Saturday, July 12, 2014

Israel and Its [Latest] Campaign of TERROR and GENOCIDE Against Palestine!


STATE-VIOLENCE plagues many nations all over the world, such should be clear and obvious to everyone. Certain nation-states are particularly notorious for its state-violence, as well as the terrorist militarized police gestapo employed to mead out such violence against a nation's citizenry. Actually, it could be argued with reason that the largest most dangerous terrorist groups in the world are not shadowy nation-less cabals with cells in every country. But in fact, governments themselves. This form of TRUE global terrorism manifests itself in various yet similar formats: be it the homogeneously titled State Security Investigations Service (simply, Secret Police) who enforced oppression in Egypt during Mubarak's reign (newly reconstituted and doing the military's bidding since that country's 2011 revolution). Brazil's dreaded BOPE (militarized police units *aka Death Squads). Britain's long known, Orwellian police "security" state, which smothers all of the U.K. like a wet blanket. Or here in America, where we have increasingly militarized "SWAT" units - now armed with military hardware (including tanks) which are routinely employed to serve search warrants.


Yet, even amongst a short list of the most horrific actors guilty of some of the worst police-state atrocities on Earth, ISRAEL sits on top of that list! 



Brief back-story: on June 12th 2014 three Israeli teenagers were allegedly kidnapped in occupied West Bank, Israel as they were hitchhiking back to their illegal Jewish settlement. Immediately after the teens were reported missing, Israeli politicians blamed Palestinian leadership HAMAS for capturing the boys, despite the fact that there had been no evidence of foul play at that time. HAMAS denied the allegations. In the days following the missing report, Israeli Defense Force (IDF - Israeli military police/Israeli state-terrorists/Israeli Gestapo) launched a so-called "search" operation where they were supposedly trying to find the boys. But it was really more of a terror campaign in which more than 350 Palestinians citizens were arrested and tortured during this initial first wave, with 11 having been murdered.    

Jewish False-Flags? The three Israeli teens who were allegedly abducted and killed, seen here.  


During the period when the fate of the missing boys was still unknown (to most of the world at least), all of the Israeli leadership as well as craven Zionist supporters of Israel, waged a relentless propaganda war in which HAMAS and the Palestinian Authority were blamed wholesale for kidnapping the boys, and collective punishment against all Palestinian civilians was demanded. Homes and refugee camps were raided, dozens of innocent people were murdered, and hundreds of others were rounded up - including all of HAMAS' leaders stationed in the West Bank. IDF also launched "preemptive" missile strikes against various Palestinian targets (mostly civilian), murdering scores of people. 

This Palestinian woman inspects her home after it was raided and ransacked by IDF gestapo.


This crater is all that remains of a HAMAS training camp, after it was hit by an American manufactured Israeli missile.


Mourners hover over the body of 20 year-old Ahmad Sabarin during his June 16th funeral. Sabarin was murdered by IDF pigs in the Jalazone refugee camp just outside the West Bank city of Ramallah.


Revenge kidnapping: IDF capture and blindfold Palestinian men during their "search" for the missing teens.


Jewish Nazis: Right-wing Israelis burn Palestinian flag and yell racist slurs during an anti-Palestine protest on June 16th, four days after 3 Israeli teens were reported missing.
 

On June 30th 2014, the missing teen's dead bodies were "discovered" in an open field near Hebron. According to autopsy reports, all three had been shot shortly after they were taken. Two Arab youths (patsys) were arrested in "connection" to the kidnapping/murders shortly afterwards. Then, things got ugly.

Israeli Prime Minister/war criminal/bloodsucking monster Benjamin Netanyahu demanded revenge for the murdered teens. He, along with all of Israeli leadership (including its so-called "moderates") did the same in ratcheting up a racist propaganda campaign of false accusations and outright LIES. But such was going on from the very moment the teens were reported missing, even though it is likely that Netanyahu and Israel's intelligence service (the dreaded Shin Bet) actually knew about the boy's deaths long before anyone else had. 

Meanwhile, Zionists pigs and their capitulators took full advantage of the boy's deaths and used social media to ratchet up a racist smear campaign, making death threats and demanding  collective punishment against all of the Palestinian people.

One particularly ravenous and cowardly Israeli politician, Ayelet Shaked, openly called for GENOCIDE against "Palestinian mothers who give birth to little snakes". Shaked made this hideous declaration on her Facebook page on July 1st... one day after the teens corpses were "discovered". Such is the level of pure vitriol in the Israeli government that a sitting politician can make such brazen calls for genocide on her own public Facebook page. One could say in reaction that Shaked were Israel's answer to Sarah Palin, if not Joseph Goebbels. Thing is, she's not even that extreme by [their] standards. A former coordinator for the Likud party(Israeli far-right) as well as current member of the Knesset (Israeli congress) and current member of the religious nationalist Jewish Home party, Shaked is quite mainstream.

Racist Israeli "lawmaker" Ayelet Shaked, who openly called for war and genocide against innocent Palestinian people. 

   “This is a war. It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started.” - Ayelet Shaked


Israel is the only nation in the world in which every single one of its prime ministers was a war criminal of some sort. Current PM 
Benjamin Netanyahu is no exception to that trend.


Collective mass murder: Palestinian civilians search through the smoldering rubble of several destroyed buildings for victims. The buildings were targeted by Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip on Friday July 11th.  
Smoke rises from buildings following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike, as Palestinians search for victims under the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in another Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 11, 2014 (Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) 
Again, Ayelet Shaked is by no means an "extremist" in Israeli politics. She is typical. But not only that, she has broad support amongst the Jewish citizenry as well. The fact that her Facebook post calling for war and genocide received thousands of "likes" proves this sad reality. The level of sheer hatred and violent racism within Israel has always been astoundingly high. And when three Jewish teens turned up missing and then dead, egged on by political hatemongers, Zionist vigilantes took action. 

On Wednesday July 2nd, one day after Shaked's online post, 16 year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was abducted  by vile Jewish thugs who pulled him into a car then sped away. His body was discovered by his family not long afterwards. Burns covered 90% of his body. Autopsy reports showed that the Palestinian boy was set on fire and burned alive, as well as severely beaten. The kidnapping and gruesome murder took place in the Shoafat neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Six Jewish settler youths were later arrested and accused of taking part in Khdeir's murder. However, at least three of killers were later released, even though they had reportedly admitted to murdering Khdeir with revenge having been their motive. As of current, the homes of the six murder suspects remain intact. By comparison, the homes of the two "suspects" in the three Israeli teen's murders were destroyed by IDF terrorists immediately after their arrest.


http://cintayati.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/graphic-mohamed-abu-khdeir-forced-to-drink-gasoline-then-set-alight-by-violent-jews/

Mohammed Abu Khdeir's funeral was held soon afterwards, and was attended by thousands of Palestinian mourners. The procession made its way through the streets of occupied East Jerusalem, towards his final resting place. Even then, mourners faced road blockades and harassment from Israeli police. Khdeir's grizzly murder sparked outrage and subsequent riots amongst Palestinian youths. Violence between Arabs and the Israeli pigs against which they were defending themselves lasted more than two days, coinciding with the first day of Ramadan on Friday July 4th.      




Soo horrific was the murder of Abu Khdeir, that even a small number of Israelis were outraged. A group of Anti-Zionist orthodox rabbis are seen here mourning over Khdeir. They view Zionism itself as being counter-productive to the Jewish people. They are a tiny minority. 


Mohammad's father Hussein Abu Khdeir (left), seen here speaking with embattled Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas (right, in slick suit). Khdeir is hold a poster of his son, murdered by Jewish thugs. The P.A. shares dual governmental roles with HAMAS over occupied Palestine.


Mother Suhad Abu Khdeir seen here holding a cell phone image of her murdered son from her home in Shuafat, an Arab suburb in occupied Jerusalem. 


As if the abduction, torture, and horrific murder of one child hadn't been enough for one family to bare, Mohammad's close relative was himself beaten and arrested. Fifteen year-old Tariq Abu Khdeir was set upon and savagely beaten by masked Israeli police pigs on Thursday July 3rd - just one day after his cousin Mohammad was buried. He was then arrested, denied medical treatment, and [initially] kept on house arrest without charge by Israeli occupying authorities. Israeli police gestapo claimed that Tariq was part of a group of youths who were throwing rocks at officers - A bold-faced LIE. As one can clearly see in the following video, Tariq is on the ground by himself, being kicked, punched, and beated repeatedly by two masked cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tkTIG0-4BI 

Tariq Abu Khdeir's beaten face seen here, courtesy of Israeli pigs!




Tariq also happens to be an American with dual Palestinian citizenship. He lives in Tampa, FL, but he along with his family have been visiting with relatives in occupied Palestine since June. His father Salahedeen Abu Khdeir says that Tariq was staying at his uncle's home in occupied East Jerusalem at the time. Salahedeen was in court pleading with an Israeli judge to have his son's injuries tended to (including possible internal bleeding) while he was still in custody. Despite Tariq's American citizenship, the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem as well as the U.S. State Dept. have pretty much had no comment on the 15 year-old's situation - other than to say that they have "little recourse" but to follow Israeli legal procedures. Typically the U.S. empire is ready to go to bat for any of its citizens when they're being abused in another country, as any nation should of its own citizens... however, there is a major exception to this. That being, whenever the Israeli colonial Apartheid govt. abuses an American citizen, all of a sudden the U.S. govt. is "powerless" to do anything.   

Happier times: Tariq seen here. Photo courtesy of the AbuKhdeir family. 


As a matter of fact, Israel has pretty much had free reign to mistreat individual Americans and has been doing so for decades. Perhaps the most egregious and polarising example of the lopsided relationship between the two countries was when American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an IDF armored (and Caterpillar-owned) bulldozer in 2003. In an act of nonviolent resistance, Corrie was standing in front the home of a Palestinian family which was about to be demolished in Rafah, occupied Gaza Strip. Despite Corrie having been in plain view, the operator of that bulldozer ran right over her - a sadistic, deliberate act of murder. That operator and his identity remain protected by the Israeli govt. to this day. No one has ever been held responsible for Corrie's murder and the U.S. has done nothing to hold Israel accountable for the death of this American. 


http://electronicintifada.net/content/photostory-israeli-bulldozer-driver-murders-american-peace-activist/4449















As of July 15th 2014, nearly 200 Palestinians have been murdered by IDF gestapo forces, during a relentless siege which has been going on since mid June. Most of the dead were not HAMAS members. They were unarmed non-combat civilians. Around 1400 more civilians have been displaced, rendered homeless, and forced to flee to Egypt due to an unending barrage of Israeli rocket-fire. 

This goes far beyond "collective punishment". Most people - especially most people who get their indoctrination from Western mainstream corporate media - still think that this is all about the abduction/murder of three Israeli teenagers in June (a crime mind you, to which there remains no credible suspects and no real motive... assuming the boys were not murdered by govt. operatives. To this day, HAMAS and the P.A. both deny any involvement. No one else has confessed, and the crime remains unsolved). In justifying its latest act of U.S.-funded genocide, Israel cites "self-defense" and "HAMAS rocket attacks" as a reason for its continuous shelling of Palestinian areas, destruction of innocent people's homes, kidnapping, arrest, detainment, torture, and murder of civilians. Not ONE SINGLE ISRAELI has been killed during this [latest] assault (update - Israel apparently has suffered its very first casualty from a HAMAS rocket. The victim was said to have been a 37 year-old man distributing food parcels to IDF gestapo near the Erez crossing and occurred at around 7:00pm Middle Eastern time on Tuesday July 15th. The victim's name has not yet been released. - Sources: the Israeli Police). And despite the massive amount of Zionist propaganda both online and in media claiming that Israeli citizens are under constant threat from HAMAS rockets, the fact is that HAMAS rockets have resulted in very few Israeli casualties in the entire history of the Jewish state.  To date, 28 people have been killed by rockets launched from Gaza during the entire history of cross-border rocket fire from Islamic militants. 
  
HAMAS rockets are homemade, short ranged, light-weight, and lack advance technology. They have reportedly killed a total of 28 people, so far. Israeli missiles are American-made, laser-guided, and fitted with heavy warheads. Each missile is capable of leveling entire buildings and killing dozens of people, leaving behind craters 40 ft. wide and 20 ft. deep.
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/rocket-deaths-israel.html


On Saturday July 12th 2014, solidarity demonstrations in support of Palestine took place in cities all over the world, including the U.S. The following are images from a rally here in Portland, OR. It was organized, in part, by Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights or SUPER.  


'BDS' refers to a global movement to BOYCOTT, DIVEST, and SANCTION Israel for committing genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, land theft, mass displacement, environmental destruction, and Apartheid. Zionist apologists typically refer to such a movement as "economic terrorism".


 

































There should be no doubt where president Obama gets his marching orders from. And to whom his does his bidding...
http://www.algemeiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/netanyahu_obama.jpg

Another Israeli crime against humanity.


Worther sites to check out. Research. Find out for yourself what the terrorist, Apartheid pseudo-state of Israel is truly all about! 

http://www.davidsheen.com/racism/

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

http://normanfinkelstein.com/

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Brazil World Cup: Rise of the Police-Gestapo/Security State


As the World Cup inflicts itself upon the nation of Brazil this year, Brazilian authorities inflict brand new weapons upon the [poor] people of Brazil. However, the people are NOT taking it lying down this time. In a country internationally infamous for its DEATH SQUADS, such a collective show of resistance against corporate capitalist fascism, as well as police terrorism, is nothing short of remarkable! 


 
















http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/shootings-vendettas-and-corrupt-police-the-dark-side-of-the-brazil-world-cup/story-fnkjl6g2-1226945822614


http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/shootings-vendettas-and-corrupt-police-the-dark-side-of-the-brazil-world-cup/story-fnkjl6g2-1226945822614







http://jamaicansmusicz.com/street-kids-murdered-by-brazilian-police-ahead-of-the-world-cup-2014/










god and country: Rio's gestapo guard the famous 'jesus' statue from infidels.


















Saturday, June 14, 2014

Vegas Cops Wasted in Crazy Double Murder/Suicide!

FULL DISCLOSURE: Targeting Cops does not celebrate nor seek joy in the death of law enforcement officers. We seek to inform citizens of the misdeeds, crimes, and atrocities of corrupt cops, wherever it happens.  That said, no tears will ever be shed over a cop's demise here. And if police ever happen to be killed by perpetrators who turn out to be White supremacists, only to end up committing suicide right afterwards, then it is of no particular loss to humanity.  

   

On Sunday June 8th 2014, all Hell broke loose in Las Vegas, NV, when a married couple walked into a CiCi's pizzeria and executed two gang members of the Las Vegas Police Gestapo (LVPG) as they were eating (not doughnuts, surprisingly). The crazed couple then ran into a near-by Walmart where they gunned down a random bystander as he allegedly tried to confront them. Shortly afterwards, the two killers died - either in a murder/suicide pact or one being killed by police while the other committed suicide.

The couple have been identified as Jerad and Amanda Miller, ages 31 and 22 respectively. The innocent do-gooder they killed has been identified as Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31. The two cops who perished were officers Lyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31. Right after they killed the two officers, the Millers were reported to have yelled out "THIS IS REVOLUTION!", after which they ran out of the pizza restaurant. The weapons the Millers were reported to have used were a Smith & Wesson 9mm, a Ruger .38 caliber revolver, and a Winchester 1300 12-gauge pump-action shotgun w/ pistol grip.It remains unknown whether these weapons were legally owned by the Millers, especially given Jerad's prior criminal convictions (petty crimes, mostly).


After shooting the two cops, the couple was reported to have drapped a 'Gadsden' flag on one of the officer's corpses, as well as a manifesto with a swastika pinned to the other cop's dead body (though it has been largely theorized that the killers were referring to the cops themselves as 'Nazis' - the alleged purpose behind the use of the swastika symbol). The Gadsden or "Don't Tread on Me" yellow banner, symbolized by a 'coiled rattlesnake', dates back to the so-called "American Revolution" and is very popular amongst the Tea Party movement, to which the Millers Jerad and Amanda were strong adherents. They also ransacked the cop's bodies for weapons and other personal effects.

After this, the Millers stormed into a nearby Walmart store. Once there they shot and killed Joseph Wilcox. Wilcox, as it turns out, was a good guy with a good heart - but did not have the good sense to mind his own business. Wilcox, who was at the store returning a monitor, was reported to be a Concealed Carry (CC) permit owner. When he heard gun shots coming from the back of the store, Wilcox ran towards the scene and upon making eye contact with Jerad, drew his own weapon. Apparently Wilcox had gotten the drop on Jerad with a clear shot. However, the do-gooder was ambushed by wife Amanda who shot Wilcox in the back. 

Word is that Wilcox was an aspiring wannabe cop himself and strongly contemplated joining the LV police academy, despite his mother's concerns. Well, he had his chance to be a cop on Sunday June 8th, or at least try and act like one. Little did Wilcox know, the lunatics he confronted had just successfully clipped two actually cops mere minutes earlier. He could have ran towards the front entrance the moment he heard gunshots (as "Black Friday" sales in recent years have proven, Walmart shoppers have no problem running). Instead, he choose to be a "hero". The result was that he died in a Walmart store. Cleanup on aisle 5. Coffins on aisle 10.  

He should have ran: Joseph Wilcox's mother Debra and younger sister C.J. hug one another after viewing the body of their son/brother at a funeral home Tuesday, two days after he was gunned down by Amanda Miller. 
Aftermath of Las Vegas shooting rampage
  
By this point, police had been summoned to the store. Initially it had been widely reported that Amanda Miller shot her husband Jerad in the head then committed suicide as police were closing in at the Walmart. It has since been reported that Jerad had actually been shot by a police "metro" rifle, after which, Amanda killed herself. This, however, is coming from the Las Vegas Police and has not been substantiated independently - as of yet. In any case, Jerad and Amanda Miller died and bled out on the floor of a Walmart, in the automotive section.  

Twisted couple: Jerad and Amanda from possibly a year or two ago, in a this candid photo. Note the Avenged Sevenfold poster and toys on the walls. If these two were indeed Nazis, they were poor Nazis.
Jerad and Amanda Miller sans makeup. The couple are believed to be responsible for the deadly shooting of three people in Las Vegas, including two police officers.

He had a good heart: Joseph R. Wilcox seen here. A Concealed Carry holder and wannabe cop, Wilcox drew his weapon on Jerad, only to be gunned down by Amanda Miller. 

Officers down: slain Vegas cops Beck and Soldo seen here.



Monday, June 9th - after the massacre: mourners/cop-lovers gather at a makeshift memorial at "CiCi's" pizzeria where officers Beck and Soldo were slain. Then mourners went inside for the $5 lunch buffet, an awesome deal. 

Last stand: the Walmart where the cop-killer Millers breathed their last breath.
Image: Five Dead, Including 2 Police Officers In Las Vegas Shooting


As many spree killers are want to do in this technological age, the Millers had left a long and very public trail of themselves on the internet - dating back years. Many photos of the couple together, separate, and together dressed up as Batman arch villains The Joker and Harley Quinn have been lifted from their facebook pages. Initially meeting at a flea market in Lafayette, IN several years earlier, the two announced their relationship status on facebook. In 2012 they had gotten married and many photos of the newlyweds, doned in purple sequined outfits, can be found online. Forgoing the politics and murders for a moment, one could easily draw the conclusion that they were mere nerds who dressed up in cosplay, kept toys, and attended comic book conventions. Of course, it wasn't all smiles and kisses and nerdy sweet shit.



Having never been an official part of any organization and with apparent White supremacist/Neo Nazi ties remaining sketchy, the Millers nonetheless expressed anti-govt., pro-2nd Amendment, pro-Tea Party, and stern Libertarian views both online and in real life. Jerad reportedly got into many heated political arguments with his family. He also posted several videos of himself on youtube, ranting (sometimes coherently) about the government, the police, and various conspiracy theories. Some of these videos show Jerad in full Joker character. Amanda has also expressed extreme anti-govt. views as well as vague death threats to no one in particular on her facebook page.

Also, the pair flocked to the defense of anti-tax cattle rancher Cliven Bundy back in April of this year. Bundy, whose ranch is located just outside Bunkerville, NV in Southeastern Clark County,  has been embroiled in a 20+ year legal battle with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over unpaid grazing fees (totalling about $1 million dollars over the past 20 years) and Bundy's refusal to renew his grazing permit amid rule changes that took place in the early 1990's. Shit came scary close to hitting the fan on April 5th 2014 when the dispute between Bundy and the federal govt. escalated into an armed confrontation. That's when dozens of self-proclaimed "patriots": Tea-party supporters, 2nd Amendment advocates, etc. descended upon the ranch in fierce support of the Bundy family. The group of radical, right-wing protesters also included members of the Sovereign Citizens movement, as well as anti-govt. militia. Many of them were armed and pointing their weapons at BLM officials and ranger federales, who were attempting to round up and remove "trespassing" cattle from allocated federal lands which belonged to Bundy.

Miller time: Patriot cop-killer Jerad gives interview during fed. standoff at Bundy ranch.


The Millers were part of this armed group, and Jerad himself is on video having been interviewed while on the 160 acre ranch. However, Jerad and Amanda were both kicked off the premises by Bundy family members - apparently due to the Millers being "too extreme", as well as Jerad's extensive criminal record. Jerad apparently took the rejection particularly hard. But being asked to leave the Bundy ranch for having "too extreme" views seems strange... especially since Cliven Bundy himself has shown his true colors as being a racist piece-of-shit. Since then many of his supporters, as well as conservative/Libertarian political commentators, have denounced the rancher's racist comments and distanced themselves from him. A video of Cliven Bundy's remarks can be viewed here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cliven-bundy-are-blacks-better-off-as-slaves



As of now a potential massacre has been averted and Bundy won himself a battle. However, when dealing with a robotic, maniacal, multi-tentacled headless beast such as the American government, memories are long and almost nothing is forgiven. The federales are most likely working on a list of criminal indictments against Bundy. Unfortunately, the rancher has isolated himself and squandered most of the good will he's received. And in the wake of Jerad and Amanda's murder spree, the Bundy family has had to do their own distancing from a married couple to whom they had a very brief and awkward association with... who've since gone on to waste two cops at a cheap pizza buffet. 

Plus, even without the 'slavery/welfare/abortion' comments, it's difficult to muster sympathy for a rural NV rancher claiming rights to land that does not even belong to him, nor the U.S. govt. We're talking about land that actually belongs to Native Aboriginal people, but that fact seems to be completely absent from the Bundy ranch debate.  
  
 http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2013/2014-04-24-ABC-WN-Bundy.JPG

The armed confrontation between Bundy ranch defenders and federal authorities, as well as the media hyperdrive accompanying the situation, has brought up bad memories of other past govt. standoffs such as Ruby Ridge and the Waco siege - two infamous events in which things ended up very badly for both sides. Alas, the "Battle of Bunkerville", as the Bundy ranch standoff has been punningly referred to, ultimately turned out to be bloodless. Local sheriffs as well as BLM officials elected to call off their attempts to confiscate Bundy's cattle and back off (for now), in a bid to de-escalate an increasingly intense situation. No doubt some people had Ruby Ridge and Waco in mind when this decision was made.    

Jerad, in 'Joker' form, delivering a manic political diatribe via youtube. 


However far out the Jerad and Amanda's views were (which are still being pieced together post-mortem), the two certainly hated cops. This may have been for reasons both justified and personal, as husband Jerad had several criminal convictions ranging from drug dealing to petty theft.

Future cop-killers Amanda and Jerad exchange roses during 2012 wedding ceremony. - courtesy facebook 


Nerd Alert: Amanda Miller seen here w/ lame KISS impersonators, nerding out at a nerd convention. Later on, she would shoot a cop in the face.   

Of course, one can always faithfully count on mass corporate, lamestream media - unwaveringly consistent if nothing else - to take a slightly uncommon shooting and infuse it with a decidedly pro-cop agenda. It is already exceedingly rare for cops to die on the job, even more rare when such deaths come at the actions of violent perpetrators. And yet, this false, obscene narrative persists in major media that being a cop is one of the most dangerous professions there is. And that cops come under increasing threats from increasingly dangerous and armed criminals every year. Incidents like this certainly feed into that LIE. However, many would be very surprised to learn that 'law enforcement' is actually one of the safest professions there is. 

According to this PRO-POLICE memorial website, 105 pigs had their "end of watch" in 2013. But if their stats are to be trusted, barely over 40 of these deaths can be attributed to job-related, criminal aggressors. The rest, the majority were due to a variety of accidents and illnesses. 
See here: http://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2013

By comparison, sanitation workers are twice as likely to perish on the job as cops. And their job is at least as important, if not more so! As a matter of fact, of the ten most dangerous jobs in the U.S., 'police officer' does not even make the cut! 



All three were armed. All three were trained, two vigorously so. And yet, it did not do them a damned bit of good.