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-War on Police-

1 officer killed, 1 in 'grave critical condition' in Kissimmee shooting

2017-08-20

[NEWS4JAX] Two Kissimmee police officers were shot Friday night, one of them fatally, while they were responding to a suspicious person call in an area known for drug activity, according to Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell.
I'm sure that if Obama had a son he'd look like the guys who shot them.
Sgt. Sam Howard and Officer Matthew Baxter responded to Palmway and Cypress streets in Kissimmee at 9:27 p.m. and came into contact with four people, police said.

At 9:32 p.m., both men were shot, O'Dell said.

“It looked like they were surprised,” O'Dell said, adding that the officers did not return fire.

One of the officers was shot in the head at close range, a source told News 6. Both men were wearing their Kissimmee Police Department uniforms and body armor.

Suspected Florida Cop Killer Claimed To Be Member Of Black Extremist Group

[Daily Caller] The Florida man who allegedly ambushed and killed two Kissimmee coppers Friday night is a self-professed member of a black murderous Moslem group who appears to have been upset by last week’s events in Charlottesville, Va.

Everett Glenn Miller, 45, was locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
and charged with first degree murder in the killing of Officers Sam Howard and Matthew Baxter.

Miller, who goes by the name Malik Mohammad Ali on Facebook, allegedly ambushed and shot the officers as they were responding to a disturbance call.

Heavy.com adds five fast facts, but these are the key ones:

Mike DeForest, of News 5, reported that Miller was recently committed on a mental health evaluation. “Miller is a Marine veteran who was recently placed under the Baker Act by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office,” reported WFTV. That act allows for involuntary commitments of the mentally ill.

Miller served in the Marines from 1989 to 2010, according to The Orlando Sentinel.

Darren Hightower, a retired Army soldier and former Marine said that Miller served in Afghanistan and worked in military security.

Posted by:Fred

#7 If this is genuine mental illness, I want to know how he got out. Involuntary commitment to this does not compute.

It's not like the old days, Charles, where once one was committed he stayed until he was deemed cured. After the asylums were closed and the laws changed to reflect civil rights concerns during the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest era, a person can only be involuntarily committed if he is deemed an imminent threat to himself or others, which as a practical matter means he is in the process of attacking someone else or has just attempted suicide, and then only until he is stabilized -- a period generally defined by the states in the U.S. as 72 hours, though it can be as short as 24. In the case of the son of a friend of mine, who had florid paranoid schizophrenia (he thought the archangel Michael was communicating with him through his laptop, that his grandmother was a zombie who was poisoning his mother, and that as he was clearly sane there was no reason to take his meds), they were not able to get him committed for longer than 72 hours until he actually stuck a knife in Grandma's back and killed her. Upon which he was promptly arrested, sat in jail for four years awaiting trial, and finally was sentenced to 10-20 years less time served -- both the pleas "innocent by reason of insanity" and "guilty but insane" leading to the same sentence in the great state of Pennsylvania.

So the retired master sergeant was no doubt given a strong antipsychotic for a few days to treat his paranoia, given a prescription to hand to his local pharmacist and direction to follow up with his therapist, and sent on his way, because that's all the law allows and anyway there are half a dozen others who urgently need each of the thirty beds in the psychiatric ward of the regular hospital.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-20 20:39

#6 The liberals that ran the place Miller was released from were themselves mentally ill. they couldn't tell that Miller has a mental illness as they apparently thought it was a normal state of mind.

At least that's my thought on this matter.

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-20 17:43

#5 So he was COMMITTED, got out, got a gun, killed two police officers.

If this is genuine mental illness, I want to know how he got out. Involuntary commitment to this does not compute.

Posted by: Charles 2017-08-20 16:49

#4 Rather convenient, no?

Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-20 12:32

#3 In fact, all of Miller's Facebook posts are 'unavailable'.

A search of the name on Facebook no longer yields a hit for him, suggesting the his page was taken down.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-20 11:33

#2 2nd cop died. RIP

Posted by: Frank G 2017-08-20 10:56

#1 Interesting. This paragraph in the article:

Miller, who goes by the name Malik Mohammad Ali on Facebook, allegedly ambushed and shot the officers as they were responding to a disturbance call.

Is followed by this:

This Facebook post is no longer available. It may have been removed or the privacy settings of the post may have changed.

In fact, all of Miller's Facebook posts are 'unavailable'.

Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-20 08:09

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