Here's the Officer Memorial Page with more details concerning his death:

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=18945

thats a sad story life is cruel sometimes.

You know, I think it should be required here to post why you downvote something, qualm.

I agree how can u downvote this?

too sad to upvote?

"You know, I think it should be required here to post why you downvote something, qualm."

Required? Oh, really...

Should just qualm be required to offer explanation or should this requirement be imposed upon everyone? Is it only when certain types of sifts eg. patriotic, war-porn sifts, etc. are downvoted, that qualm, and possibly others, are required to explain themselves?

Will there be coffee at the tribunal?

Downvote in solidarity with qualm. I would have just ignored this video (like i ignored the other 2387293829 tragedies that happened today) but I didn't like the atmosphere of kneejerk groupthink on this thread.

Well, I do think that this video should be seen by all of those people who rail against the police at every video that shows officers that seem to be too aggressive, when they are usually just being protective or following procedures to make sure that they don't get killed.

Yeah, there's some bad apples in the barrel, I'll not argue that and they should be watchdogged, but for the most part, cops are just regular people trying to protect others. This poor kid got shot on a call for a domestic disturbance! That's someone else's problems that he put himself on the line for and it ended in tragedy.

So when your job involves the possibility of you getting killed every day, then you can feel free to bitch about them.

thats my future line of work

I live in Metairie and at the library I work at the parish had flags at half mast for a couple weeks for the slain deputy. Everyone kept asking what the flags were at half mast for. No one knew about the guy getting shot. Sad.

Kinda suprised me to see this video here.

This sucks.

Sketch, your post reveals a remarkable lack of awareness. You seem to insist that only people who's jobs put them in peril have a right to ask questions about police and policing. This view of yours - of human rights, and civil rights, sees these rights more as privileges that are granted by state power only to the obsequious and those who's job brings them beneath its umbrella eg. police, military, etc. In other words, to those least likely to ask questions dangerous to power. Your sort of perspective is very comfortable and welcomed in totalitarian police states. Setting the obvious fallacy of your position aside--of course certain social factors tend to determine a person's views on policing; one's economic status or the colour of one's skin are two good examples.