Dallas Police Chief son Killed in Shooting
 

We were visiting with my father-in-law and as we headed to the sno-cone place down the street on the way out, we saw police cars from Dallas, DeSoto and Lancaster. I figured it had to be something bad. :(



"A shootout in Lancaster on Sunday evening left three people dead, including a 37-year-old police officer with the Lancaster Police Department, a 23-year-old man and the 27-year-old son of Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

The police officer was shot and killed while responding to a shooting in progress at an apartment complex, located in the 900 block of River Bend Drive, at around 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. Two other people were also shot and killed in the shootout, including a man identified as Jeremy McMillian."


http://cbs11tv.com/local/chiefs.son....2.1762618.html

Thanks for the link.

They were very vague with the details when I heard about the shooting this morning. Sad situation all around.

yeah it took my husband and I both a while to find a good source with this info. It seem that they are trying to keep it hush hush. I'm wondering if the fallen officer is suspected of having shot the DPD chiefs' son....

ETA: WTF is this now? I hope not :confused:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/21/...led/index.html

Resident Tiffany James said it may have been a case of mistaken identity. "I heard the officer say, 'Ooh. I shot the wrong person,' and he busted out crying. Another officer grabbed him and hugged him," James told WFAA

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....c20ebd52.html

This pretty much sums up what happened. Pretty ugly. The chief's son shot the officer and another man.

This reads like a murder-suicide combined with suicide-by-cop.

They were just vague with the details on the evening news too... Hm..

Probably not releasing much yet. Pretty common.

I wonder if they'll play the race card.

Who is "they"?

rumor has it that another officer was also shot (initially they were reporting 4 shot) and they think he was shot by yet another police officer. I wonder how much truth there is to that?

Long standing thing between Dr.Phil and me about whether things exist actually or only as soceitial conceptions. She thinks the "race card" is not real, but thinks that "suicide by cop."

Basically, if there is no such thing as the "race card" then there is no such thing as "suicide by cop." because they were both pretty much just invented by the media. But if people who say there is no such thing as the "race card" continue to assert that anything is "suicide by cop" or "suicide" by anyone else for that matter, then I assert there is indeed a race card.

So this is suicide by cop until they play the race card.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Race is not a "card." The "race card" phrase was introduced around the time of the big affirmative action debates of the 1970s and 1980s to pretend as though people imagine and introduce race when it is not a factor. It is often an attempt to minimize the social significance of race and pretend that it is a figment of people's imaginations.

Suicide-by-cop is a form of suicide that was NOT created by the media. This form of suicide initially received much attention in the gang and criminal career literature and has received more research and community outreach over the past 10 years. This research and outreach has included attempted suicide-by-cop (thus, you get to talk to the people who attempted this form of suicide) and completed suicide-by-cop (in which you speak to the officers, family members, and examine the details of the situation).

Shut up.

*golf clap*

In reading RU's post again, I really don't know what the hell he's talking about.

Is he just griping about where the phrases and terminologies came from? I have no idea what his point is.

Somehow he thinks suicide by cop cannot be real unless the race card is real.

That's illogical and stupid.