Gunman at Large After Cop Car Fired On, Crashes Near Boston

[Historic NY]

Source: NBC news

State and local police in Massachusetts were hunting a man who opened fire on a marked police cruiser Wednesday, causing it to crash and catch on fire, authorities said.

Active scene here in Millis as someone has allegedly fired shots at a police cruiser. Search is underway for suspect. pic.twitter.com/tgUw1T0hXx
— Scott Wholley (@scottwholley) September 2, 2015

No injuries were immediately reported after a white man driving a dark pickup truck fired into the police cruiser about 3 p.m. ET in the town of Millis, about 20 miles southwest of Boston, state police said. The gunman remained at large late Wednesday afternoon, they said.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-large-after-cop-car-fired-near-boston-n420521?cid=sm_tw&hootPostID=af09797fae7bc28e6dee3d0287b2a4f4

---

Appears to be still on-going in the Millis community.

[jtuck004]

1. Treating them like an army of occupation, instead of police. Not surprised. n/t

[passiveporcupine]

5. What do you mean?

Millis police and fire units were already out in force at the time after a threatening phone call was made to Millis Middle School, the school confirmed late Wednesday afternoon.

The threat wasn't immediately believed to related, but all Millis public schools were locked down and then evacuated a "possible" bomb threat was phoned in, the Millis Monitor, a local news site, reported.

From the OP link, there was a bomb threat at a school, and the police were on patrol...how is this treating anyone like an army of occupation?

Is there a story I'm missing here?

[branford]

9. WTF? Who's treating them like an "army of occupation?"

The children at the school whom the officers were there to protect from a possible bomb threat?

If you ridiculously believe that all local police are some adversarial occupying army, you best be prepared for a war you will not, and should not win, and where the vast, vast majority of the population, even in very blue Massachusetts, will overwhelmingly support law enforcement against nihilistic zealots who explicitly or implicitly excuse violence against police who are properly doing their jobs.

[840high]

10. Obviously you didn't bother

to read.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. "white man driving a dark pickup truck fired into the police cruiser ".

I wonder if BLM will get blamed for this?

[valerief]

4. Someone black will. Obama maybe? nt

[Xipe Totec]

3. Boston is not a good place to snipe at the police.

Boston remembers and loves its officers.

?w=600

[Xipe Totec]

8. Your reply is beneath contempt.

I would alert on it, but I would rather it hang there like the wretched hate filled rag that it is, so that everyone at DU can get a whiff of what you stand for.

Enjoy your stay.

[840high]

11. I agree with you.

[GP6971]

13. They're outside the reach of

MIRT so hopefully the Admins will ban them.

[Keefer]

12. Where is a good place to

"snipe at police?"

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. So sad - I lived in Millis back in the

70s - sleepy little town - never any trouble..never even thought about having a gun..or locking doors for that matter...just don't know what is going on....