Cop shot to death with her own gun

((The officer in this incident was a black woman. The difference her
being black makes? None at all. In her being a woman? Very probably a
considerable one although it's hard to say. One thing's for sure, the
gun control cunts can't perceive that the average civilian is less at
risk from his or her own guns than the average police officer. Yet,
the cops are all they want armed. Not too smart, these sons of cum-
belching road whores.-Bret))



Cop shot to death with her own gun



NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- A vagrant wanted for questioning in a
rape overpowered a police officer who was trying to handcuff him, then
shot her to death with her own weapon, police said.


Officer Nicola Cotton, 24, was shot to death by a vagrant wanted for
questioning in a rape.


The officer's death Monday was a blow to this city, where hopes were
high that a new year could hold back a wave of crime that has been a
dark backdrop to the rebuilding effort since Hurricane Katrina.

"When it hits home like this, it hits you tremendously," said Police
Superintendent Warren Riley, who was charged with energizing a
demoralized police force in the 2005 storm's wake.

Officer Nicola Cotton, 24, approached the suspect in her police
cruiser and began questioning him. When she tried to handcuff him he
attacked her, and a seven-minute fight ensued, Riley said.

The officer managed to use her radio during the struggle to call for
backup, but the man grabbed her weapon and shot her repeatedly, Riley
said.

"I can tell you this officer fought with a man twice her size, and she
fought very courageously," Riley said. "She followed procedure as far
as we're concerned."

Riley said police have several witnesses to the shooting in a parking
lot near a busy intersection in the crime-plagued Central City
neighborhood and a few streets away from the district police station.

But passers-by may not have seen the drawn-out struggle because the
pair were on the ground and shielded by the officer's vehicle, Riley
said. Police said security videotape captured the lethal assault.

The suspect, Bernell Johnson, 44, stayed on the scene until other
officers arrived and was arrested, police spokesman Sgt. Joe Narcisse
said.

He was booked on a charge of first-degree murder, and it wasn't known
Monday night whether he had been assigned a lawyer. Riley said Johnson
had been arrested several times before on suspected sex offenses.

Cotton was among the first graduates of the police academy after
Katrina. At the time, the Police Department was hemorrhaging officers
and was aggressively recruiting.

Riley called Cotton a "clean-cut" woman who "carried herself well."

"This is a very difficult and sad day for the New Orleans Police
Department," Riley said. "I just left a group of officers who are
crying, upset."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/29/cop.shot.ap/index.html

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