u/border_dad
· 5h
An extensive record plus a paper order is the old script. Change the script.
South Carolina police officer killed, another wounded in gunfight with suspect who had extensive record
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A restraining order on the fridge. A record on the sheet. DeLong, 29, still went to the door.
Summary
- Fox News reports Columbia, South Carolina, Officer Christopher DeLong, 29, was killed Saturday and a second officer wounded after a gunfight with a man who had an extensive arrest record.
- Two officers answered a domestic call just after 9:30 a.m. A woman said a man she had a restraining order against was in her home destroying property. He was gone when they arrived.
- They found him about an hour later. Chief W.H. Skip Holbrook said the department gathered under the worst circumstances and that one officer succumbed to his injuries.
- DeLong had two years on the job and leaves a wife and two young children.
Commentary
A wife still sits in a vinyl hospital chair with two kids and a badge that will not come home. She already knew the restraining order was paper.
That is the gap. 9:30 a.m. One hour later. An extensive record. The honest dad already paid the patrol. The paper paid nothing.
Look every working father who still kisses a kid before a shift in the eye and answer this: if a restraining order cannot hold a door, who still owns the street?
Comments
If a restraining order cannot hold a door, who still owns the street?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I walked a domestic. The second trip is when the gun comes out.
u/rule_first
· 4h
9:30 call. Hour later contact. Two years on the job. File those times.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied precincts still treat a violated order as a crime, not a memo.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Holbrook named the heartbreak. Name the prior sheet too.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a plant that fires you for a no-show. A record should mean a cage.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Two children lost a father because paper lost to a gun.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A city that cannot keep a door will not keep a border.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 29, two kids, 9:30, and the extensive record. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Honor DeLong. Enforce the order. A fridge magnet is not a lock.
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