Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos
Nocona, Texas – An officer responding to a domestic disturbance at a North Texas residence, shot and killed off-duty sheriff’s deputy Larry Hostetter, 41, shortly after midnight.
Montague County sheriff's deputy shot and killed overnight in Nocona. Texas Rangers investigating. @CBSDFW pic.twitter.com/mVAtCGI2G4
— Arezow Doost (@ArezowDoost) February 9, 2015
Police were tight-lipped about the incident other than to say that the Texas Rangers are leading the investigation.
In a news conference Monday morning, Sheriff Paul Cunningham said Hostetter was a good person, had been a law enforcement officer since 2000 and that being a sheriff’s deputy was everything to him, according to NBC 5.
Cunningham added that Hostetter, of Fredericksburg, was married and had three children.
“We just want to give our condolences and sympathies to everybody involved,” Cunningham said.
This is not the first time in recent weeks where we have seen that thin blue line injuring its own.
At the end of January, we reported on a Yonkers police officer who shot a suicidal officer from another precinct, claiming he feared for his safety.
Earlier in the January we also reported on an undercover Albuquerque police officer who was shot by another officer during a drug bust over $60 worth of meth. The media called it a “tragic accident” while, in reality, it was another example of police shooting someone who poses no threat to them.
In another tragic incident, John Ballard Gorman was shot and killed by fellow officer during a training exercise in Tunica, MS last month. The officer who shot Gorman failed to switch out his weapon for a training weapon and fired a real round into his fellow officer, killing him.
While 116 citizens have been killed at the hands of law enforcement thus far this year, the only shooting deaths of officers this year have all been attributed to fellow officers. Over the weekend in Dallas an officer was killed in a murder-suicide but the shooter has not been identified.
The recent chorus from cops, that blue lives matter seems to ring hollow, as it isn’t officers that are being gunned down in the streets on a daily basis by citizens.
Judging from the incidents that have transpired so far this year, it seems the greatest deadly threat to blue lives, is other blue lives.
Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, freethinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay’s work has previously been published on BenSwann.com and WeAreChange.org. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.
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Looks like this is the year where the cops eat their own.
Makes one feel so safe to be in sight of a American cop.
“Police were tight-lipped about the incident other than to say that the Texas Rangers are leading the investigation.”
If it hadn’t been a pig, there would be no investigation.
“Sheriff Paul Cunningham said Hostetter was a good person, had been a law enforcement officer since 2000…”
Oxymoron.
This is a trend I’d like to see escalate.
Unfortunately, most cops have flunked the intelligence test, however, it’s the mission statement that’s f^*ked up. Just like the bogus reason for our overseas escapades which have stolen a large portion of wealth, meanwhile, flag waving morons keep marching. Don’t get me wrong, I love my country, I just despise the communist takeover.
100% with you Millard. The flag they fly and wave is NOT the same flag we fly and for very different reasons. We fly ours for the love of our nation and they fly theirs for the love of money and all that is unholy.
Ditto Martist!