Memphis police officer fatally shot during traffic stop

[RV ME]

Imagine sitting in your office writing a report when, without warning, you are shot multiple times and left to die.  In the last several days I have read on several other threads about police officers not seeing people as human, or feeling that they are above the law.  These descriptions are not mutually exclusive to law enforcement, as they also describe many of the criminals the police have to deal with on a regular basis.

 

Office Bolton, 5 year veteran and former Marine, was white.  If it turns out that the POS that murdered Officer Bolton was not white, will I hear a call of a hate crime from those who regularly bash the police hear on DV?  Doubt it, as it seems hating the police is an acceptable hate crime to some.

 

RIP Sean Bolton, my prayers for you and your family.  RV ME

 

 

MEMPHIS, Tenn. --

A manhunt continued Sunday following the fatal shooting of a Memphis police officer who was killed the previous night during a traffic stop, Tennessee police officials said.

Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said during a news conference that police were alerted about 9:18 p.m. Saturday that an officer had been shot multiple times. Armstrong said the officer was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.

In a statement Sunday morning, Memphis Police identified the slain officer as Sean Bolton, 33. Police also said that a civilian had used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting. No further details were released.

Armstrong said police have not made an arrest and the suspect is on the run. He said police are using all available resources to find the shooter.

Armstrong said officers are grieving, adding that "this is just a reminder of how dangerous" the job is.

"Sadly to say, we've been here before," he said.

Bolton is the third Memphis officer to be fatally shot in slightly more than four years. Officer Tim Warren was killed while responding to a shooting at a downtown Memphis hotel in July 2011. In December 2012, Officer Martoiya Lang was killed while serving a warrant.

Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton Jr. said Bolton's death "speaks volumes about the inherent danger of police work" and asked others to "pray for the family and pray for our city."

"The men and women in blue have certain rules of engagement that they have to follow, but at any given minute in a 24-hour day they're dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement."

 

http://6abc.com/news/memphis-police-officer-fatally-shot-during-traffic-stop/898429/

 

[Markinsa]

"The men and women in blue have certain rules of engagement that they have to follow, but at any given minute in a 24-hour day they're dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement."

 

That's it in a nutshell. My prayers are with this Officer's family.

 

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[MyLadiesDaddy]

I've never really understood what was meant by the phrase,

 

"The President's bully pulpit"  

 

Until Obama entered into his second term. 

 

The Prez sets the tone for everything. That's what it means, and that is 

 

exactly why all of this is happening. You don't yell,"fire", in a crowded 

 

​theater and expect no one to get hurt. And you don't spend yrs calling 

 

everyone who's not black a racist and expect people to act the same as

 

always. And for a little clarification let me show everyone what Obama

 

said about a real racist,

 

 <iframe width="854" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZKSm8xUf1go" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

​So who created this organization and what was her views of blacks?

 

 

 

GROSSU: Margaret Sanger, racist eugenicist extraordinaire

The founder of Planned Parenthood would have considered many Americans unworthy of life

 

By Arina Grossu - - Monday, May 5, 2014

Recent articles have reported on an unearthed video from 1947 ofMargaret Sanger demanding “no more babies” for 10 years in developing countries. A couple of years ago, Margaret Sanger was named one of Time magazine’s “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time.” Given her enduring influence, it’s worth considering what the woman who founded Planned Parenthood contributed to the eugenics movement.

Sanger shaped the eugenics movement in America and beyond in the 1930s and 1940s. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”

 

She even presented at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1926 in Silver Lake, N.J. She recounted this event in her autobiography: “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses … I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered” (Margaret Sanger, “An Autobiography,” Page 366). That she generated enthusiasm among some of America’s leading racists says something about the content and tone of her remarks.

In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the ***** population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘***** Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939).

Her own words and television appearances leave no room for parsing. For example, she wrote many articles about eugenics in the journal she founded in 1917, the Birth Control Review. Her articles included “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics” (June 1920), “The Eugenic Conscience” (February 1921), “The Purpose of Eugenics” (December 1924), “Birth Control and Positive Eugenics” (July 1925) and “Birth Control: The True Eugenics” (August 1928), to name a few.

The following are some of her more telling quotes:

“While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit. They are excellent means of meeting a certain phase of the situation, but I believe in regard to these, as in regard to other eugenic means, that they do not go to the bottom of the matter.” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review).

“Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review).

“Stop our national habit of human waste.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 6).

“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 7).

“The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” (“A Plan for Peace,” 1932).

In a 1957 interview with Mike Wallace, Sanger revealed: “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world — that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin — that people can — can commit.”

This line of thinking from its founder has left lasting marks on the legacy of Planned Parenthood. For example, 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of black or Hispanic communities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance report revealed that between 2007 and 2010, nearly 36 percent of all abortions in the United States were performed on black children, even though black Americans make up only 13 percent of our population. A further 21 percent of abortions were performed on Hispanics, and 7 percent more on other minority groups, for a total of 64 percent of U.S. abortions tragically performed on minority groups. Margaret Sangerwould have been proud of the effects of her legacy.

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/5/grossu-margaret-sanger-eugenicist/

 

 

 

And President Obama wants God to 

bless this monster?           

 

 

Edited August 2, 2015 by ladyGrace'sDaddy

[RV ME]

UPDATE: SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN OFFICER BOLTON

 

Please explain to me how someone can be sentenced 10+ years for bank robbery in February, and simply pay a fine and agree to mental health treatment and be free in July?  And the fact that Wilbourn had a gun and was making drug deals speaks volumes to the “supervised release”.  If this POS had actually been held responsible for his previous actions then Officer Bolton would still be alive today. RV ME

 

 

 

The alleged gunman who shot and killed a Memphis police officer during a traffic stop was free on supervised release stemming from a bank robbery conviction, FOX13 reported.

 

Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was sentenced to 121 months in prison in February for the robbery. But Wilbourn, who had also been arrested in 2014 on a charge of aggravated robbery, paid a fine and agreed to mental health treatment on July 7.

Less than a month later, a warrant for first-degree murder has been issued for Wilbourn.

 

Officer Sean Bolton, a 33-year-old former Marine who served a tour in Iraq, may have interrupted an illicit drug transaction when he encountered a Mercedes-Benz illegally parked on a Memphis street Saturday night, Police Director Toney Armstrong said at a Sunday evening press conference.

 

After Bolton illuminated the Mercedes with his spotlight, he approached the vehicle and was confronted by its passenger, who allegedly shot Bolton multiple times after a struggle, the director said.

 

Armstrong told reporters that 1.7 grams of marijuana was found inside the vehicle.

 

"He's a coward," Armstrong said of the suspect, Wilbourn, "you gunned down, you murdered a police officer, for less than 2 grams of marijuana. You literally destroyed a family."

 

“Last night we lost an officer and a great man, a dedicated servant and family member,” Armstrong said.

 

The police director said that the White House has contacted the department and is aware of the incident.

 

The United States Marshals Service has offered a $10,000 reward for Wilbourn’s capture. The Memphis City Council is set to vote on a resolution that would match the Marshals Service's offer and bring the total reward up to $20,000, FOX13 reported.

 

The driver of the vehicle turned himself in to authorities Sunday morning, and has since been released without charge, Armstrong said at the press conference.

 

Police were initially alerted about 9:18 p.m. Saturday that an officer had been shot multiple times. Armstrong said the officer was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.

 

In a statement Sunday morning, Memphis Police said that a civilian had used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting.

 

Armstrong said police are using all available resources to find the shooter and that officers are grieving, adding that "this is just a reminder of how dangerous" the job is. 

 

"Sadly to say, we've been here before," he said.

 

Bolton is the third Memphis officer to be fatally shot in slightly more than four years. Officer Tim Warren was killed while responding to a shooting at a downtown Memphis hotel in July 2011. In December 2012, Officer Martoiya Lang was killed while serving a warrant.

 

Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton Jr. said Bolton's death "speaks volumes about the inherent danger of police work" and asked others to "pray for the family and pray for our city."

 

"The men and women in blue have certain rules of engagement that they have to follow, but at any given minute in a 24-hour day they're dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement."

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/02/memphis-police-officer-shot-and-killed-during-traffic-stop/?intcmp=hpbt2

 

[Texstorm]

 Rest In Peace Sean Bolten and may they kill the the SOB that deserves it !

Edited August 3, 2015 by Texstorm

[darwinatridge]

 

I've never really understood what was meant by the phrase,

 

"The President's bully pulpit"  

 

Until Obama entered into his second term. 

 

The Prez sets the tone for everything. That's what it means, and that is 

 

exactly why all of this is happening. You don't yell,"fire", in a crowded 

 

​theater and expect no one to get hurt. And you don't spend yrs calling 

 

everyone who's not black a racist and expect people to act the same as

 

always. And for a little clarification let me show everyone what Obama

 

said about a real racist,

 

 <iframe width="854" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZKSm8xUf1go" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

​So who created this organization and what was her views of blacks?

 

 

 

GROSSU: Margaret Sanger, racist eugenicist extraordinaire

The founder of Planned Parenthood would have considered many Americans unworthy of life

 

By Arina Grossu - - Monday, May 5, 2014

Recent articles have reported on an unearthed video from 1947 ofMargaret Sanger demanding “no more babies” for 10 years in developing countries. A couple of years ago, Margaret Sanger was named one of Time magazine’s “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time.” Given her enduring influence, it’s worth considering what the woman who founded Planned Parenthood contributed to the eugenics movement.

Sanger shaped the eugenics movement in America and beyond in the 1930s and 1940s. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”

 

She even presented at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1926 in Silver Lake, N.J. She recounted this event in her autobiography: “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses … I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered” (Margaret Sanger, “An Autobiography,” Page 366). That she generated enthusiasm among some of America’s leading racists says something about the content and tone of her remarks.

In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the ***** population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘***** Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939).

Her own words and television appearances leave no room for parsing. For example, she wrote many articles about eugenics in the journal she founded in 1917, the Birth Control Review. Her articles included “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics” (June 1920), “The Eugenic Conscience” (February 1921), “The Purpose of Eugenics” (December 1924), “Birth Control and Positive Eugenics” (July 1925) and “Birth Control: The True Eugenics” (August 1928), to name a few.

The following are some of her more telling quotes:

“While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit. They are excellent means of meeting a certain phase of the situation, but I believe in regard to these, as in regard to other eugenic means, that they do not go to the bottom of the matter.” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review).

“Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review).

“Stop our national habit of human waste.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 6).

“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 7).

“The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” (“A Plan for Peace,” 1932).

In a 1957 interview with Mike Wallace, Sanger revealed: “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world — that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin — that people can — can commit.”

This line of thinking from its founder has left lasting marks on the legacy of Planned Parenthood. For example, 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of black or Hispanic communities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance report revealed that between 2007 and 2010, nearly 36 percent of all abortions in the United States were performed on black children, even though black Americans make up only 13 percent of our population. A further 21 percent of abortions were performed on Hispanics, and 7 percent more on other minority groups, for a total of 64 percent of U.S. abortions tragically performed on minority groups. Margaret Sangerwould have been proud of the effects of her legacy.

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/5/grossu-margaret-sanger-eugenicist/

 

 

 

And President Obama wants God to 

bless this monster?           

 

 

 

 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf

 

http://entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/39ba_47e.htm

[RV ME]

UPDATE : SUSPECT IN OFFICER BOLTON MURDER TURNS HIMSELF IN

 

 

“I want you to know one thing……I want you to know that one, I'm not a cold-blooded killer and two, I am not a coward.”  Other than not being able to count, I guess he is somewhat correct on his first point.  Technically he is a warm blooded, cold hearted killer.  His second point is debatable.

 

RV ME

 

Suspect in killing of Memphis police officer charged with murder, held on $9M bail

 

The man accused of murdering a Memphis police officer was being held on $9 million bail early Tuesday after turning himself in the day before. 

 

Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was charged with first-degree murder of officer Sean Bolton. Wilbourn is accused of killing Bolton after the officer interrupted a drug deal on Saturday night. Wilbourn managed to evade police for two days and had a few words for the Memphis department's director when he turned himself in. 

 

"He wanted to make it a point, to say that 'I want you to know one thing.'" Toney Armstrong told reporters Monday night. "I asked 'What was that?' He said 'I want you to know that one, I'm not a cold-blooded killer and two, I am not a coward.'"

Armstrong had used that word to describe Wilbourn during the manhunt following the shooting.

 

"I think he felt the walls closing in," Armstrong added, describing the search for the fugitive as "an exhaustive search both physically and mentally."

 

Wilbourn was a passenger in a 2002 Mercedes Benz that was parked illegally in a southeast Memphis neighborhood Saturday night, police said. Bolton approached the car and Wilbourn got out, confronted Bolton, and they got into a physical struggle, police said. Wilbourn took out a gun and fired, striking Bolton multiple times. The officer died at a hospital.

 

Wilbourn and the driver of the Mercedes ran away, and a neighbor used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting.

The driver later turned himself in to police, and was released without charges.

 

Armstrong said Bolton had interrupted a drug deal, and officers found about 1.7 grams of marijuana in the car.

 

Wilbourn was free on supervised release stemming from a bank robbery conviction, FOX13 reported. His lawyer argued during sentencing that Wilbourn was persuaded by his uncle to join the robbery to help him with his finances and "he was awaiting news regarding a possible college scholarship based on his athletic ability."

 

Wilbourn was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison and released on probation in July 2014. He used marijuana in December and was ordered to undergo mental health treatment July 7, according to federal court documents released Monday. It's not clear whether he was ever evaluated.

 

"All the signs were there, that clearly demonstrated he was a violent individual," Armstrong said at Monday's news conference.

 

Bolton, who was white, was a 33-year-old Marine who served in Iraq. He was the third Memphis officer to be fatally shot in slightly more than four years. Wilbourn, who goes by the names Tremaine Martin and "T-Streetz," is a black man who stands over 6-feet-2 and weighs 222 pounds.

 

Residents along the street where Bolton was gunned down said their block has been for years a quiet oasis amid the troubled neighborhood around them, where gunshots cut through the night and people are afraid to go outside after dark.

Melvin Norment, whose family has lived on the block for 25 years, said he saw the Mercedes on Saturday night and knew it didn't belong to his neighbors.

 

"It's not a car I've seen before," he said. "Because I sit outside all the time. I knew it wasn't anybody's car from around here."

 

Just a few blocks away -- at a busy intersection with fast-food restaurants, apartment complexes and an empty lot -- police have for years battled drugs and crime in this city long listed among America's most violent.

 

On Monday morning, yellow crime tape rested in a bundle along the curb on Summerlane Avenue. A vase with yellow, red and white flowers and a white stuffed unicorn had been placed at the scene as a make-shift memorial to the fallen officer.

The street is lined with small, mostly well-kept homes, and neighbors say it has been insulated from the crime erupting around them.

 

Phillip Price said he lives in Cottonwood Apartments, a complex located a few blocks from the shooting.

 

"We hear gunshots all the time," he said. "There's a lot of people here that carry weapons, that shouldn't be carrying weapons. Some of them are trigger happy. We have seven, eight different gangs in this area."

 

Michael Williams lives about three blocks from where Bolton was shot. Williams -- a police officer, candidate for mayor and president of the Memphis Police Association -- said he was in bed two weeks ago and heard 42 gunshots.

 

When they bought their house eight years ago, "you could be in your front yard and not be concerned, you didn't hear gunshots in the middle of the night, we weren't concerned about going to the gas station at night," he said.

 

But they've watched the neighborhood deteriorate, he said. Homeowners died off or moved to the suburbs, and the renters that replaced them didn't take the same sort of pride in keeping the streets safe and clean, he said.

 

"I even told my wife, `it's looking like it's time to move on,"' he said.

 

Meanwhile, the number of police officers has dwindled from more than 2,500 in the city to around 2,000, Williams said. Budget cuts dug into officers' pensions and benefits, prompting experienced officers to flee to other departments, in cities with better pay and lower crime rates.

 

Rank and file officers, he said, are disgruntled and burned out.

 

Williams believes the most recent shooting can be traced, at least to some degree, to the fury over police treatment of African-Americans in incidents across the country. Williams estimates that the Memphis police force is around 60 percent African-American, roughly reflective of the city's overall population.

 

"I think officers are becoming hesitant to react," Williams said. "They don't want to end up in court, or plastered all over the national news."