said de Blasio was using the slain officers' families to "deflect what's really happening." ---
1. The Mayor doesn't has neither the ability, or the right, to not allow protesting of the actions of the NYPD.
2. The anti-NYPD atmosphere was created by the actions of the NYPD, not the mayor.
3. NYPD protesting at a funeral, directly against the wishes of the families, makes them look even worse.
Protestors against the NYPD actions should turn their backs when confronted by the NYPD.
This entire issue between the cops and the mayor stems from the curtailing of stop and frisk. The cops see it as making their jobs more dangerous. The courts determined the actions to be a violation of people's rights, but the cops don't care, they still want to stop and frisk.
Certainly being able to search anyone at any time may increase officer safety, but the Constitution can't be suspended because cops are scared to do their jobs.
Innocent people have the right to not be searched.
Innocent people have the right to not be killed by the NYPD.
Taxpayers have a right to not pay for the actions of the NYPD.
DeBlasio should requiredemand malpractice insurance for all NYPD employees.
Drunken, Violent Cop Arrested Twice in Four Months. Keeps His Job and Gets Paid Vacation
By Matt Agorist on January 5, 2015
“Go ahead, call the cops. They will believe me before you, because I’m a cop.”
Chattagnooga, TN — A Chatanooga police detective has been arrested, again, within a four month time frame and he’s still being paid.
David Catching, 34, was arrested in September for suspicion of driving under the influence. He was reported to police for weaving in and out of cars, nearly striking many of them. Several beer bottles were found in his vehicle and he failed the field sobriety test.
The Times Free Press reported that Catchings tried to use his status as a cop to get out of the arrest.
“It should be noted during that during this entire incident, [his] mood changed from compliant to hostile,” the affidavit read. “He advised several times that he was a cop and asked to try and work things out.”
“He advised we were brothers and I should be arresting bad guys,” the police officer present wrote in the affidavit. “He stated his aunt signs my paycheck and advised I was a rookie and didn’t know anything about police work.”
Apparently ending up in jail again was humorous to Catching, as his mugshot featured a smile.
On Wednesday, this stand-up guy landed in jail again but not for drinking and driving; this time it was drinking and beating, his mother-in-law.
According to the Times Free Press, Janet Ashford, told police that she woke up to find Catchings drunk on her couch around 3 a.m. When she told him to leave, she said, Catchings struck her with an open hand across her face.
Catchings called her a liar when she threatened to call police and said, “Go ahead, call the cops. They will believe me before you, because I’m a cop.” Despite the threat, Ashford called the cops, and Catching was locked up, again.
The department has promised a “second internal affairs investigation” into the violent drunken shenanigans of Catchings. Meanwhile Catchings gets to enjoy his $42,000-a-year salary, while he sits at home and puts back six-packs on the tax-payers’ dime.
Ironically the police chief Fred Fletcher, said “I’m impressed with local law enforcement, that people are held to the same standards whether they are law enforcement or not.”
But he is not being held to the same standards.
Catchings job is to enforce the law. However, he has been shown to be a failure at this, as he cannot even stop himself from breaking it. If he were employed in the private sector he would most assuredly have been fired by now.
If you are the fry cook at McDonald’s and instead of frying french fries, you fry hamburgers, you will be fired.
If you are the greeter at Wal-Mart and instead of greeting people as the walk in, you punch them in the face, you will be fired.
Neither McDonald’s, nor Wal-Mart would put you on paid vacation for doing the exact opposite of what you were hired to do.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Paradise Lost is, among other things, a poem about civil war. Satan raises 'impious war in Heav'n' (i 43) by leading a third of the angels in revolt against God. The term 'impious war'. . .implies that civil war is impious. But Milton applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute King Charles I. In his poem, however, he takes the side of 'Heav'n's awful Monarch' (iv 960). Critics have long wrestled with the question of why an antimonarchist and defender of regicide should have chosen a subject that obliged him to defend monarchical authority
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im·pi·ous adjective \ˈim-pē-əs, (ˌ)im-ˈpī-\ : feeling or showing a lack of respect for God : not pious
Full Definition of IMPIOUS
: not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent — im·pi·ous·ly adverb
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The whole point of Psalm 82 is that earthly judges must act with impartiality and true justice, because even judges must stand someday before the Judge. Verses 6 and 7 warn human magistrates that they, too, must be judged: “I said, `You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.' But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.” This passage is saying that God has appointed men to positions of authority in which they are considered as gods among the people. They are to remember that, even though they are representing God in this world, they are mortal and must eventually give an account to God for how they used that authority.
so one must have respect for oneself before electing those who will be judges....if 'the self' is under minded through public school systems and those set up to 'help' then those elected will be the worst of 'the self' and we will reap what we sow......
unlike a monarchy the responsibility lies within 'the self' of the masses when voting/electing/setting up systems......
ye shall be as gods....
I'm not religious by any stretch of the imagination but there is reason here to wrestle with....either the elected leaders restore respect for 'the self' or all WILL be lost as we know it and the state will become the godhead permanently, a military state .....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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