Brave police officer killed during domestic dispute call
San Antonio police officer, woman killed in domestic disturbance call
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SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio police officer and a woman were shot and killed Thursday when the officer answered a domestic disturbance call on the city's west side, officials said.
Officer Hector Garza, 48, was fatally shot shortly after arriving at the residence about 9 a.m.
He had been with the force 25 years and is the fifth San Antonio police officer to die in the line of duty in recent months.
Also killed was Jessica Garcia, 19. They were dead at the scene.
Another man, John Luna, 42, was shot in the leg. He was being treated at University Hospital on Thursday night.
Police said they have arrested a suspect and are preparing capital murder and murder charges against the man, police spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said in a statement.
Garza was shot after responding for the second time Thursday morning to a domestic disturbance call. He had been to the house accompanied by a partner on the first call about an hour earlier.
Previously, the last officer to die in the line of duty was 11-year veteran John Anthony Riojas, 37. He was shot once in the forehead during a struggle with a man he had been chasing on foot at an apartment complex on the city's northwest side on Feb. 2.
Manuel Fernando Garza, 20, has been charged with capital murder and was ordered jailed without bond for Riojas' death.
DaveMac is a moron
Disregard anything he posts. Youd think he would have a badge to polish or something.
Can anyone tell me WHAT this
Can anyone tell me WHAT this story has to do with Ron Paul, or the struggle for liberty in this country?
I'm going to start flagging these postings as irrelevant. This blind supporter of police no matter what ("The cops, right or wrong!") is out of control here.
It has nothing to do with Ron Paul
David MacGregor is a self confessed anarchist http://www.sovereignlife.com/essays/essay-index.html
He seems to be a joker who likes to play games and stir up trouble.
Not to doubt you here, but
Not to doubt you here, but the guy (DaveMac) sure doesn't come across as an anarchist ---- sounds like the stereotypical hypocritical, unthinking, angry, always obediant Neocon drone. But, he might just be a very skillful troll.
look behind the mask
he is yanking your chain.
Very interesting, vapatroit!
Thanks for that info .... just one question - how do you know that Dave Mac and Dave MacGregor of sovereign life are the same person? Just curious :)
I know because DaveMac
posted a link to an article at strike the root by David MacGregor that he recommended everyone read.
I can't do calculus but I can put 2 and 2 together;-)
LOL
I only made it to Trig myself .. thanks ;-)
I didn't know
that anarchists held police officers in such high regard.
to be honest here
The police get shot sometimes it's part of the job but they abuse power more than you know.
In my opinion a dead cop is a cop who wasn't a very good cop. They are supposed to be trained in such things.
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Stop the NWO....It's just illumi..Naughty !
You're an absolute idiot.
You're an absolute idiot. No one can anticipate everything that will happen. You don't know what happened. You weren't there.
A dead soldier, by your logic, wasn't a very good soldier either.
People can get killed even while performing their job in an exemplary manner.
davemac, davemac, davemac......
You were the one who got mad when I made the post about being prepared, trying to paint me as some extremist.
I think your right, the people we need to reach out the most to are the police and the military, for sure.
However, for every story you come up with about brave officers I can come up with one about police abuse or torture.
What does that mean? It means that you can't make judgements about a person because they wear a uniform. Yes, some are brave and heroic. Some are anything but heroic, they are selfish and corrupt.
The conduct of officers more depends upon the powers they are given and the how corrupt their fellow officers are, besides the other million factors that play into this. It is a complicated subject, and officers cannot be lumped into categories of "brave" or "bad apple".
I know you are trying to make people see that officers should not be immediately seen as dirty pigs. However, it is just as foolish to wholly embrace officers as it is to wholly reject them.
This is where discernment and wisdom become useful. Nothing can be lumped into categories.....you simply have to use your best judgement.
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." - Ron Paul
If this post matters, respond. If it doesnt, dont. Let it die
When any good decent person is killed, it is a tragety. I am not sure why Dave is posting these, but I am sure that the asshole gene that alot of people are born with end up on both sides of the law in and out of uniform. This post will do nothing but deter possitive productive RP support. Maybe thats why its posted I dont know.
Very well said!
I feel the same way - but you expressed it better than I did :-)
davemac is entitled to his opinion...
...but should refrain from speaking for others. as for these posts regarding the "brave" LEO's, the fact that these individuals were killed is obviously tragic, but it doesn't make them heroes and it doesn't change the fact that they put on the uniform and agreed to spend their working lives enforcing whatever laws they were told to enforce however offensive most of those laws are to the constitution they swore an oath to. furthermore, they chose to live by the sword...
"scouring the net"
Clown, it took me one search to find pages and pages of officer killed stories.
First... grow up and stop
First... grow up and stop calling people "clown".
Second... you are deliberately misleading people. When I asked you to post the link for one of the stories you posted after it appeared that maybe it was an old one, you responded with...
"Not sure about the link"
You are sure about the links, because here you are bragging about how easy it was to find pages and pages of these old stories. You just didn't want to post links, because you knew full well that none of these were current events.
Do you realize at all that what you are doing is actually hurting your cause? Try being honest and forthcoming to start with, and then maybe you'll get somewhere with people.
There is a chronic anti law enforcement thread problem
here on DP. I'm sick of it and you people are hurting Ron Paul and alienating the LE community. It's stupid. I don't give a damn what you think about my threads.
You people? I've never, ever
You people?
I've never, ever posted an anti-law enforcement comment anywhere on this board. My problem isn't with people being pro or anti law enforcement. I do have a problem with people being deliberately misleading, however. If you have a point to make, make it honestly and post your links. Don't withold the links in hopes that people will believe these are current events.
Here we go again ...
"You people." Did you read my post? In the interests of full disclosure, my grandfather was the chief of police in the small town I grew up in. My cousin is a deputy back in my home state. But that's ok - just lump us all together. Nothing like a little collectivism on a board for Ron Paul!!
What's your damage and
What's your damage and what's your point, buddy? ALL COPS = GOOD, no cop is ever bad, and we should all just bow down to those who enforce bad laws? I'm really starting to wonder whether you ever have a conception of what Ron Paul, freedom and personal liberty is all about. You are obsessed with cops, and think we should worship every one of them it seems.
i can't apologize to you enough desaulinator...
i really thought you were someone else...after sleeping on it i realized i was wrong...i do disagree with some things you say but that is ok...i am very sorry for thinking of you, and accusing you, of being someone you are not...i was pretty hard on you, i don't expect you will forgive me but i am still very sorry to say the least
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
Thanks Ecorob
Well, I can get pretty hard-nosed here too, but thank you for apologizing --- that's very gracious of you. And I know just who you thought I was, and oh man, that guy really gets my goat too! (although I know I should not let him).
It was an honest mistake, so no hard feelings. And I suspect I gave as good as I got, so it's a wash anyway, LOL!
Great point
Good post. Sad that anybody who brings up a different perspective is subject to name-calling. Having said that, this thread, like the other one, has nothing to do with Ron Paul. Shoot, I support the police (the good ones, anyway) and even I don't feel these have a place here. Just my two cents.
Very old news
Much like your other posts, this occured in 2007.
It appears to me that you are scouring the net for any and all stories about police officer deaths, regardless of age, and blitzing this forum with them as propoganda... while implying that all of them happened this week. I appreciate an honest cop... but come on.
DaveMac
Are you having a bad day? Why the police posts? Can we stay on "Ron Paul" topic please?
I got it
Just making sure our LE community doesn't think we are a bunch of anti authority nutjobs. There is a little gang here that likes to post anti-LE stories and videos. They need to be sent home.
I dunno, Dave
Seems like "radicals" make up at least a good half of the people who post here regular-like. What makes you so sure your slavishly obedient and conventional mentality is the majority?
God bless our cops
Ron Paul supports you