2 Cops shot dead in Hattiesburg, Mississippi


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HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Three people were arrested in connection with the murder of two police officers who were fatally shot Saturday evening during a traffic stop in the southern Mississippi city of Hattiesburg.

The incident prompted a statewide manhunt overnight, and led to a pair of brothers and a third suspect being arrested, authorities said.

In a statement, the Hattiesburg Police Department said an "extensive" manhunt led to the capture of three suspects in different locations. They were identified as Marvin Banks, 29, who has been charged with two counts of capital murder, one count of grand theft auto and one count of a felon in possession of a firearm; Joanie Calloway, 22, who has been charged with two counts of capital murder; and Curtis Banks, 26, has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.

 

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From left to right, Marvin Banks, Curtis Banks and Joanie Calloway - Hattiesburg Police Department

 

Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said a Hattiesburg officer had stopped a 2000 Gold Cadillac Escalade about 8:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, a second officer arrived to help him and shots were fired. Those were reported to be the first deaths on the Hattiesburg police force in three decades.

Strain told The Associated Press by phone early Sunday that the shooting occurred near an area of apartment houses and that officers told people immediately afterward to take shelter while they searched for two suspects.

Strain said both officers died of their injuries at a hospital.

He said the suspects had left the scene but didn't elaborate if they were stopped by police initially.

CBS affiliate WHLT in Hattiesburg reports the Banks brothers were taken into custody early Sunday morning. Marvin Banks was arrested at a motel around 1 a.m. Two hours later, Curtis Banks was reportedly taken into custody at an apartment complex.

Torsky Williams, a long-time Hattiesburg resident, told WHLT he was there as the shots rang out.

"I heard six or seven shots," Williams said. He said the situated escalated very quickly."

WHLT reports sources say one of the suspects attempted to leave the scene in an officer's patrol car. That car was abandoned near a railroad in Forrest County.

A Hattiesburg Police Department spokesman, Lt. Jon Traxler, told The AP the officers who died were 34-year-old Benjamin Deen and 25-year-old Liquori Tate. Local reports identified Deen as a past department "Officer of the Year" and Tate as a newcomer to the force.

Specifics of why the vehicle was stopped and why shooting broke out remained unclear, Strain said. Strain said he also didn't have further details of the officers' actions when the shots erupted.

He said the state's chief law enforcement agency, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, had taken up the probe of the shooting.

Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree told The Jackson Clarion-Ledger he lamented the deaths.

"The men and women who go out every day to protect us, the men and woman who go out every day to make sure that we're safe, they were turned on (Saturday) night," DuPree said outside Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, where the officers were taken.

The newspaper reported these are the first Hattiesburg officers to die in the line of duty in 30 years. It said Tate was a recent police academy graduate while Deen was a K-9 officer who had been honored as the department's "Officer of the Year" in 2012.

A call to DuPree's office for further comment wasn't returned early Sunday.

Hattiesburg resident Tamika Mills told The Clarion-Ledger that bystanders came upon the officers on the ground, and that one of them asked "... 'Am I dying? I know I'm dying. Just hand me my walkie-talkie.'" Mills told the paper, that seeing the officers down in the street was "shocking and heartbreaking."

 

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-cops-shot-dead-in-hattiesburg-mississippi-three-suspects-arrested/

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so when are the protests going to happen for that?

 

Trying to derail the topic already?  Bravo.

 

I cannot imagine what the family/friends and the Hattiesburg police are going through right now.  One of the cops, Officer Tate, had been on the force for less than a year.

 

Senseless murders.   :(

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Trying to derail the topic already?  Bravo.

 

Like it or not, there's a certain bias going on, and this is what this user was addressing.

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Trying to derail the topic already?  Bravo.

 

How is that derailing the topic ?  It is very much the topic lately.

Cop shoots blacks, blacks riot

Blacks shoot cops, cops are bad so its OK - even deserved

That has been the topic for several months, coming to a boil now.

You may want to empathize with everyone, but stats, facts speak for themselves.

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How is that derailing the topic ? It is very much the topic lately.

Cop shoots blacks, blacks riot

Blacks shoot cops, cops are bad so its OK - even deserved

That has been the topic for several months, coming to a boil now.

You may want to empathize with everyone, but stats, facts speak for themselves.

I couldn't agree more.

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How is that derailing the topic ?  It is very much the topic lately.

Cop shoots blacks, blacks riot

Blacks shoot cops, cops are bad so its OK - even deserved

That has been the topic for several months, coming to a boil now.

You may want to empathize with everyone, but stats, facts speak for themselves.

 

You can think that way, if you like.  Timster, apparently, succeeded in throwing this topic off track where 1 white and 1 black cop was senselessly murdered.  But yea, let us throw the "riot card" into the mix and forget about their sacrifice.

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You can think that way, if you like.  Timster, apparently, succeeded in throwing this topic off track where 1 white and 1 black cop was senselessly murdered.  But yea, let us throw the "riot card" into the mix and forget about their sacrifice.

 

 

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Original post removed. I'll just get called racist or some **** by the overly sensitive users of Neowin.

I already agreed with Enron that the topic had been derailed to much, but some users took it upon themselves to continue derailing.

I suggest if any one has an issue with any thing i said, take it up with me on PM or via my email listed in the profile.

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Can we stay on topic please? Two people are dead because of some criminals who will hopefully get what they deserve. It's good that the three are apprehended.

 

We don't need the derailing by going off topic talking about white cop killers, anti-white, or anti-police rhetoric and we don't need the derailing by talking about black cop killers or questions about why no one is protesting either.

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Can we stay on topic please? Two people are dead because of some criminals who will hopefully get what they deserve. It's good that the three are apprehended.

 

We don't need the derailing by going off topic talking about white cop killers, anti-white, or anti-police rhetoric and we don't need the derailing by talking about black cop killers or questions about why no one is protesting either.

 

Sorry Enron :(

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The issue is the systemic racism. Black people in America have fewer opportunities because of a) a lack of wealth (in part because of the legacy of slavery), b) a lower quality of education (schools in poorer areas produce worse results), c) a biased criminal justice system (more likely to be stopped and arrested; laws tend to be biased against black people), d) there being fewer employment prospects (evidence shows that 'black' names are more likely to be overlooked when considering applicants due to racism and negative stereotypes), e) the media, which plays on negative stereotypes (white people right after a sports event and it's harmless fun; black people riot after someone is murdered and they're simply violent people), f) poor parenting (the high incarceration rate means that many black children grow up in single-parent households with a lack of discipline).

 

Society is failing black people in America. People aren't born criminals - failings in society create them. In cases like this there should be a thorough analysis of what pushed these individuals towards crime, rather than just simply locking them away and pretending everything is fine. That's not to excuse these people

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The issue is the systemic racism. Black people in America have fewer opportunities because of a) a lack of wealth (in part because of the legacy of slavery), b) a lower quality of education (schools in poorer areas produce worse results), c) a biased criminal justice system (more likely to be stopped and arrested; laws tend to be biased against black people), d) there being fewer employment prospects (evidence shows that 'black' names are more likely to be overlooked when considering applicants due to racism and negative stereotypes), e) the media, which plays on negative stereotypes (white people right after a sports event and it's harmless fun; black people riot after someone is murdered and they're simply violent people), f) poor parenting (the high incarceration rate means that many black children grow up in single-parent households with a lack of discipline).

 

Society is failing black people in America. People aren't born criminals - failings in society create them. In cases like this there should be a thorough analysis of what pushed these individuals towards crime, rather than just simply locking them away and pretending everything is fine. That's not to excuse these people

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Cop shoots blacks, blacks riot

Blacks shoot cops, cops are bad so its OK - even deserved

 

 

You just summed up the whole situation.

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The issue is the systemic racism. Black people in America have fewer opportunities because of a) a lack of wealth (in part because of the legacy of slavery), b) a lower quality of education (schools in poorer areas produce worse results), c) a biased criminal justice system (more likely to be stopped and arrested; laws tend to be biased against black people), d) there being fewer employment prospects (evidence shows that 'black' names are more likely to be overlooked when considering applicants due to racism and negative stereotypes), e) the media, which plays on negative stereotypes (white people right after a sports event and it's harmless fun; black people riot after someone is murdered and they're simply violent people), f) poor parenting (the high incarceration rate means that many black children grow up in single-parent households with a lack of discipline).

 

Society is failing black people in America. People aren't born criminals - failings in society create them. In cases like this there should be a thorough analysis of what pushed these individuals towards crime, rather than just simply locking them away and pretending everything is fine. That's not to excuse these people

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so when are the protests going to happen for that?

 

Rather moronic statement to make isn't it? Those protests are about the shootings of unarmed citizens, some of which haven't even committed a crime, which has been happening for years, thankfully the spotlight is finally coming onto this with the advent of ordinary citizens having cameras in almost all devices, this happened all the time before but there was never any evidence to prove it.

 

The murder of these police officers is tragic and I feel for their friends and families but police officers know the risks in their job and tragedies like this are, sadly, a part of their vocation.

 

You trying to use their murder to make a point about citizens, who are merely standing up for their human rights, is quite abhorrent and offensive.

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