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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.
“five were killed in a single incident in 2016.” That was during Obama’s war on cops.
Don’t worry, Corey Cobb-Bey, Kamala’s got your back.
hes dead you dolt.
Please do not call posters dolts, especially not one of our smartest posters.
Let’s rethink who the dolt is
In the upcoming lawsuit that will be filed by his family, Kamal-toe will back the family’s contention that Corey Cob-Bey was an innocent child who dindu nuffin’ before being gunned down by ray-cist police officers, meaning that they deserve millions in compensation.
Who hurt you?