I don't often see that many cops having coffee together, although I saw about six, including a couple of under-covers, having coffee in Waves at Main & 10th last summer. I remember thinking, if you're "under cover" why would you announce to the public that you're a cop by sitting with a bunch of uniforms on your coffee break. A Downtown Eastsider told me how to recognize under covers wearing their "colours of the day".
Anyway, it occurred to me that there might be an element of risk for a bunch of cops to sit huddled together in Waves coffee shop. The VPD complain to the media that they are put at risk by people who want to commit "suicide by cop", so it wouldn't be much of stretch to think of suicide by cop in a coffee shop. But I guess it's a risk they're willing to take. (The VPD wear bullet-proof vests but so did the Tacoma cops executed in the coffee shop.)
When the four officers were shot in Tacoma, it was pointed out in the news that in many places in the U.S., police are forbidden to sit in groups in coffee shops.
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Sales in donut shops accross the continent will drop significantly after this event.
it is all sick. alot of people are parenoid on drugs. no one is safe. people sitting in waves might be in danger of stealing the souls of street people.
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it happened again in the states.
Two Pierce County Sheriff's deputies were "basically ambushed" Monday night when responding to a domestic violence call near Eatonville, a spokesman said.
The shooting was the third within two months in which police officers in the Seattle-Tacoma metroplitan area were targeted by gunmen.
Pierce County
David Edward Crable
The suspected shooter, identified as David Edward Crable, 35, was shot and killed during the incident, which happened shortly after 9 p.m. in the 34300 block of Tanwax Court East.
The Sheriff's office identified the officers as Deputy Kent Mundell and Sgt. Nick Hausner. Mundell, who is married with two kids, was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center. Hausner, a 20-year department veteran, was in serious condition at Madigan Army Medical Center. He is also married with two children
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