Almost two weeks have passed since the shooting of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and police continue to stall the release of video from officer body cameras as well as the Triple S Food Mart surveillance cameras, the latter which they seized without a warrant.
Mark Hughes is either the unluckiest man in the world or the luckiest, depending on how you look at it.
Unlucky in that we was singled out by the Dallas Police Association as a suspect in Thursday night’s sniper shootings that so far has left five police officers dead and seven wounded, his picture tweeted out to tens of thousands of people in the country, a man considered armed and dangerous.
A man who could have easily been shot and killed by police during their frantic search for a gunman or by anybody else for that matter considering Texas is a very gun-friendly state.
Eye witness video captured a police officer in downtown Dallas being shot in the back
The video was aired on CNN with an interview of the witness who recorded a downtown Dallas area police officer being shot by an assailant at point blank range from long distance.
Contrary to initial reports, this attack was not carried out by a sniper.
There appeared to be an incendiary device explosion towards the end of the video of unknown origin.
Over a dozen Dallas Police officers surrounded and arrested one of the alleged two snipers suspected of killing and wounding ten cops at a peaceful protest.
The live apprehension was broadcast on local TV news live, as you can see in the clip below.
Bystanders cheered.
Dallas Police Chief David O’Neal Brown released a statement minutes before the arrest, saying that three of his police officers have died tonight, two are in surgery and three others are in critical condition after being shot by snipers at a protest/rally tonight.
An award-winning Florida sheriff’s deputy was suspended for treating nearly a dozen inmates inhumanely while transporting them in a van last year.
However, it was just over two years ago that St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputy Johnny Hubbard received a departmental award along with several other deputies, describing them as “extremely professional and extraordinary individuals” who deserve to be “recognized for their day-to-day dedication to their duties.”
