A small-town Kentucky police department mourning the ambush slaying of one of its men has received threats that more officers will be targeted, prompting an investigation by the FBI and state police, the police chief said Tuesday.
The department received a written threat last week that "there are more to come," a reference to the nighttime ambush slaying of Bardstown Officer Jason Ellis, 33, last month while the K-9 officer was headed home from work, said Chief Rick McCubbin.
"We don't even know if any of the threats are credible, but obviously we're going to treat them as if they are credible," McCubbin said, adding that police would continue operating as usual, while taking extra precautions, in Bardstown, a town of 12,000 about 40 miles southeast of Louisville.
Officers are responding to calls in teams of at least two, he said, but their routines haven't been changed in light of the slaying and the threats.
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Appalachian mentality.
ReplyDeleteWe don't even know if any of the threats are credible, But were going to get scared any way.
ReplyDeleteUm could this be because kentucky has the best gun laws in the nation.....or just the kentucky mafia
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone has started to do something about the corrupt police?
ReplyDeleteYou know, what everyone complains about and talks a good game about doing it themselves?
Isn't this what some of you wanted? Isn't this what some cops deserve? Is anyone really shocked by this?