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Cop killings should never be normalized, or their deaths reported in small print:
Tulsa Police Sergeant, One of Two Officers Shot During Traffic Stop, Dies
By Neil Vigdor and
A police sergeant who was shot during a traffic stop in Tulsa, Okla., early Monday morning died of his injuries on Tuesday, and another officer who was critically wounded remained hospitalized, the authorities said.
The sergeant, Craig
Johnson, a 15-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department, underwent
emergency surgery for multiple gunshot wounds but did not survive, the
city’s police chief, Wendell Franklin, said at a news conference on
Tuesday afternoon. Several police officers and the city’s mayor flanked
the chief, who stood in front a patrol car that had been turned into a
makeshift memorial.
“His sacrifice
will not go unremembered,” Chief Franklin said. “I’m not going to forget
this, and I know these police officers here are not going to forget
this.”
Chief Franklin said that the
family of Sergeant Johnson, 45, who was married with two young sons, had
planned to donate his organs and had been presented with a Purple Heart
medal.
The killing of Sergeant Johnson followed a tumultuous period for law enforcement officers in Tulsa, which was the site of a June 20 rally for President Trump that drew protests. Many of the demonstrators protested the killing of George Floyd and police misconduct.
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The
driver, whom police identified as David Anthony Ware, 33, refused to
get out of his car when the officers told him that they were going to
have it towed, Chief Franklin said at the news conference on Monday.
A
struggle ensued, in which Sergeant Johnson fired his Taser at Mr. Ware,
who removed the stun gun’s prongs from his body. Sergeant Johnson then
used pepper spray on Mr. Ware, who pulled out a handgun and fired
several rounds at the officers as they removed him from the car, the
chief said.
The condition of the
other officer, Aurash Zarkeshan, 26, who had just finished training in
May and had been on patrol for about six weeks, was described on Monday
as critical. The Tulsa Fraternal Order of Police referred questions on
Tuesday about Officer Zarkeshan’s condition to the Police Department,
which did not give an update.
Armin Zarkeshan, Officer Zarkeshan’s brother, said in a brief interview on Tuesday night that the officer was “doing better.”
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