A Dallas police officer was “executed” and two others injured Thursday in what officials called a “targeted” and “premeditated” attack on law enforcement.
Police fatally shot Corey Cobb-Bey, 30, after he assassinated Officer Burks.
Police said in a statement Friday that Officer Darron Burks was parked near the front entrance to a community center between call assignments just after 10 p.m. when the suspect approached his squad car.
Corey Cobb-Bey, 30, appeared to be recording on his cellphone as he briefly spoke to the officer through the driver’s side window, police said. Then, they said, Cobb-Bey drew a handgun and fatally shot Burks.
“I know that the word ‘ambush’ has been thrown around in the last 24 hours or so,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference Friday. “That’s not what happened here. Officer Burks was executed.”
Roughly a dozen other Dallas police officers have been killed in the past decade. Of those, five were killed in a single incident in 2016.
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If they can’t just fire you and hire someone else through the “defund and refund” method, then they just find some way to kill you and try to pass that off as just part of a dangerous job. Have your detectives managed to “figure it out” yet?
I am not advocating violence of any kind against innocent people. However, in today’s America police or individuals are not taken out for no reason. Police and
and non-police had better stick to the laws on the books. In America, police rarely
patrol middle class or upper white middle class areas. White universities are not targeted. And we know those are places of high drug activity and usage. Police target poor, marginalized areas. And those areas tend to be inhabited by people of color. They are targeted by police. And many people who are cops, shouldn’t be cops. Such people seek to abuse and violate the Constitutional Rights of the powerless and under-served. It is only with the advent of cellphone and body cameras that we all have seen what corrupt police will do to innocent citizens. We have seen cops plant drugs, guns, create laws that are not on the books, murder and commit rape. Just recently, a Pennsylvania cop raped a 13 month old baby! No one in their right mind would ever trust a cop. I certainly don’t. Qualified Immunity, Civil Asset Forfeiture and the right of cops to lie to citizens must be revoked, rescinded all across America. And cops who are charged with crimes, need to be made to liquidate all assets to assist in settlement payment to victims. There must also be a judicial appointed civilian review board. Cop recruits must be made to have an Associate Degree and/or 30 hrs of Constitutional Law. And any cop whose body camera is turned off, video modified or deleted, should be charged, convicted and incarcerated as a felon, for destroying evidence. Why would you trust anyone who can legally lie to you? The Supreme Court fucked up royally on that one.
I wonder if that cop ever ruined someone’s life with some bullshit arrest for which that person was innocent but now has an arrest on their record for life. Nah that kind of shit never happens.
It does happen. And when men like Cory step up and retaliate it is a great thing to see. I been arrested a few times for things I did not do and had I not been aquitted after the last arrest I was fully prepared and ready to target the pig involved. I knew where he lives and had pictures of his kids. I was ready to kill the MF. Thank God I was aquitted.
Yes, because you sound like a mentally sound, reasonable, productive, great person to have around in a family and society. I wish you hadn’t been aquitted and came sniffing around my home. I’d be performing a public service.
You aint the pig that arrested me for a robbery when I had video evidence of me being 800 miles away in a different state at the time. Also had ten witnesses that I was never there that day. We had another video of yours truly drinking coffee at a restaurant at exactly the same time this pig swore to a gj that I was one of four men involved in this robbery at a hotel 800 miles away. I had no idea what they were talking about. I was not there.
So WTF are you mouthing off about rambo? This pig stood in front of a gj and said I robbed a hotel using a 22 revolver. And got them to lay the charge. So ya this pig would a been fair game cuz at that point I did not care any more. I was willing to go down with that pig. So you better just STFU and mind your own business. I dont need to sniff around. I can hit you at 400 yards and blow your head off.
This was not the only incident I had to deal with this particular pig. There were a few others too. This was the most serious example. And this was all back in the nineties. Every time I hear about a pig gettin’ hit………………….I LOVE it.
You ran into some bad guys and now you’re wishing all police die? This officer was very well-liked. His colleagues were crying over his death at the hand of a lunatic. Every career has a percentage of bad employees. This was reportedly a good guy.
Do you wonder how many people he might have saved from abuse or assault or helped in the worst time in their life or just made feel better being kind when something unpleasant happened to them? No. Tells me something about you.
these incidents have happened in the past. why the inaccurate and lying headline?
It is the headline I took from The Washington Post. I can’t allow trolls. If you have something to contribute, fine, but calling people names and trying to trash articles inaccurately isn’t going to work.
Always….always treat traffic stops as if you are in down town Fallujah in 2006. You will likley survive.