Shooting leaves 2 Tampa police officers dead

Source: TBO

TAMPA - Two Tampa police officers are dead after being shot this morning during a traffic stop.

A massive search is under way for the suspects – a man and woman in a red 1994 Toyota Camry.

Officer Jeffrey Kocab, 31, had been with the department for about 14 months, coming from the Plant City Police Department. His wife, Sara, is nine months pregnant.

Officer Dave Curtis, also 31, had been with the department for almost four years. The former Hillsborough County jail deputy leaves behind his wife, Kelly, and four sons, ages 9 years to 8 months.

Read more: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/29/290937/shooting-leaves-1-tampa-police-officer-dead-1-life/news-breaking/

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...I missed the part where the article says that "gang members" were involved in this shooting. You know something the rest of us don't? The article did say that the shooter is believed to be black, so maybe that's what you're referring to???

Something about the BEHAVIOR of murdering two police officers who have stopped you in traffic gives me sort of a, you know, "gut feeling" that one or both of the suspects may have had some kind of compelling REASON to take extreme measures in order to avoid being taken into police custody.

Like, maybe being a fugitive from justice, or having an extensive criminal record, or having illegal drugs or an illegally possessed GUN in the car with them.



Time will tell whether or not my instinct is right on this. It usually is. Most violent crime is committed by people who have already proved themselves to be violent criminals. It's extremely rare for someone with no criminal record, or someone facing nothing worse than a misdemeanor warrant, to suddenly murder an innocent person, much less two police officers.

Just poking fun at someone who apparently refuses to see the obvious. I don't generally believe in extrasensory perceptive powers.

;-)

I iz an expurt spellur.

and you were about to explain the science of gang bangers.

Not that employment would have been guaranteed.

My old high school physics teacher moved on to teaching physics in FL's only all-gifted school (he's very close to retirement). He's probably one of the happiest people I know. He should have been teaching college-level (he has a PhD) but LOVES teaching children and rotates from middle school to high school every few years.

and is still walking the streets. These two officers should still be alive today if justice had been served for this thugs priors. So sad. 4 boys to grow up without a Daddy because of this fucking POS.

Local news?

www.btls.com

The thugs name is Dantae Morris and his rap sheet is longer the you could ever imagine for someone 24 years old.

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We'll figure that out as the story develops.

What do suggest a fucking hug or a nice long talk with him about why it is wrong to kill people ?

Maybe if you knew how cold and ruthless these little fucking gang bangers are you would put away your kid gloves and wake the fuck up.

1 Punish the killer for the crime they have done

2 try to figure out what makes people turn so cold and ruthless and work to stop that process in an effort to avoid future tragedies.

In accordance with the current laws that are on the books, justice was served.

:argh:

I hope the police are able to capture him without anyone getting hurt.

they damn well will put an effort in, hell killing 2 people would get a huge effort anyways, the fact that cops are looking for cop killers will make them look harder.

the entire county was locked down.

And yeah, they got their man.

life of crime and arrests, belongs in prison, but was out and killed people.

Typical.

It's because people don't want their taxes to pay for prisons. If the gov was not blowing our taxes on paying the war enterprises we'd have enough in federal money to lock people up again - which we haven't been doing since Bush 2 got elected and in 2001 he cut funding for all state prisons.

Either a capital murder trial and a date with Old Sparky at public expense, or the far less expensive "hail of police gunfire" option.

Watching some trash ass giving a shout out in support of this pile of shit on the news...

I hope they take him alive. I want him to live the rest of his life in prison.

Suffer, motherfucker.