Examiner – by Peter TrapassoState trooper shot in Mason County, Michigan, was killed in a routine traffic stop Monday night. Paul Butterfield, 43, was shot in the head and died during emergency surgery in hospital. According to ABC News on Sept. 10, 2013, Butterfield provided information moments before the shooting that lead to the apprehension of the suspect.
State police Lt. Chris McIntire said Trooper Paul Butterfield provided location and vehicle information to a dispatcher before he was shot Monday evening in Mason County.
State trooper shot stopped a vehicle in Sherman Township. Moments later a 911 call was placed reporting that a trooper had been shot in the head. A vehicle matching the description made by the trooper before he was shot was found about 15 miles away. Two suspects, a man and a woman, were caught at a gas station in Wellston after a shootout with police. The man was injured and taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life threatening.
In honor of the State trooper shot, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder ordered flags lowered to half-mast starting today through Butterfield’s funeral. The officer followed protocol, which contributed, to the quick apprehension of the two suspects.
http://www.examiner.com/article/state-trooper-shot-officer-shot-head-during-routine-traffic-stop
I think this is going to be so more common place as fugitives are going to realise that their one hope of escape is to use extreme force and bearing in mind that police are shooting innocent people all the time with impunity has upped the game considerably.
Could this be the start of war on the streets?
i would refuse to lower my flag for this cop
We took ours down when o was elected the first time and won’t go back up until the sheit is straightend out. (The only other neighbor on our block that flew a flag, took his down shortly after, wom)
We have flown the Gadsden Flag a few times since though, when it fit the occasion.
Don’t you fly it upside down to signify failure?
If I remember right, stringing two black balls (have fun with that one folks) above or with a flag shows the vessel is out of control hence where the slang term “An almighty ball’s up” meaning total fubar with a capital foo.
10 bonus points for the most comical pun on the above mention of black balls… 😀
Must be a British expression, AG. Never heard it before.
It was from originally the Royal Navy which the US Navy copied their rules nearly verbatim until it was standardised by international convention so if you see a ship flying two big black balls from the highest mast, its not under control or is suffering an emergency.
The RN took it further as you can envisage two black balls hanging from the tip of a mast and it was then turned into the phrase “a cock up” due to it looking a bit like male organs (sad I know)
As for the upside down flag, it is a very much an American thing as an upside down American flag denotes: “a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property” as does a US flag with a yellow frill denotes the US is at war which you will notice Clinton used a flag without the frill and Bush used the flag with, all interesting stuff 😀
Damn, if this kind of article doesn’t brighten my day every time I come across one. Kudos to the shooter. Good job!
(still can’t believe they didn’t kill him 10 times over in a hail of gunfire).
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teen-pregnant-wife-charged-killing-michigan-state-trooper-traffic-stop-authorities-article-1.1453524
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2013/09/eric_knysz_having_more_surgery.html
“His father, John Knysz — a former police officer from the Chicago area — said he was heartbroken to hear his son was the suspected shooter.”
I’m bettin’ he was an abusive father, and the cop that pulled his son over probably looked a lot like him.
They can try to sell that good cop bullsh#t all they want to.
I ain’t buyin’.
Thanks, Angel. :-). That was much more info than this article had.
Yes, they’re playing for cop sympathy.
“Eric Knysz was shot when police officers approached him near the Dublin party store. Knysz allegedly pointed a gun at a state trooper, at which point Knysz was shot.”
Why the hell did he point a gun at a cop and NOT pull the trigger? He’d already killed one, he may as well have added to the tally at that point.
Two or three life without parole sentences are as good as just one, right?
I remember back in the 1980’s, 1981 when I first met HM Metropolitan Police Force, they cruised past me a couple times in their Transit van and me not being in bother didn’t think anything of it until they grabbed me from behind, didn’t even give me a d’ya mind, slung me in the back of the van and kicked seven bells out of me, for which reason I know not. We used to call it the “tunnel of love” being splayed across the van floor and 10 pairs of steel toe caps playing a ditty on your face wasn’t fun.
And so the next seven years saw an escalating war between London’s youth and police and after the Brixton riots (provoked by the police kicking a black man to death in the cells and causing another respected black lady to die from a heart attack), we non Blacks really took the brunt as the plod had no one to bully or pick on to make them think of other things than their tiny dicks but boy did we give them hell back, for me it ended in 1991 when one freshly minted just out of the Marines was stopped by an old hand who thought he knew me ended up in an ambulance, 53 officers went for an early shower that night until they had to physically break my wrists to stop me hitting people (I’m half Irish half Scots and I can seriously relate to a berserker rage from that night), I came out of the army with Judo, plenty of Karate and was also one of the few instructors in Russian Sambo which is an evil martial art with plenty of emphasis on attacking ones opponents happy sacks and fighting dirty. Didn’t get charged for one offence that night, the police were too damned frightened of the press especially when ones mother was a very high placed Fleet St editor and journalist at that point but they never provoked it again making the moral of the story is to stand your ground but pick the right ground first… Don’t get me wrong as they got me back in the end, stitched me up on a drunk in charge but the rubber truncheons were replaced with politeness which is how I always addressed an old bill.
Its quite amusing that I had in the 1980’s two television programmes made about me, one was a Channel 4 documentary about how much of a horrible hooligan I was, always fighting the police and being a right rebel and the other was a drama called “Made in Britain” starring a very young Tim Roth playing you guessed it, a horrible hooligan always fighting the police and being a right rebel hehe
Sounds like you’ve had quite a colorful past there, AG.
Also sounds like you’re someone no sane person would want to piss off.
Dang. That’s real close to home….not for me but for my relatives. I keep trying to warn them but they mostly think I’m crazy…lol.