Police arrest 5 people suspected of firing shots at Washington, D.C., officers

Quote:DEVELOPING: Police arrested five people for allegedly shooting at officers in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday, officials said. No injuries were reported.

The group allegedly fired at police to avoid arrest, not as part of a targeted attack on cops, a police official told The Washington Post.

Officers in marked police cruisers were responding to reports of gunshots just after midnight in southeast Washington, D.C., near Martin Luther King Elementary School, when the cops were shot at by people inside an SUV, police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.

Police returned fire at the suspects, who barricaded themselves in the vehicle, Sternbeck said. Officers ordered the group to come out, but they refused.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/12/pol...cers0.html

Its a good thing police did not shoot and kill any of them. The WNBA is running out of room on the back of their shirts to place more names of thugs who got shot in the act of being a thug.

The FoxNews title wording feels clickbait-ish, as if to lead you into thinking it was another Dallas type of attack.

But an exchange of gunfire with officers to avoid arrest while barricaded is not unusual.

Quote:Officers in marked police cruisers were responding to reports of gunshots just after midnight in southeast Washington, D.C., near Martin Luther King Elementary School, when the cops were shot at by people inside an SUV, police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.

"If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is 'Run!' You know what's sad? Martin Luther King stood for non violence. And I don't care where you are in America, if you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going down." - Chris Rock

(07-12-2016 08:36 AM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  

Quote:Officers in marked police cruisers were responding to reports of gunshots just after midnight in southeast Washington, D.C., near Martin Luther King Elementary School, when the cops were shot at by people inside an SUV, police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.

"If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is 'Run!' You know what's sad? Martin Luther King stood for non violence. And I don't care where you are in America, if you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going down." - Chris Rock

Sometimes. Here in Louisville I-65 was recently renamed Martin Luther King Highway in the County limits and It goes through the Suburbs, Airport on the South side up to the JFK and Lincoln bridges spanning the Ohio River. South of Louisville Metro it becomes the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Highway. Not much action there outside of the occasional road rage found anywhere else.

(07-12-2016 08:31 AM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  The FoxNews title wording feels clickbait-ish, as if to lead you into thinking it was another Dallas type of attack.

But an exchange of gunfire with officers to avoid arrest while barricaded is not unusual.

There is no longer any difference between Washington and Fallujah.

(07-12-2016 09:59 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 08:31 AM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  The FoxNews title wording feels clickbait-ish, as if to lead you into thinking it was another Dallas type of attack.

But an exchange of gunfire with officers to avoid arrest while barricaded is not unusual.

There is no longer any difference between Washington and Fallujah.

Fallujah has less crime. Better baba ghanoush, too.

IMPD officer's house shot at, man in custody
The suspect, March Ratney, was identified at the scene by witnesses. He was wearing a black shirt with the words "f--- the police" on the front, and "black lives matter" on the back.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local...se-vehicle