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    Cool Hand of God

    Officer survives being shot 7 times...

    Wounded Pennsylvania Officer Recovering; Suspect in Custody
    June 26, 2016 - Folcroft Police Officer Christopher Dorman was shot in the face through both cheeks, in his groin, in a leg and four times in his chest Friday morning.
    The call to Folcroft police Friday morning came in like a standard report: A resident had spotted a drug deal on the 1500 block of Elmwood Avenue, and wanted an officer to check it out. Christopher Dorman, a 25-year-old part-time officer who had just celebrated his one-year milestone with the department, responded to the call just before 10 a.m. Within seconds, a run-of-the-mill crime became an ambush, one of the most horrific police shootings Delaware County authorities say they have ever seen. Police say 33-year-old Donte Brooks Island -- commonly known as Abdul Wahi -- fired seven shots from a .40-caliber pistol as Dorman approached, striking the officer in the face through both cheeks, in his groin, in a leg, and four times in his chest. "I'm shot in the face! I'm shot in the face!" Dorman shouted to dispatchers. The call, broadcast over police radio, captured more shots being fired and Dorman repeating, "I'm shot! I'm shot!"

    After firing at two officers who arrived after Dorman was hit -- and hitting neither -- Island fled, launching a three-hour manhunt that drew nearly 200 officers from across the region and multiple armored vehicles to the tiny borough. Around 1 p.m. Friday, authorities found Island hiding out in an apartment on the same block. For hours, police had driven armored vehicles up and down the block and evacuated homes, raiding apartment after apartment looking for him. Island was expected to be arraigned Friday night on multiple counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault, authorities said. Dorman was in critical but stable condition Friday evening after undergoing multiple surgeries throughout the day. He is expected to make a full recovery, Folcroft police announced on Twitter Friday night. "This is a callous individual, he is a career criminal," District Attorney John J. Whelan said at a news conference Friday night at the Folcroft Fire Company station. "If we have our way ... he will never see the light of day again."


    Folcroft Police Officer Christopher Dorman was shot in the face through both cheeks, in his groin, in a leg and four times in his chest Friday morning.

    Police Chief Robert Ruskowski said Dorman grew up in Folcroft and long aspired to be a police officer. At 16, he joined Folcroft's fire company, volunteering mornings and nights throughout high school. Last June, he joined the Police Department. And this summer, he was in the final steps of applying to work for SEPTA Transit Police, Ruskowski said. "He's the guy . . . that you don't want to lose," Ruskowski said. "That's how great he is." Friends said Dorman picked up extra shifts constantly because he loved being a police officer. Around town, they said, everyone knew him. "He just wanted to give back to Folcroft," said Vinny Ferraccio, 26, a Glenolden resident, who said he has been friends with Dorman since they were 6. "He is the funniest, goofiest guy; he was always just there. You know Chris was someone you could always count on."

    Measuring less than two square miles, Folcroft Borough is not far from Philadelphia International Airport. One in five of its 6,500 residents lives below the poverty line. Certain spots -- including the 1500 block of Elmwood Avenue, where the shooting took place -- are known to be hubs for drugs. Police say that's where Island lived after being released from a 15-year sentence in federal prison. Since at least 2001, court records show, Island has been arrested multiple times in Philadelphia and its suburbs for dealing drugs, illegally carrying a firearm, and engaging in disorderly conduct. Whelan said there was an active warrant for his arrest. "I always saw him hanging around, coming in and out of apartments," said Tamika Dailey, 46, who lives on the block.

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    Wounded Pa. Officer Released From Hospital
    June 27, 2016 - Folcroft Officer Christopher Dorman was wheeled out of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's emergency room Monday afternoon.
    The Delaware County police officer wounded in a shooting last week has been released from the hospital. Folcroft Officer Christopher Dorman, 25, was wheeled out of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's emergency room about 2:15 p.m. Monday. The 25-year-old officer, who was shot seven times Friday while he responded to a report of drug activity, was greeted by claps and cheers from the more than 150 officers who had gathered at the hospital. "Thank god he's alive," said Folcroft Police Chief Robert Ruskowski, outside Penn Presbyterian shortly before the officer's release. "It's hard to believe from Friday to Monday." Ruskowski said Dorman still faces a number of surgeries for his wounds. "The main thing is, he survived with no complications and he is going to be okay," he said.


    Folcroft Officer Christopher Dorman was wheeled out of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's emergency room Monday afternoon.

    The chief said his heart dropped when he learned Dorman had been shot seven times. "You're planning a funeral at that point," he said. Now, Dorman is "ready to go," and in "great spirits," he said. "He has a bunch of lottery tickets all over his body." After leaving the hospital, Dorman got into a Folcroft police cruiser, surrounded by Philadelphia police motorcycles, to go to the borough's fire station, where well-wishers are expected to greet him. His family rode in a limousine. Ruskowski described Dorman as "a warrior" who was conscious the entire time and continued to give police information on the shooter.

    Sgt. Bill Bair, who had been about a half-mile away, said he rushed to the scene when he learned Dorman was hit. Shots were still being fired when he pulled up. The wounded officer jumped into the front seat of Bair's Chevrolet Tahoe. He told the sergeant, "Don't let me die," Bair recounted. "You're not going to die," the sergeant said he told Dorman, who was suffering from a "gruesome" facial wound. "There was blood everywhere," Bair said. "He wasn't complaining about his wounds."

    Bair said his car was cleaned, sanitized and ready to escort Dorman back to Folcroft. "How do you get shot seven times and not hit one vital" organ, he said. "I think you get worse in a bar fight." After Dorman was shot, an hours-long manhunt for the suspect ensued in the small Delaware County borough. Police captured the alleged gunman, 33-year-old Donte Brooks Island, who is also known as Abdul Wahi, early Friday afternoon. He has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and other offenses. The chief said counseling will be made available for his entire department.

    http://www.officer.com/news/12225901...-from-hospital

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    Hand of God? He got shot 7 times. Perhaps the hand was a little late or slow which is a poor excuse for God...
    I find your lack of faith...disturbing...

    -Darth Vader

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    It is odd that he was shot 7 times and not one vital organ was hit -- but I rather think God was nowhere around when it happened.

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    Jetliner In Mexico Crashes, Catches Fire, But All 103 Aboard Escape...


    Jetliner In Mexico Crashes, Catches Fire, But All 103 Aboard Escape


    August 1, 2018 - A jetliner crashed in bad weather shortly after takeoff from the western Mexican city of Durango, skidding to a halt in a nearby field. However, all 103 passengers and crew managed a miraculous escape before flames consumed the plane.
    Officials said 85 of the survivors who got out of the burning Aeromexico Embraer E190 suffered injuries in the crash. The Associated Press, citing a Durango state Health Ministry spokesman, said 49 people were hospitalized, most with minor injuries. "The pilot suffered the most serious injury, a cervical lesion that required surgery. Some people had burns on a quarter of their bodies," the AP said.


    Shaken passengers expressed gratitude for being alive. "It was really, really ugly," Lorenzo Nunez, a passenger from Chicago who fled the plane with his two sons and wife told reporters, according to the AP. "We felt the flames coming quickly ... there was a lot of smoke," Jaquelin Flores told the newspaper El So.


    Red Cross workers and rescue workers carry an injured person on a stretcher as airline workers walk away from the site where an Aeromexico airliner crashed in a field near the airport in Durango, Mexico, on Tuesday.




    Flight AM2431 took off in a heavy hailstorm from Guadalupe Victoria International Airport bound for Mexico City. The airport operator, Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte, said initial indications are that the weather was the cause of the crash, according to the BBC.




    Durango state Gov. Jose Aispuro said passengers reported a loud bang as the plane's left wing hit the ground and the engines tore loose. The accident occurred at about 4 p.m. local time. He said it was too soon to speculate on the cause of the crash. "Many managed to leave the plane on foot," Civil defense spokesperson Alejandro Cardoza was quoted by the BBC as saying.


    https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/63448...-aboard-escape

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    Quote Originally Posted by waltky View Post
    For hours, police had driven armored vehicles up and down the block and evacuated homes, raiding apartment after apartment looking for him.
    ... and no one has a problem with this??

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    Most passengers in non-fatal Mexican plane crash were U.S. citizens...

    Most passengers in non-fatal Mexican plane crash were U.S. citizens
    AUGUST 1, 2018 - At least 65 U.S. citizens were aboard the Aeromexico passenger jet that crashed in northern Mexico, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as investigators combed the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.
    The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after the plane took off from an airport in northern Durango state on Tuesday. All 103 passengers and crew survived by evacuating the plane before it caught fire. The U.S. consulate general in Monterrey and the U.S. embassy in Mexico City have been in touch with local and federal officials in Mexico and with the airline, an embassy spokesman said. Nearly everyone on the flight suffered minor injuries, Mexican officials said.


    Luis Gerardo Fonseca, director of Mexico’s civil aviation agency, told local news media on Wednesday that the plane’s flight recorders had been found. Commercial aircraft carry a $#@!pit voice recorder and a flight data recorder, commonly known as “black boxes,” which can contain crucial details of the last minutes of a flight before an accident. Video purportedly of the crash recorded from a plane window showed a dark sky and fog and the ground still visible moments before a thud and shrieking passengers were heard. Reuters could not independently verify the video.


    “The impact was very strong. We wanted to think it was a lightening strike,” said Chicago resident and passenger Lorenzo Nunez. “It was terrible, absolutely terrible.” Nunez said he had been visiting family in Durango. A time-lapse video posted by Webcams of Mexico, filmed during the hour before the crash, showed dark clouds and fog or rain moving in. Officials said it was too early to say what caused the crash of flight number 2431. Aeromexico said in a Wednesday morning Twitter post that 64 people had been released from hospitals. Two people were more seriously injured, including the pilot and a minor, the state health department said.


    Fonseca told broadcaster ADN40 that his team began working at the crash site around 7 a.m. local time (1200 GMT), along with representatives of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
    Representatives of Embraer SA and the maker of the plane’s engines, General Electric Co, were also assisting, Fonseca said. It can take safety investigators months to piece together the complex chain of events leading to an accident. Determining the cause of the Durango crash may be made easier by the location of the crash, which should allow easy access to evidence, such as the retrieved flight recorders, as well as interviews with the crew and other survivors.


    Under international rules, Mexico will lead the investigation with support from Brazil, where the Embraer jet was designed and built, and from the United States, where General Electric Co made the CF34-10E engines. Aeromexico leased the 10-year-old aircraft involved in Tuesday’s incident from Republic Airlines in the United States in 2014, according to data on Planespotters.net. A spokesman for Republic Airlines said on Wednesday that the company briefly leased the plane to Aeromexico, but the aircraft was sold to a third party in 2015. The airline did not give the name of the third party.


    https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mexico-crash/most-passengers-in-non-fatal-mexican-plane-crash-were-u-s-citizens-idUKKBN1KM5K7

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    Meet Donte Island (aka Abdul Wahi), the jihadi muslem that gunned down Officer Christopher Dorman:


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