Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies are responsible for Saturday’s shooting, with no one but the shooter sitting in their patrol car. But the same cannot be said for the protesters who were admitted to the hospital where both are being treated, and “we hope they die.” The latter is a cultural poison that is nurtured by the left-wing anti-police movement spreading across the country.
Two deputies in the Compton neighborhood were “surrounded by gunmen in cowardly fashion,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva told a news conference. The deputies were not identified by name as of this writing, but press reports say one is a 31-year-old mother and the other a 24-year-old man. Both have been in the department for a little over a year.
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Police have not identified any suspects, but the ambush of the raid indicates that any available police are in search of a target. We’ve seen this before when anti-police fever is hot. Ferguson, Mo. And black suspects were arrested in New York after a gunman in New York shot and killed two officers in his car in 2014.
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Protests have worsened this year since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and anti-police violence is more widespread. An officer was stabbed in the neck in a surprise attack in June in a flatbush in New York City. The officer survived.
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