Wisconsin Temple Shooting Hero Cop Brian Murphy Shot 8 Times, Waves Off Aid

walker said it. It just shows the irresponsible spew holes these FOOLS have.

Walker I'm sure knows the value of police. He's just such an asshole that he is willing to screw them to keep his pals rich.

and Gov. Walker is the biggest jerk and hypocrite even mentioning the first responders in his remarks.

For all those that bash cops, read this.

The man in the arena.

Occasionally, one proves to be a hero. I also am proud to celebrate those guys. But until police forces prove that they can be trusted by the people and are there for the people, there is no reason to respect police.

and I know this from experience. But you have your opinion and I have facts and real world experience.

if they can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. No, I wouldn't do it.

... and few worse than bad ones.

In my 35 years, I never once abused my shield, never abused a detained suspect, never abused a prisoner. I went into LE with the promise to myself that I would treat everyone as I wanted to be treated.
Did I ever have to use force on someone, of course, but I never ever went beyond what was needed to subdue some one who wanted to fight.
Every rookie I trained I passed on to them my philosophy of police work, treat people with respect and 99.9999999999999% of the time the respect would be returned.
And your right, bad cops were the worse because they dragged the whole dept. down with them and I also had no use for those that would defend a bad cop. They were just as complicit as the bad cop.

And I know that there have been horrible abuses, but every cop I ever dealt with seemed like a good person, and I honestly believe the vast majority are. Thanks for all you do.

I wish more people would live by that philosophy in their jobs and lives in general.

have 35 years experience as a cop and you never abused your shield. Not "once," you say.

I suspect that we don't hire angels to be police officers. If anyone is an angel after 35 years, it has to be a rarity.

1. How many times while wearing your shield did you look the other way when your fellow officers were using excessive force?

2. How many times while wearing your shield did you remain silent when your fellow officers were using unnecessary force to punish civilians to demonstrate their authority, to retaliate against those who did not show what they perceived to be sufficient deference, or just for the fun of it?

3. How many times while wearing your shield did you do nothing while your fellow officers took illegal steroids so they could bulk up, be stronger, and be meaner? How many times have you done nothing while seeing " 'roid rage" from those taking such steroids?

You say that you disapproved of "bad cops" and that you "had no use for those that would defend a bad cop."

Yet what are the odds that someone who would openly criticize "bad cops" would last for 35 years?

I wholeheartedly agree with you that those who "would defend a bad cop" are "just as complicit as the bad cop."

Will you agree that cops that look the other way, who remain silent, and take no action, while under a duty to uphold the law, are just as complicit as bad cops? And that by looking the other way, by remaining silent, and by taking no action, they have abused their shields?

So are the trauma doctors and nurses who saved his life and the ones working to save the other victims. And the EMT as well.

If there is anyone I missed feel free to add.

There are thousands of men and women dedicated to serving and protecting the community.

for him to take 8 shots and still have the presence of mind to decline help and redirect it to the victims.

His nephew just told me that several years ago he (the uncle) funded the building of the temple by himself. He owns service stations in the area.

He was in the business office yesterday morning when he heard the ruckus. He told his wife to hide in the closed then went out and confronted the man with a knife, wounding the shooter.

But he was overcome by the shooter, knocked down and shot.

He bled out before the paramedics could get to him and died later at the hospital.

Even the FBI were telling his family that he was a hero and probably saved lives.

Happy the cop made it and was so brave.

I was just going to post about this man. A truly selfless act and the very best of humanity. I still cannot understand why humanity can be so inhumane.

... to act according to the tenets of their faith. It is one of the five fundamental tenets of Sikhism to defend other human beings and stand up against tyranny. Actions ... and not mere lip service.

He's also quite a hero!

where a cop actually went above and beyond for his fellow citizens and humans.


Too many stories of cops being asses and doing rude "Above the law"Things just really soured me against all in uniform.

Sounds like the vest saved this cop's life all right.

His gallantry merits the equivalent of a Distinguished Service Cross.

He is a hero.

Nice pic of the Sikh leader. He went looking for a guy with a gun with a butter knife.

OAK CREEK, Wis. — They couldn't have come from two more different worlds: One of them, Lt. Brian Murphy, a classic New York-style cop with more than two decades on the streets. The other, Satwant Singh Kaleka, a deeply religious native of India who came to the U.S. as an impoverished immigrant and made his way up buying gas stations.

Yet here they were, both cut to the ground and shedding blood at different parts of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on Sunday. Both had come up against the gunman whose murderous path ultimately left six people dead. Murphy was armed with a police weapon, Kaleka with a butter knife. Both paid dearly, Kaleka with his life, Murphy nearly so — he lies critically wounded in a hospital, but is expected to survive.

The pain of tragedy seems always to be accompanied by a search for a compensating story of courage. In Oak Creek, there are two such accounts. The public has seized on Murphy and Kaleka as the heroes, their desperate bids to halt the gunman's rampage being told and retold in community halls, in newspapers and on talk radio programs.

FBI agents hugged Kaleka's son before telling him how his 65-year-old father had confronted the much younger gunman with the knife, keeping him away from his wife and other temple followers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-milwaukee-sikh-shootings-heroes-20120807,0,1968166.story