Seventeen shots were fired into the home of an Indianapolis police officer not long after returning home from his shift. He and his family are safe, but the attack on their home and peace of mind is inexcusable.
March Eugene Ratney, according to Department of Correction records, wasn’t due to be released from prison until this past June 6 after serving half of a 12-year sentence following his conviction as a serious violent felon with a weapon. Ten days later, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officers were called to an east side address where Ratney’s sister said he had pulled a gun and threatened to kill her.
During his interrogation, Ratney became belligerent, cursing, denying the shooting and urinating in the interrogation room. The interview was concluded at that point.
Chief Troy Riggs is deeply concerned for his officers and the community at large.
“If we’re going to overcome issues in our community, whether perceived or actual, we’ve got to work together and we can’t tolerate this,” IMPD Chief Troy Riggs. “This officer represents this city and our city was attacked and his family was attacked as a result.”
Riggs sent out a message to all of his officers reminding them of the dangers that present themselves both on duty and off to policemen and women and their families.
“We should continue to remind each other we need to remain alert and vigilant. It is imperative that we and our families have an action plan in case of (a) serious incident such as this.”
Riggs said his officers would maintain a heightened sense of awareness while patrolling downtown Indianapolis during this coming weekend’s Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration which always attracts tens thousands of people to the city’s central core as a similar mass gathering provided the opportunity for the Dallas gunman to open fire.
Black Lives Matter spokesman, Muhammad Siddeeq of The Concerned Clergy, claimed that, “He is not a part of the movement and you can tell he’s not a part of the movement just in his approach to this whole issue.” He also stated that BLM is trying to do positive things and peacefully resolve issues.
“We’re hurt that there would be such a vicious and callous attempt to terrorize a police officer’s home where his family and everyone is residing and we’re triply hurt when we see that he’s carrying a symbolic representation of an organization that he’s not representing in spirit or any other way.”
Rarely does one hear anything positive about the movement on the nightly news however. Much of the reporting on BLM protests are far from peaceful or problem solving.
The officer, whose home was targeted by Ratney, had arrested him several years prior on a gun charge. Ratney could be charged this time as a serious violent felon, as he is a self proclaimed “two-time loser”. He could also face a federal prosecution.
The Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police issued this statement:
The Indy FOP released the following statement in regards to the shooting:
Our collective police membership is concerned about this incident. We have reached out to the officer involved to ensure the officer and their family have all the resources they need at this time.
Like any attack on on our police, we must accurately account for the facts so that we may have a complete investigation to better understand how this occurred and hopefully prevent such incidents in the future.
In the interim, we continue our call for mandated reporting of assaults on law enforcement officers. Currently only 57% of police agencies report these statistics to a national database.
We look forward to working with our elected leaders in Indiana and at the federal level in the coming days to enact such legislation and we call upon residents to join us in these enhancement efforts.
Law is the safeguard of freedom, when those who swear to uphold the law fall under attack it threatens the fabric of our society.
We must come together to help protect those who protect our communities.
Source: Fox 59
Racist hating filthy savages
Put the thug in jail & throw the key away!
BLM thugs are bought & paid for by Obama’s puppeteer Soros & under Obama’s protection.
He needs to be hung on national tv…….
Just another thug! He’ll get away with it cause he’s depraved on account of he’s deprived!
Mike reed does this make the white people that were shot buy police, black! Isn’t that their line of garbage that MOST BLACKS ARE KILLED/SHOT BY COPS? Well then I’m confused! How do blacks do math? Oh wait its COMMON CORE! It’s not what it is it’s what you WANT IT TO BE! Just like OBOMITS facts and figures. All creative!
Fry the fuckers
did you read the post,all other races where regesterd as “unknown race”