Okay, something stinks here folks. I may be wrong, and it wouldn't be a 'stop the presses' moment for firsts if I turn out to be...but my highly tuned bunny nose is twitching with 'wrong'.
Longview police fatally shot a woman Thursday who they say threatened them in their own lobby with an undisclosed weapon.
Question #1. What weapon don't they want to tell us about? This statement came a sufficient time after the shooting to make the idea she didn't know the general type absurd. This isn't the NYPD or LAPD where countless thousands of people work and coexist, often without seeing each other over a whole career for how many others there are.
This is Longview, Texas with a whopping total of 172 cops. That would be going between all shifts, so a fraction of those were on and at the station. Was it a gun? Knife? A nerf bat? What?
The Texas Rangers are taking over the investigation and were on the scene Thursday night, interviewing police officers who were involved.
The plot thickens....Hmmm... Well, the Rangers will get to the bottom of it anyway. There aren't many law enforcement agencies I still trust to have integrity as an inherent part of what they do, but the Rangers are one of them. I suppose the public will know soon enough just how someone gets shot to pieces in a station lobby. Suicide by cop? Talk about an extreme case of it.