The Random Shooting Began Last Year

I came across this story. The video is from March of 2014.

And according to this report the police did nothing wrong. And that may be so. Or maybe not. But what attracted me and gave me the impetus to do a post was this comment from the link.

Antonio Venegas

I hate reading police brutality stories, especially when police don’t get charged with their crimes. I feel bad for the family, as probably the mother and daughter both wish that argument would have never happened. Karma & God will take care of the police and everyone involved in clearing them. I’ve seen it happen first hand. Recently in LA civilians started randomly shooting at police, it’s only a matter of time before gangsters, thugs and angry civilians start doing the same in other parts of the U.S.

That comment was published on December 30, 2014.

So he thinks we will be seeing more of this come warmer weather? I do too.

Well it looks like it is warm enough in California. From December 29, 2014:
Two Los Angeles police officers shot at in ‘unprovoked attack’

That may be the attack Mr. Venegas was referring to.

Police officer’s deaths from shooting are on the rise.

In the shooting deaths, so-called ambush attacks increased the most, from 5 last year to 15 this year. That number increased this month with the shootings of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who had been sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn when they were fatally struck. The gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who later shot himself in the head, had threatened police on social media before the random attack.

Ramos was buried last Saturday, and Liu’s funeral is Sunday.

Craig Floyd, CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit that produces the annual report, said a “growing anti-government sentiment” is to blame for influencing people to attack police.

“Growing anti-government sentiment”? Well who could have guessed that?