San Diego Police Shooting: One Officer Killed, One Rushed to Surgery

[Crabby Appleton]

Source: NBC News

A police officer was fatally shot and another seriously injured during a traffic stop in San Diego late Thursday, officials said.

Authorities said early Friday that one person was in custody, but told residents to stay indoors while they searched the area for other potential suspects.

SWAT vehicles, helicopters and patrol cars were involved in the extensive operation.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-diego-police-shooting-one-officer-killed-one-surgery-n619571

[SheilaT]

1. There should be no special importance attached to this shooting just

because police were involved. Road rage shootings occur all the time. With all the guns out there, this is just another day in America.

The only difference is that in this case, a whole lot more police power was brought in. When it's some motorist shooting another motorist (or a four year old inside a car), not much happens.

[cigsandcoffee]

2. The importance that I'd attach to it...

...is that it's illustrative of the life and death danger a police officer can very quickly face during a routine traffic stop. This is one reason beat cops can be pretty nervous, and one thing most of us don't face in the day to day performance of our jobs.

[jayfish]

4. There Are 14 Occupations That Rank As More Dangerous Than Police Work.

You going to start posting fatality reports every time a roofer falls to his/her death?

http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/

[cigsandcoffee]

9. I'm sure being a roofer or Navy Seal is more statistically dangerous.

So what? That hardly detracts from the potential lethal dangers that a street cop can face on any given day, and in the case of these two officers - did.

It's not an easy job, and the pressures can be enormous. Not sure why anyone would want to argue otherwise.

[jayfish]

13. No, it's not "more staticically dangerous".

It's more dangerous. ...period. The stories of their deaths aren't posted here though because there's no political point to be made and no muck to be stirred up. It's not LBN.

[cigsandcoffee]

14. Possibly, it's because the roof didn't murder the roofer. n/t

[Botany]

5. Next time you have to put on a bullet proof vest to go to work call me.

n/t

[SheilaT]

6. Read post 4.

Meanwhile, how many people are killed every day by guns in this country? How many wounded and maimed?

People who go into police work clearly understand the nature of their job.

[Botany]

7. We have some bad cops in this country but police everyday go to work and that allows ....

..... our society to function. They put their asses on the line for all of us 24/7.

[SheilaT]

8. Yes. But there are also hundreds of millions of guns out there

and every single day people who are not putting their asses on the line get shot. To sanctify the life of a cop over the life of, say a four year old, is wrong. The cop put on his uniform that morning knowing there was a distant possibility of something terrible happen. The four year old did not start her day that way.

[cigsandcoffee]

10. Cops run toward gunfire while we run away. Surely that counts for something, no? n/t

[SheilaT]

11. And the genuinely innocent are merely cut down where they stand. Or sit.

The number of officers killed in the line of duty has been declining. That should count for something.

[cigsandcoffee]

12. Looks like the number of cops murdered is spiking this year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-shooting-deaths-law-enforcement-spike-2016-073943175.html

An attack on the police is an attack on the government.

[LanternWaste]

17. "Sure, we have some metastasizing cells in the body but white blood cells everyday go to work

"Sure, we have some metastasizing cells in the body but white blood cells everyday go to work and that allows our body to function."

Why can't we focus on the white blood cells, consider them heroic and ignore the cancerous ones-- there's just a few and people make too big a deal out of them.

[Botany]

18. The next time you have a problem please call the cop the ...

.... who stops to help you a metastasizing cancer. Everyday and 24/7 all over
this country the men and women of law enforcement put their asses on the line to
help people. Yes, we have some racist and or bullies as police officers and they
and the people who protect them have no business being in their jobs but to ignore
the kindness and courage that cops do everyday is bullshit.

[madokie]

19. Right on

[GummyBearz]

20. That is a dangerous position...

...ignoring shootings in which cops are involved in. That is how we ended up with so many cops shooting innocent people - not a lot of people even knew it was going on. Thankfully proliferation of video recording technology is finally shedding light on the matter. I think it is in innocent people's best interest that any shooting involving cops should be scrutinized rather than ignored.

[NaturalHigh]

3. Hopefully the injured officer will pull through.

[judesedit]

15. One more killed. Did the gun he had help him one bit? Wake up

[turbinetree]

16. In the last 72 hours

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

[adigal]

21. I don't understand why cops aren't more anti-gun????

It makes their job so much more dangerous.

Just left Paris and our friends tell us they aren't ever afraid of the police, as many of us are. And that the police don't have to worry about crazy people shooting them.

Why won't police departments start pushing for stricter gun regulations???