It’s a horrible tragedy that is becoming all too common in America.
Two Des Moines, Iowa police officers were brutally murdered early Wednesday in separate ambush-style attacks while they were sitting in their patrol cars.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired at 1:06 a.m. and found an Urbandale Police Department officer who had been shot. Authorities from several agencies saturated the area after that shooting, and about 20 minutes later discovered that a Des Moines officer had been shot in a patrol car at an intersection, Des Moines Sgt. Paul Parizek said. The killings happened less than 2 miles apart and both took place along main streets that cut through residential areas.
The shootings follow a spate of police ambushes, including the murders of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Five officers were killed in Dallas on July 7 and three were killed later that month in Baton Rouge.
Des Moines and Urbandale Police later said in a statement that they had identified 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene as a suspect in the killings, and announced at around 10:30am that Greene was in custody.
https://twitter.com/charlyhaley/status/793792071660363776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Urbandale Sgt. Chad Underwood said he believes this is the first time an officer in his department has been shot in the line of duty.
Urbandale officers are equipped with body cameras, but they don’t run constantly and it’s unclear whether there was video of the shootings.
The attacks on police this summer in Dallas and Baton Rouge came in the wake of several high-profile police shootings of black men, fueling a national debate about police use of force – a frequent topic in the nation’s presidential race.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has argued that police need the freedom to use greater force, while Democrat Hillary Clinton says officers need to be restrained.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad called the killings Wednesday, “an attack on the public safety of all Iowans.”
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the police officers who were tragically killed in the line of duty as well as the officers who continue to put themselves in harm’s way.”
Urbandale is a suburb of about 40,000 people in the Des Moines metro area with about 50 officers. Officials in Urbandale cancelled school for the day. Des Moines has about 375 sworn officers.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
IF you catch them , EXECUTE them in PUBLIC.
Yes, why is Mr. Greene still alive? Iowa has no death penalty. He will occupy a prison cell in Ft. Madison for years to come. And he’ll be a hero among the inmates there. Waste of food and air. Should be dead.
I hope they draw n quater him ! Rotten discusting coward !
How did they come up with this guy? With no video or witnesses, did he admit to it, did someone he told turn him in? Maybe just out of political expediency, did someone say he did it, much like the video that caused the Benghazi protest lie. Food for thought…
I would think the same thing,,,Likely a video somewhere or a “rat” . – Just remember, It’s not good to blunt your sword before an arrest in any case. I have to commend them for keeping quiet until they have a complete case against the suspect who ever they may be.
Time will tell, but I have to stand with you right now. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land,,,unless your name is Clinton, anyway. Then no amount of proof and damning evidence will get you convicted.
I am sure the puke will be caught and hopefully executed sooner or later.
The latest news story is that he turned himself in.
This latest revelation of the tragedy of these two police officers killed in action FOR DOING THEIR JOBS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE TO SHOW HOW THE LAWLESSNESS HAS GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL. ALL BECAUSE OF THE LAWLESSNESS STEMMING FROM THE “SWAMP”. UTTERLY APPALLING AND DISGRACEFUL THAT AMERICANS ARE NOT OUTRAGED ENOUGH TO HAVE SHIFTED THE LAWLESS OUT OF THE (DISTRICT OF CORRUPTION) LONG AGO. THAT IS WHERE IT HAS ORIGINATED FROM AND THAT IS WHERE IT SHOULD END BY THE LAWS OF THE CONSTITUTION BEING FORCIBLY ENFORCED BY THE “RELIABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS”.
The current culture emanating from the WH is lawlessness. How many of our laws are being ignored and go unenforced every day by this administration? The situation has become out of control. Liberal attitudes have a huge effect on low mentality individuals like this person. Whatever they do is OK in their minds…they see examples of immoral behavior all the time and they believe the erroneous liberal media who exemplify illegal actions. This must stop and it will not stop if we continue to support liberals in our government.
Ditto!
Amen the police need our support.They will all agree that the few bad ones should be gotten rid of ,they do not want them either.It makes their job harder to do. God bless the police-firemen and military Trump supports them and so do I. If you think for one moment Hillary respects any law you are very ignorant of the times we are in.Thank you all for your service!
I agree with you whole heartedly. We need to get rid of all the rogue cops! They are not only a danger to our citizens but bring unwarranted danger to the honest police officers who,are here to protect and serve.
Now is not the time to talk about so-called “rogue cops”. You sound like a Hillary supporter. These two officers were on duty protecting their fellow citizens and are NOT rogue.
Suck it , Dori.
Douglas and Rick, Dori may have gotten a bit off track, but I do not believe she was suggesting the rogue cops be taken out by assassination.
agreed. Amen.
I can sympathize, but on the other hand, you have some law enforcement unjustly abusing and incarcerating innocent patriot white men, which of course, does not get any media attention. Take a look at what happened to one Dustin Heathman of Florida. This innocent man is still in prison for a belligerent police confrontation that was not Mr. Heathman’s fault. This story in on the American Free Press website.
Karen, every since the beginning of time when mankind decided it needed policing mistakes have been made. Also, unfortunately, there are times when the wrong person is hired for a job (not necessarily police either) and they abuse their power. A real good example of this is present day happenings in this election, It does not make it right, but it does happen.
To my knowledge many law enforcement officers have never done anything bullying or unethically wrong yet they are grouped with those small minority that do. Please do not judge these people based upon anothers actions. Many times I have seen officers risk their lives in any number of situations and then go on about their duties without comment or wanting recognition. I do know that good law enforcement officers diligently hunt down those that are unethical and weed them out – but with the way the lawyers and courts have warped this country the process is long, harrowing and sometimes not productive.
You want to blame someone? Blame the Supreme Court as they are the ones that have the final say in the molding of our laws.
The ambushing of anyone is unacceptable behavior,but the ambush of police is something else again. These people are out there to enforce the laws and they get a bad rap in that they did not make the law they are enforcing. Shooting, bombing, knifing, dragging, or any other method of eliminating a police officer should be met with immediate trial and subsequent capitol punishment which should be publicized (front page of paper, nightly news etc.).
It is beyond comprehension that someone who is out there doing their job to protect the population from the malcontents and criminal element receives little or no observance of their rights when the people that slay them immediately have so many rights that the taxpayers bills have been magnified 100 fold.
My condolences to the families of these officers. May justice be swift and and example bold enough to discourage this from happening again be dealt out.
Obama’s opinion for what it is worth;
The military men and women volunteered and paid to put their life on the line for their country.
The police officers are paid to put their lives on the line in the line of duty.
Hopefully this guy will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If he is found guilty hopefully the jury will give him the death penalty. The best way to discourage this type of behavior is to execute the guilty.
Although the death penalty has never been shown to be a deterrent. It does, on the other hand, remove a psychotic creep (or a mistakenly arrested innocent person) from the streets forever.