The high cost of our misplaced bleeding heart humanitarian empathy ! -  Indianapolis Police Officer Fatally Shot While Responding to a Car Crash

Associated Press

TimeJuly 28, 2017

Lt. Aaron Allen of the Southport Police Department was responding to a call about a crash with people trapped inside a vehicle

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(INDIANAPOLIS) — A police officer died after being shot multiple times while responding to a traffic crash on the south side of Indianapolis, authorities said Thursday.

Lt. Aaron Allen of the Southport Police Department was responding to a call about a crash with people trapped inside a vehicle Thursday afternoon when he was shot, Sgt. Kendale Adams of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told reporters at a news conference. Allen died at Eskenazi Hospital, Adams said.

“Shots were fired by one of the vehicle’s occupants, striking the Southport lieutenant,” Adams said.

Two other officers at the scene, including one who was off-duty at the time, returned fire, striking a person inside the vehicle, Adams said. That person and a second person injured in the crash were hospitalized and in custody with non-life-threatening injuries. Police did not release their names or discuss a motive for the shooting.

Allen was a six-year veteran of the Southport department and had nearly 20 years of law enforcement experience, Southport Police Chief Thomas https://www.yahoo.com/news/indianapolis-police-officer-fatally-shot-025318658.html www.yahoo.com/news/indianapolis-police-officer-fatally-shot-025318658.html