2 Policemen Shot & Killed During Traffic Stop

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Three men and a woman have been charged in the fatal shooting of two police officers during a traffic stop in the southern Mississippi city of Hattiesburg, authorities said Sunday. The officers, Benjamin J. Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, were gunned down Saturday night after Deen pulled over a Hyundai for a speeding violation and called for back up, officials said.

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According to the video, the number of officers ambushed and killed in 2013 was 5. The next year it was 15. I wonder if this number is going to continue to climb. This doesn't actually sound like an ambush, if by "ambush" they mean a planned execution.

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The suspects fled, with Marvin Banks alleged to have escaped in one of the officers' vehicles, said Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.

He ditched the car a few blocks down the road.

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Deen and Tate were the first Hattiesburg cops to die in the line of duty in three decades. Deen was a K9 handler, while Tate had been on the force for less than a year. DuPree said the loss of Tate, who had an "infectious smile" and Deen, who was a married father of two, was "a tragedy for all Americans." Tate's mother, Yolanda Ross, told NBC station WDAM of Laurel that the last words her son spoke to here were "I love you, too, Mama."

In an article I read yesterday, the people who found the slain cops said that one of them was still alive and asked for the person to hand him his radio. This happened 2 days ago, thought it was worth mentioning here.

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