Posted on 08/07/2012 10:30:17 AM PDT by Morgana
A police officer shot at least eight times in the neck and extremities outside the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis, waved off fellow officers attempting to rescue him and indicated they should assist others still inside.
Lt. Brian Murphy, 51, was shot Sunday and is now recovering in the hospital after a second surgery, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said. The 21-year veteran of the police force is expected to survive.
"[Murphy] received eight or nine gunshot wounds, to extremities and also to the cheek area and the neck," Edwards said. "He was in very close proximity to the shooter. When he arrived, he came upon someone who was injured, and he was going to assist that individual when the shooter came around him, close to his squad, and hit him at a close distance."
The officer was wearing a bullet proof vest, Edwards said.
After gunman Wade Page was shot and killed by other officers, they moved to rescue Murphy. But when they located him, Murphy indicated that rather than help him they should enter the temple to assist any other victims.
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Wow what a hero someone should alert the DBM,or they will never know.
I read somewhere He was also a Veteran, not sure if that is correct.
Sorry did not read that, Michale Savage said it yesterday.
I’m wondering if somebody can answer something for me.
Almost every story I’ve seen has led off with the statement this guy was an Army veteran, as if this is the most relevant fact about him, or the most important in explaining the motive, or as if he just got out last week.
Yet he has been out of the Army for 15 years or so, and surely his life since is more relevant to the shootings.
Why do they do this? Is it only because it’s one of the few pieces of information about the guy they have?
“Why do they do this?”
The libtard media does this for a very simple reason... they hate the military. They hate what it stands for. They hate patriotism. They hate the idea that men and women serve their Country. So, whether the shooter got out of the military last week or thirty years ago is relevant to them because the “military” is filled with patriotic people just waiting to do an atrocity. It is disgusting, isn’t it?!
Very strange. If I did something like this, it would seem very odd if every story about me led off by mentioning a job I had 15 years ago.
Where do we find men such as these?
They are all around us but since they don't brag they go quietly about their business.
They are veterans who have been to see the tiger and did not shirk.
Regards,
GtG
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