08-02-2015, 04:31 PM
TENNESSEE
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RIP Officer Sean Bolton
Memphis police took one person into custody today in connection with the shooting death of a police officer last night.
Officer Sean Bolton, 33, was shot multiple times during a traffic stop Saturday night by a person who was in the car he pulled over, police said. Bolton's killer fled, sparking an overnight manhunt, according to Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph.
Bolton, who joined the force in October 2010, was taken to hospital in critical condition. He later died. He is the third Memphis police officer killed in the past four years, Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said.
"It doesn't get any easier. This is a very difficult time, not only for me as director, but for all the officers you see standing behind me," he told reporters early Sunday morning.
"And (it's) a difficult time for our city as well. So I ask that you give us the respect that we need ... and the space that we need to grieve, and the time that we need to prepare to lay our brother to rest."
"We say so often ... do black lives matter? And at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves, do all lives matter -- regardless of race, creed, color, economic status, what profession that person holds? All lives matter," Armstrong said. <--He's got that right.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/02/us/memphis...ffic-stop/
RIP Officer Sean Bolton
Memphis police took one person into custody today in connection with the shooting death of a police officer last night.
Officer Sean Bolton, 33, was shot multiple times during a traffic stop Saturday night by a person who was in the car he pulled over, police said. Bolton's killer fled, sparking an overnight manhunt, according to Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph.
Bolton, who joined the force in October 2010, was taken to hospital in critical condition. He later died. He is the third Memphis police officer killed in the past four years, Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said.
"It doesn't get any easier. This is a very difficult time, not only for me as director, but for all the officers you see standing behind me," he told reporters early Sunday morning.
"And (it's) a difficult time for our city as well. So I ask that you give us the respect that we need ... and the space that we need to grieve, and the time that we need to prepare to lay our brother to rest."
"We say so often ... do black lives matter? And at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves, do all lives matter -- regardless of race, creed, color, economic status, what profession that person holds? All lives matter," Armstrong said. <--He's got that right.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/02/us/memphis...ffic-stop/