Last night was a very tragic night for everyone in law enforcement. DeKalb Co. (GA) PD officers Ricky Bryant, Jr. 26, and Eric Barker 33, were working an off-duty job at a high-crime apartment complex in the county. They were in their POVs, but they were in uniform. DKPD Chief Bolton is being mum about the investigation, but all accounts indicate both officers were ambushed and shot in the head.

“They had no chance,” quoting Chief Bolton. From Officer.com:

Patreka Anderson, a resident of the complex, said she was awakened by the gunshots but did not think anything of it because the neighborhood around the Glenwood Gardens apartment complex is a high-crime area with a lot of drug activity and prostitution.

“We always hear shooting,” she said. “I didn’t think that was any big deal.”

Teofil Taut, who said he has owned the 176-unit complex for about two years and lives in one of the buildings, said he hired police as part-time security officers in December to keep homeless people from breaking into the apartments.

Another resident, nurse’s assistant LaShawn Corbin, said she is considering moving, even if it means paying more for an apartment.

“We don’t expect the people who try to protect us to be hurt so seriously,” she said. Corbin said she would fear leaving her children there “because the person who did it has no conscience for human life.”

No conscience for a human life. Very well said. It takes hideously inhumane cowards to ambush cops to achieve whatever purposes they may have. I have no sympathy for these bastards, and I hope they want to go out “in a blaze of glory.” The glory will not go to you, you pussies. You deserve nothing but immediate death. You owe that to the two widows and eight children you’ve left fatherless. Punk-ass bitches. That’s what you are.

(Sorry for being so raw, but this hurts deeply.)

The earliest beliefs were that there were two suspects, but now there’s a possibility that there were up to 4. The reward as of this writing is at $55,000, but the Chief (and other LEOs) know that won’t help. Folks who live in projects like this very rarely “talk” about anything to which they might be a witness. But as Chief Bolton said, as he encouraged folks to come forward, stating that “today you are not my brother.” Chief knows who his brothers are, and they are the ones wearing blue.

Hey, Step… I know Ricky and Eric are already with you. Please give them the grand tour of heaven, and welcome them into the guard. Love you and miss you, brother, but you’ve got some more backup now when you need it. I miss you, Dennis Stepnowski… I really do, but I’m glad you’re there to be their welcoming committee at the gates of heaven.

Rest in peace, Officers Bryant and Barker. Rest in peace.

I’ve got local news reaction here, here and here.

Watch this moving tribute to fallen Polk Co. FL Deputy Matt Williams and his K9 partner, Diogi.

Following is a link to a beautiful flash presentation of the memorial, and a link to all the police dispatch traffic surrounding the event.

Tribute here, dispatch audio here.

It’s not how deputy Williams and K9 Diogi died that made them heroes; it’s how they lived.

h/t to Cao for this, although I’ve been trying to find a way to do this without breaking down and going all Rambo literary style on this scumbag. Since my fingers won’t allow anything but fire to come out over this asshole, I’m going to just show you Cao’s words. You don’t want to see or read mine. FCC censors don’t apply here, but my mind swirls with evil thoughts of vengeance on this one.

From my friend Cao’s blog posting:

Ralph “Bucky” Phillips, is a native american, who escaped from the Alden Correctional Facility in Erie County, NY last April. Since his escape, Phillips has stolen food, clothes, weapons, ammunition and vehicles from unattended homes and hunting cabins in western New York. He has received assistance from family and friends in rural Chautauqua County, NY where he is currently believed to be in hiding. He has also shot 3 police officers, including one NY State Trooper who died yesterday. There is a $225,000 reward for information leading to PHILLIPS’ arrest.

What you can do:

- Most importantly, we ask that anyone who has any knowledge of the location of PHILLIPS to contact any barracks of the NY State Police and immediately report this information. We do not want to lose any more of our heroes.

- If you live or work in the northwestern Pennsylvania or western New York area, please print and prominently post the WANTED poster (PDF file) from this link.

Please keep the police officers in your thoughts and prayers. Any cards, letters and well wishes you would like to extend to the family of Trooper Longobardo (deceased) and to Trooper Baker and his family can be sent to:

New York State Police, Troop A,
Fredonia Barracks
10274 Route 60
Fredonia, NY 14063

Ralph “Bucky” PHILLIPS is a Native American and is reported to be part of the “Six Nations” Tribe who are also the protesters at Caledonia, Ontario Canada. Click HERE to learn more about the problems and threats to our national security.

These guys in Canada are protesting and occupying the land at a partially-built housing project in Caledonia since February. They claim the land was wrongfully taken from them over 200 years ago.

Since that wanted poster pretty much sucks, here are a couple of other images of Bucky.

Phillips is suspected of shooting Trooper Sean Brown near Elmira in southern New York this past June, and police said he has survived on the run by stealing about 15 vehicles and breaking into hunting camps and a gun shop.

Some in rural western New York had viewed the manhunt with amusement, but that changed after Thursday’s shootings.

“There has been a marked difference in the cooperation that we are receiving,” Bennett said.

Authorities say Phillips’ disdain for police was well known. He once allegedly left officials a note threatening “to splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County.”

But state police said the threat now extended to the public.

“Clearly now, there can be no discussion about the fact that he is a dangerous person,” Bennett said, “and he’s a risk to everybody, law enforcement and non-law enforcement alike.”

At the state police barracks in Fredonia, Trooper Mark O’Donnell said Longobardo’s death did not change the way they viewed their mission to catch Phillips.

“You can’t be more determined,” O’Donnell said. “We were determined from the day he shot Sean Brown.”

About 100 state troopers attended a service for Longobardo on Sunday evening.

Damn…. just damn. Thank you, Cao, for doing this. I have been trying to for the past few days, and all I can manage to force out of my fingertips onto the keyboard is not very nice. Thanks for the voice of sanity for properly framing this. I will continue, however, to have my own “fantasy” of what I’d like to happen to Mr. Bucky. And, boy is it a satisfying one; not to Bucky, of course, but it damn sure is to me.

Please, if you’re in the northeast or wherever, Google this pond-scum’s name and get as many pictures as you can about him. If you see him, please alert authorities ASAP. This maggot needs to be UNDER the jail.

Go read Cao’s excellent post to read the whole thing with references. I have to go take a blood pressure pill now.