Posted on 09/18/2007 1:35:07 PM PDT by yorkie
A Phoenix police officer shot in central Phoenix this morning has died.
The officer was pronounced dead at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital.
The suspect who shot the officer fled the scene near 24th Street and Thomas in a stolen car, but was located by police around 9:30 a.m.
The suspect was apparently armed and had a hostage when crews located his stolen vehicle near 24th Avenue and McDowell.
When the suspect threatened officers as they tried to arrest him, he was shot and killed.
The original officer-involved shooting that prompted this second incident happened around 8:30 a.m.
Police stopped one man and two women trying to jaywalk across 24th Street near Thomas.
The officer and one of the jaywalkers, a man identifying himself as 24-year-old Anthony Sanchez, got into an argument.
Sanchez then pulled out a gun, and fired at the officer, according to police.
He fled the scene and stole a gold Dodge Stratus on 24th Street, before he was shot and killed.
Stay with ABC15.com and ABC15-TV for updates.
in before immigrant slander.
Saving our legal system the trouble...
Justice. The fellow cops knew what to do.
Sanchez, huh?
Prayer for the officer’s family.
Glad that they took care of the problem without the need for a trial.
The officer’s name has not been released at this time.
Not *immigrant* but *illegal* and you’d be closer. And it’s not slander. The guy was guilty. No one made up his actions or his name.
I don’t know anyone who’s opposed to immigrants- legal.
Deliberately blurring the lines to make others look racist ends up with IBTZ.
Oh, puhleeze. Deliberately highlighting any and every news story that contains a latin name is paranoia.
Wonder how many evil things were done by natives today...
That's exactly what's going on.
The majority of violent crime in Phoenix is perpetrated by illegal aliens. Ask any cop.
It is a problem that must be addressed, not averted by playing liberal PC games.
Hey - you can't be a real American unless you paint all Latinos with a broad brush!
He ain't the only one who paints with a broad brush, apparently.
Sanchez is a latin name? Guess again.
That's a confused comment.
THIS is a confused comment.
Anthony Sanchez, huh?
Flame away, but this is NOT a racial comment, it is a comment about a statistic.
Then what excuse will the harpies use?
From the article:
The Arizona Republic has learned that Sanchez has had many run ins with the law. Over the years he has faced a series of criminal charges, ranging from cockfighting to drug possession to theft.
A real winner.
What excuse would be needed? We don't automatically assume anything, based on last names.
This officer never had a chance. The perp probably drew and fired in less than a second. Very sad.
The shooter then found an occupied vehicle with an open passenger door and hijacked the vehicle. (A failure to lock one's doors.) Had the doors been locked, only a rare driver would know how to respond to such a hijacking attempt. Arizona needs Louisiana(?)-like make-my-day laws just for such a situation. As it stands, drawing one's weapon without knowing whether the perp is armed, would orobably result in a brandishing charge.
I have no idea where you live, but the fact is we have a huge problem with lawless illegal aliens.
Perhaps the fact that the media does it's utmost to keep us from seeing the real picture does cause the general population to assume that in most cases the hispanic in question is illegal.
Before you go calling me a racist, I will tell you that I spent much of my childhood in Mexico and love the Mexican people and culture.
But I don't want illegal/criminal aliens in the US. I don't care if they are Swedish, Russian or Australian.
If they come here legally and obey the law, they are welcome.
Sheesh...so true.
Such speculating may not fair, but it is understandable given the growing problem of imported lawlessness.
At least it is to those who believe it is a growing problem.
Police say the officers then did a record check on the three - a man and two women - and found that Anthony Sanchez, 24, had a misdemeanor warrant for his arrest for shoplifting in Tucson.
Sanchez has had many run-ins with the law. Over the years he has faced a series of criminal charges, ranging from cockfighting to drug possession to theft.
When the officers tried to arrest Sanchez, he pulled out a handgun and fired several shots according to police reports.
One officer was fatally wounded. His partner was not hit and chased the suspect south on 24th Street but could not return fire because there was too much traffic.
Police say Sanchez then ran to a nearby parking lot at 24th Street and Thomas Road and carjacked a beige sedan at gunpoint.
The driver of that car remained behind the wheel while Sanchez sat in the passenger seat.
Witnesses were able to give police a description of the vehicle and a license plate.
One hour later an unmarked Special Assignments Unit officer spotted a car and suspect matching Sanchez's description.
They began surveillance of the car and managed to box it in at 27th Avenue and McDowell Road.
Police say the suspect then pointed his gun at the hostage. An officer then shot and killed Sanchez. The driver of the sedan was not injured.
By that time, the wounded officer had been rushed to Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, but he could not be saved.
Over a jay walking incident????? What a short fuze. How DO you explain that someone’s husband and father is dead because of a jay walking incident??? What a waste.
Anthony is Italian, sort of . . . does that count for anything?
Yes it is
Assume that illegals comprise 50% of the people with outstanding warrants in this jurisdiction, making the probability that the shooter is an illegal 50%. Under what circumstances (or at what percentage) does a knee-jerk reaction become "understandable?"
No it's not. It's an unfortunate reality that people with names common to south American countries (often called Latin America) are most often associated with the illegal alien invasion that is also the cause of a crime wave of epidemic proportions sweeping southern states in this country.
Just pick up any newspaper from those states and look at the names of those who get caught committing the crimes. 9 times out of 10 they are also illegal aliens.
Calling these people "immigrants" instead of what they really are- "illegal aliens"- is indeed "blurring the lines" in order to draw attention away from the facts and create a environment in which the "racism" card can be played by those who sympathize with the wave of illegal aliens entering this country for whatever reason, and wish to downplay the culture of crime that comes along with them.
After all, everyone knows these are just peaceful poor illegal Aliens who just want to come to America to clean toilets and work for peanuts on vegetable farms, only evil ugly Americans commit crimes, right?
This started because of jaywalking?
Wow. In Chicago they’d have to call out the National Guard.
I am a blue eyed white guy.
Almost 100% of the Hispanics that I have met are good people. All races have their losers. The Hispanics that I have met are hard working and they left their own lands to come here for opportunity. Just like my ancestors.
That said, those here illegally need to go home and get in line like the rest of the world.
Its understandable to anyone who knows anything about human nature, or cares to acknowlege its natural tendencies.
That may or may not include you, I dunno.
I count myself as more rational than emotional.
Many of those names have evolved from the colonizers of the place however. (I wonder who that could be? /s) This is another case of "blurred lines". "Siquidem avis invenit domum et passer nidum sibi ubi ponat pullos suos altaria tua Domine exercituum rex meus et Deus meus"
Of course thats true. Still, that there is a problem with imported lawlessness cannot be denied.
People need to vent their frustration at the lawbreakers, not those noticing the problem.
Thats great.
A man and two women were jay-walking. The officer asked them for identification, and found there was a warrant out for the male subject. When the officer tried to arrest the subject, a fight ensued, and the officer was shot. The subject then stole a vehicle, and took a hostage.
He was blocked in by police vehicles, and shot. The hostage is safe. The two women who were with the subject are being detained and questioned.
The deceased officer comes from a very large extended family, and his name will not be released until all family members have been notified.
This is a much bigger story than we are aware at this time.
I would have guessed it to be a Spanish name. Soprano I would think is a Latin name.
When I see comments like yours I go to the home page of the person that made the comment. Most of the time I find that the commentator is from a state far from the SW border. Being so far away from the border, you don’t have to deal with the problem of illegal immigration every day like those on the border. I’m quite sure if you were being assaulted by illegal aliens from Mexico every day you would have a different perspective.
Everyone on the planet is an immigrant at one time or another. I don't buy into the "we are all immigrants" B.S. those who defend the illegal aliens propagate. They like to ignore who and what made this country and it's laws, and start the calender of immigration at a point of history more convenient to their talking points in order to guilt Americans into sympathy.
You shouldn't get sucked into that way of thinking either, even if your ancestors came at a later time. Law and order created by our early ancestral nation builders is what made this country, abandoning these foundational laws will certainly destroy it.
“This is a much bigger story than we are aware at this time.”
Yeah, figured that the jaywalking part was just Step 1.
There we go! We have a winner! :o)
The officer’s name was Nick Eafle. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
So knee-jerk reactions get a pass if you live in a border state?
The officer’s name was Nick Eafle. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
In the population study of a sample of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. Nearly all had more than 1 arrest. Thirty-eight percent (about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests, 32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and 26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests. Most of the arrests occurred after 1990.
They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses than arrests. Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense. Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.
Eighty percent of all arrests occurred in three states — California, Texas, and Arizona. Specifically, about 58 percent of all arrests occurred in California, 14 percent in Texas, and 8 percent in Arizona.
Can you post a link to this report? It would be interesting reading.
I saw something that indicated Sanchez was NOT his real name.
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