2 Cops Shot Dead in West Memphis (Illegal Aliens?) —Video (Updated)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 20, 2010, 1:18 PM
2 police officers were killed in West Memphis today. 2 more were injured.
The drug suspects were pulled over on a drug interdiction stop around noon on Interstate 40. They shot the officers with AK-47s.
One of the dead suspects is shown here in the parking lot of the West Memphis Walmart, site of the second shooting scene. (Commercial Appeal)
Two police officers were shot dead in West Memphis today and two others were injured in a shootout. The suspects were shot dead in their van at a Walmart. Police had pulled over a white van with Ohio plates (belonging to a church) when they were shot ded. FOX News reported that the suspects were Hispanic. CNN reported that the suspects used automatic weapons.
Interstate 40, where the shootings occurred, is a known drug route.
WMCTV has video of the shootout at the Walmart.
WCRB reported:
Two West Memphis police officers have been shot and killed near a busy interstate highway and media accounts say two suspects also have been shot and killed.
1 of the dead officers is the son of the West Memphis police chief. The Commercial Appeal newspaper of Memphis, Tenn., said two Crittenden County sheriff’s deputies were wounded when they exchanged gunfire with the suspects in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
The newspaper and TV station WMC reported that the two suspects were killed.
Police chief Bob Paudert said his son Brandon was 1 of the officers killed. The other dead officer is Bill Evans. The chief said the officers had pulled over a vehicle with an Ohio license plate along Interstate 40.
UPDATE: I called the West Memphis police tonight. They have not yet released information on the suspects. There will likely be another press conference tomorrow.
–Please keep the families and friends of these brave men in your thoughts and prayers.
UPDATE: (Friday AM) The two suspects haven’t been identified. Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler declined to say whether investigators knew anything about the men, but said authorities don’t believe others were involved in the shooting. Investigators have refused to name the suspects, say where they’re from or even give their race or nationality.
The suspect’s van was stolen.
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NC Cop commented:
Thoughts and prayers to their families.
Godspeed, officers.
sdfsdfs commented:
Memphis was one of the cities hit with the flood wasnt it?
bg commented:
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Rock commented:
My sincere sympathy to the love ones who have been touched by this tragedy. And for all in Tn. far to many in this nation know the loss and frustration this event has thrust upon you, hopefully their sacrifice will be understood and appreciated. And while this is of little consolation now, better days will follow.
Gman commented:
As a resident of Phoenix I see this happen here locally way too many times. If they are illegal, I wonder how hard the media will try to ignore that fact?
Andreas K. commented:
If they’re illegal, it’s a shape of things to come. Stuff like this is happening in Europe on a daily basis. Agreed, they don’t kill the cops right away, but the attacks on police officers have skyrocketted in Germany and other EU countries, it’s not even remotely funny. The vast majority of the attacks are carried out by “immigrants”. No, no the Chinese or Vietnamese. No. But the mohammedans. The rest is done by the rabid left wing.
Ed commented:
My prayers go out to the officers involved. Frankly, this is why the police need RPGs. They should have fried the van. And to think that Bast@@d Calderon had the gall to bust on AZ and the US. I’d put him on the first plane back to Mexico right now.
Txn4Evr commented:
So President Douche Bag how about some border protection.
Keep it up asswipe you are about to get the revolution you fear!
gorgo commented:
[quote]So President Douche Bag how about some border protection.
Keep it up asswipe you are about to get the revolution you fear!
[/quote]
You mean the revolution he wants.
Georgeann King commented:
It didn’t happen in Memphis, but West Memphis, which is across the river in Arkansas and not Tennessee.
sdfsdfsdf commented:
Txn4Evr, keep the powder dry till after he’s kicked out of office.
Left Coast Conservative commented:
My the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Our prayers are with the families of the murdered policemen during this time.
Bob Grant commented:
Prayers to the fallen & their families.
If they turn out to be Mexican ILLEGALS will Felipe Calderon offer any genuine remorse or compensation to the families? Or will he try to justify the shooting by pointing a bony finger at America’s harsh police tactics directed at the “migrant Latino” community?
vbcvbcvb commented:
Bob Grant
May 20th, 2010 | 2:00 pm | #14
Prayers to the fallen & their families.
If they turn out to be Mexican ILLEGALS will Felipe Calderon offer any genuine remorse or compensation to the families? Or will he try to justify the shooting by pointing a bony finger at America’s harsh police tactics directed at the “migrant Latino” community?
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IF this was illegal aliens IT could be argued that this is the result of Obama and others lying about the laws and scaring people and inciting them to violence.
dirtmonkey commented:
It was Nashville that was hit the hardest by flooding. Memphis was spared.
Now, back on topic, I live in Memphis and, while a tragic event, this is not really that much of a shocker. It is common knowledge around here that I-40 is a major route for drug traffic coming up from Mexico headed to the eastern and northeast states.
My guess for this getting national attention is that it involves “people of hispanic origin.” We’ve had many other incidents where police officers were shot and/or killed yet they did not receive national attention like this.
Gee, do you think it could have any connection to the misguided and uninformed outcry over the AZ law that got the attention of the state run media?
So sick of the state run lap dogs and the hypocrisy that runs rampant nowadays.
edit for clarification: this started in Memphis, TN but then went across the river into West Memphis, AR where the shootout took place.
Mike M commented:
Will Calderon apologize for this illegal?
http://www.nwcn.com/news/Edmonds-rape-suspect-deported-4-times-94292944.html
Kevin commented:
If they are, or aren’t illegal aliens, the politicians won’t care about this story, since they can’t let this get in their way of their agenda of allowing more Mexicans in here illegally to get the cheap labor, and the cheap vote.
Bush, Carl Rove, McCain, and Grahamnesty had a back door meeting with LaRaza during the amnesty push a few years back. Is this what they meant that “they all come here to work?”
seven commented:
These are minor scoflaws on the way north to the crime sanctuary cities. Chicago and Detroit.
Let’s not be profiling.
Napolitano says to be afraid and very afraid of right wing granniestan extremists.
JKB commented:
If they do turn out to be illegal, it’ll probably be suppressed by the ICE since our wonderful Democrats in Congress were applauding a foreign head of state who criticized American rule of law regarding illegal aliens.
The head of ICE did say today that ICE might not necessarily act on suspected illegal aliens turned over to them by AZ police, i.e., a federal law enforcement agency won’t enforce laws in their jurisdiction.
fgdfgdgd commented:
Obama Lied , Police Died..
Kevin commented:
Pretty intense video as it happened by a WREG, Channel 3 TV camera crew in Memphis.
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-west-memphis-shot,0,192061.story
Kevin commented:
Looks like I’m too late, the video is already posted at the top of the page.
olm commented:
I have family along the drug routes in east Texas.
I don’t know what happened in this case but it is not just the borders that are battlefields.
DocScience commented:
Aren’t we all glad our idiot drug prohibition is making violent gangster murderers rich?
And we get widespread drug use at the same time.
And full prisons.
And corruption.
It’s the worst of everything. What a plan!!!
aprilnovember811 commented:
Of course their illegals.
mossomo commented:
Illegals!
Kevin commented:
Sorry Doc but it’s the idiots that want to break the law by selling highly toxic poison and kill people that get in their way that is making the worst of everything.
Mexico has legalized drugs and look what has happened down there, the drug cartel has all but declared war on the Mexican Government, chopping off heads of Judges, Politicians, Police Officers, Attorneys, and Journalist that speak out against them.
Talk about the worst of everything.
Mrgoodwench commented:
The cops acted stupidly
/ Obama
What a shameless hateful POS creep we have in the WH
ogee commented:
SECURE THE BORDER. COME HERE LEGALLY OR DON’T COME AT ALL. WE DON’T NEED MEXICO’S CRIMINALS. PROTECT THE CITIZENS.
Kevin P commented:
And the Fiddler-in-Chief is coddling the corrupt leader of Mexico as this happens.
And we’re the enemy???
DocScience commented:
Kevin,
If the US rescinded prohibition, the Mexican cartel would be broke, they sell the big bucks HERE, not in Mexico.
Tobacco, much harder and expensive to grow than ANY illegal plant, sells for $2/lb at the farm. Not the kind of money needed to maintain a terrorist criminal enterprise.
Our laws created the problem of drug gangs. And the original problem of drug abuse remains.
Patman commented:
My condolences… I am truly saddened.
Anyone trying to justify any of this on any level should be banned from this site.
Kevin P commented:
When I was in university – it would take 5 minutes MAX to get any illegal drug you desired. But it could take hours to score some alcohol if you were underage.
Peggy commented:
RIP to those killed in the line of duty. May their families find peace and consolation.
Exhibit #1 for border protection.
I know it’s not the time to be humourous, but I can’t help but note that if the suspects said “hiway farty” we’d know they were US natives–from STL Metro. [a local joke]
S. Wolf commented:
My condolences to the families of the officers.
And DocScience.. you make valid points but this isn’t the place.
Joanne commented:
These Mexicans have no problem shooting and killing police officers in the U.S., just like they have no problem shooting and killing Mexican police officers. If Mexicans are crossing the border into the U.S. illegally, they are criminals and should be treated as such. WTH is wrong with people these days.
You can’t expect the narcissists in the U.S. Congress or Senate to do anything about the illegal Mexicans until it affects their own miserable lives – narcissists are incapable of feeling empathy for others.
gus commented:
These 2 “immigrants” must have had their home forclosed recently.
And BTW, they were only being pulled over because of racial profiling.
Those Officer were probably asking for their PAPERS.
jonasay commented:
Boycott everything from Mexico, especially vacations. Spend our money in the Gulf Coast states instead of Mexico.
Who is for a national conservative boycott of Mexico?
Joanne commented:
#42 – now there is a good idea, except if the U.S. government doesn’t do anything about the border crossings, you’ll have even more Mexicans crossing into the U.S. looking for jobs.
noislamocommie commented:
Even Bush didn’t protect citizens..he held court with Fox spouting the same BS.Even Laura Bush brings up Irish Immigrants in the context of them being rejected at the time but the situation of today has little in common with yesteryear..
We need to elect hard-rt. wingers who speak boldly on this issue or we are lost.
Militant Conservative commented:
Couple of years ago my brother was in Colorado Wal mart parking lot and observed hispanics stealing from the vehicles and placing the items in their car. He held a rifle on them till officers arrived for the arrest. You’ll never hear of the crime stopped without firing a shot. If it bleeds it leads. Ambulance chaser journalism.
The thin blue line is going to have to get bigger and nastier to handle what is coming (We all lose freedoms) Or some of you out there can start to become part of the solution and quit relying on others for YOUR safety and protection. powder is dry.
gawntrail commented:
Many of the hard core Hispanic gangbangers aren’t Mexican illegals. Matter of fact, most of the Mexican gangbangers in LA (and wherever they’ve ‘franchised’ to) are 2nd and 3rd generation ‘chicanos’.
The real hardcore are Central American. El Salvadoran, Nicuraguan, Honduran, Guatamalan, etc. Those war torn cesspools have bred generations of sociopaths that have no human empathy. This in no way justifies, tries to apologize for, or mitigate the illegal immigration and/or drug problems.
I’m just trying to say, Yes, its the Mexican border and yes the Drug Cartels are mostly Mexican. But, the real problem ‘bangers are Central American muscle bringing Mexican product to the American market.
Again, not downplaying anything. Just making sure blinders don’t keep us from seeing the whole picture.
Chisum commented:
Here’s a picture of one of the suspects on the ground after the shootout.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/20/west-memphis-police-officer-killed-another-injured/
dfsdfsdf commented:
noislamocommie
May 20th, 2010 | 3:25 pm | #43
Even Bush didn’t protect citizens..
Neither did Clinton.. they are not in office anymore, get over it.. Obama is in office and needs to be held accountable, pointing to Bush does not make Obama’s crimes less and does nothing to fix the problems.
squeaky commented:
“Even Bush didn’t protect citizens..” you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. we’d be shortsighted to let the congresscritters who would put the security of
the country behind their own personal agendas
off the hook.
Jim commented:
This is a good reason to close the borders, but if the damndemocrats close the border, they will lose the drug dealer vote.
squeaky commented:
from somalia with not-so-much love. and right on thru mexico
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/unbelievable-houston-tv-uncovers.html
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
DocScience
May 20th, 2010 | 2:40 pm | #26
Aren’t we all glad our idiot drug prohibition is making violent gangster murderers rich?
And we get widespread drug use at the same time.
And full prisons.
And corruption.
It’s the worst of everything. What a plan!!!
Hey asshat! Go take a flying f*ck on a rolling donut.
Auntie Em commented:
The dead criminal looks really young. What a way to die. I am blaming Obama for this one.
bg commented:
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re: the picture..
OMG, and i hope not, but he looks
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younger than my 3 grandsons..
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jonyjoe101 commented:
re : The dead criminal looks really young. What a way to die. I am blaming Obama for this one.
To me that dead illegal looks good sleeping there on the ground. He’s enjoying himself. He thought the US police was going to “roll over” like the mexican police.
You shouldn’t feel any pity for the illegal, they are criminals. Unfortunately 2 police officers had to die, but they will learn and might have to do some unofficial racial profiling if they want to stay alive. You can’t win the war if you trust everyone.
jainphx commented:
The narcos are bragging that they will shoot to kill anyone that gets in the way, seems they weren’t just talking.
More are going to die, just how many depends on how hard we fight back at the regime in power. A standing ovation, for the illegal in chief, for slamming Arizona. Yes folks these are our worst enemies, only problem is they were elected by us.
Citzen Cue commented:
Singapore has a solution to drug traffickers, it’s called the death penalty. Singapore has mandatory death sentences for all drug traffickers. Since Asian is now in among the far left I’m sure the far left won’t mind if we go Asian in our dealing with drug traffickers for now on. START SENTENCING DRUG TRAFFICKERS TO DEATH WHEN CAUGHT! MODEL LAWS AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING WITH SINGAPORES ANTI-DRUG TRAFFICKING LAWS!
Listen up commented:
USA cities looking more like south of the border every day. Blood on the hands of those who support allowing more illegals in to our homeland.
Shame on the Dems for applauding slamming AZ.
Joanne commented:
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
NC Cop commented:
“Our laws created the problem of drug gangs. And the original problem of drug abuse remains.”
Hey genius, perhaps you didn’t know that Mexico DECRIMINALIZED small amounts (personal) of ALL drugs including cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and crystal meth and what did it get them? A violent drug war where police and innocents have been slaughtered.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1918725,00.html
So much for your theory. Perhaps a bit of research before you make such claims, eh?
American commented:
Wonder how this fits in Pelosi’s (stupid) “after the fact” drug enforcement plan?
Let the drugs in, she says, and treat any addicts later.
Do you think Ms. Pelosi can raise the dead and make these families whole?
May God Bless these brave men.
Our prayers to their families.
archer52 commented:
I agree with NC cop. I’ll argue and beat anyone on the issue of drug legalization. History is now teaching us that this is just another leftie theory that falls apart when applied to the real world. Much like universal healthcare, social welfare and wealth redistribution.
Legalizing drugs is like peeling an onion. The first layers are always the easiest and the least smelly, but it get only worse the farther down you go.
Here is part of the argument why it won’t work
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/06/08/peeling-the-onion-the-argument-over-legalizing-marijuana/
Another poster talks about who mans the gangs that get involved in such violence and he is right. The central American gangs are borne out of a violent society that has nothing to do with our bad drug habits up here.
The fact the shooters are Hispanics alone should mean only that they are Hispanics. Another comment was that most of the serious “bangers” in the Hispanic culture are second or third generation is correct. I’ve dealt with all kinds and meeting newly immigrated bangers isn’t very common in my area. Meeting career criminals from another country, in my case mostly Cubans, was a vastly more frequent occurrence.
These people were criminals from birth, some were even suspected as being sent by the government of Cuba to set up criminal organizations (some of the Mexican civil war involves them according to the rumors I heard).
The story will continue to unfold and I am sure the police will tell the truth, regardless of what Obama wants. He is only one person, messed up as his vision of the world is, and that Police Chief just lost his son.
I know exactly what he is going to say to any fed that wants him to cover this up.
USMC Thomas commented:
SOBama and Fhyllis Calderon agreed the officer’s acted stupidly and got what they deserved for racial profiling.
John Gargano commented:
Why isn’t this story on any national news outlets? Every time there is so much as a car chase in CA, its on every TV channel.
Here we have two innocent police officers murdered in the line of duty and nothing!
Every day police officers place themselves inbetween us and the bullets that are aimed at us and here two of them are dead, two injured and its not a national news story? Someone please explain this to me?
My sympathies go out to the families that will never see their loved ones again.
USMC Thomas commented:
The suspects appear to be members of a white supremacist church who were probably influenced, as will be reported in the MSM, by the inflammatory rhetoric of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.
Marsh commented:
Michelle Malkin – the much hated “race traitor” by the left – wrote an article in 2005 about the invasion of illegal alien gang members into our Washington D.C. area. I dismissed it at the time as anti-hispanic racism because I was still a hardcore leftist. Two years later my best friend was murdered by these same illegal alien gang members simply because he was white and his girlfriend was hispanic. They say that most conservatives are liberals that were mugged by reality. So true. I wish I would have heeded her warnings about illegal immigration before my friend was barbarically murdered by racist hispanic illegal aliens. How many more innocent Americans have to die before the pro illegal immigration leftists wake up?
AnnS commented:
Why nothing about illegals in the press; it figures this would make it in the news:
Shootout suspects’ van possibly linked to white supremacist church
Posted: May 20, 2010 9:44 PM CDT
Updated: May 20, 2010 9:44 PM CDT
NewsSyrupy oil washes into La. marshes for first timeSpecial Report: The night stalkersShootout suspects’ van possibly linked to white supremacist churchSuspects in police shooting killed in West Memphis shootoutMississippi executes 2nd inmate in as many daysNational intelligence director resigningBret Michaels hospitalized after `warning stroke’Senate clears way for financial regulation billWeather officials question info from engineersProtesters crash Karl Rove book-signing in Tenn.WEST MEMPHIS (WMC-TV) – An investigation of Ohio Public Records shows the van driven by suspects in the West Memphis shootout could be linked to a white supremacist group in Ohio.
New Vienna, Ohio was the home of the Jesus Christ Christian Church led by a self-proclaimed white supremacist. The Aryan Nation church and its leader Ray Redfairn made headlines 13 years ago.
The van involved in Thursday’s shooting was registered to the House of God’s Prayer at 143 West Main Street in New Vienna. Clinton County, Ohio records show the New Vienna property owned by the Universal Life of the Good Shepherd Church. It has an address 50 miles away in Middletown, Ohio.
Butler County records show the Middletown property owned by Hoge and Mary Tabor. A man named Hoge Tabor from Ohio is mentioned in a book about the Aryan Nation. Tabor told Action News 5 sister station WXIX-19 in Cincinnati on the phone that he owns the New Vienna property, but then hung up.
The van sat in a Walmart parking lot in West Memphis for the entire day and part of the night Thursday as officers continued to investigate the scene.
Copyright 2010 WMC-TV. All rights reserved.
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12518742
John commented:
“So much for your theory. Perhaps a bit of research before you make such claims, eh?”
Here’s your theory: We need to declare war on drugs. Only then will we get rid of them. We need to send all users and dealers to jail. We need to put on scary black uniforms and break into houses at 3AM and shoot the family pet. Only then will we end the drug problem in this country. We should spend billions on this war, and send billions overseas. If drug use goes down it is a great reason to increase funding for this war cause of course it’s due to the war. If use goes up well the war ain’t working so we need to increase funding for it. We also need to belittle those that don’t agree with the war, say they hate children and stuff. You like children don’t you you druggie wuggie? Here’s the best part, whenever doing a high profile bust, alert the media, put lots of cash on a table, and then mulitply the actual value of the drugs by 100 and call this the “street value”. This makes you look totally awesome. Once we do all that we will get rid of drugs. Who’s with us? We are tough guys, argh, our theories and job security depend on it!
NC Cop commented:
Wow, how immature, John!!! It seems you’re making fun of law enforcement. What’s wrong, did they turn you down for a job?
Apparently YOUR theory is being tested as we speak on the streets of Mexico. Hundreds dead or wounded in drug wars by powerful drug cartels that are challenging the government. But how cant his be, John? They have decriminalized drugs so doesn’t that take away all the reasons for the violence? At least in your theory it does.
If I have a choice between my theory and yours, I’ll take mine any day of the week. Since all you can do is mock other people, perhaps you can tell us what the answer is.
Please, do tell.
Terri commented:
the 2 people killed in the van are Jerry Kane and his son Joseph-16yo. Note the handcuffs on Jerry’s kid.
There is more for the story… that the media doesn’t want you to know.
Ray commented:
Yesterday, Calderon comes to our country and berates our nation. Obama then does exactly the same thing.
Obama is our home grown terrorist and he doesn’t need a gun to destroy our once great Nation. He is doing it with a printing press and by trying to undermine the laws that have protected the CITIZENS of this Country for years.
He is a racist, terrorist and a madman. It is time for a revolution in this Country. We must stand together now or be divided forever. Obama the liar and deceiver is destroying our nation.
Nhale commented:
Well, turns out the murders were good ol’ white boys from Ohio who were angry govt intrusions into their lives like…well… being required to have a valid drivers license. So much for illegal aliens.