A suburban St. Louis police officer shot in the neck during a traffic stop 24 hours after five cops were slain in Dallas is paralyzed from the neck down.
Michael Flamion, 31, was gunned down from behind on July 8 after stopping a man for speeding in Ballwin, an affluent Missouri town of around 30,000 residents.
Antonio Taylor, 31, was arrested on suspicion of shooting the nine-year department veteran the same day after cops chased him down nearby.
He is believed to have fired and hit Flamion as he walked to his squad car to run a check.
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Wow, this is sad. I broke my neck in an auto accident and I was so close to being paralyzed and my wife new I would rather be dead if I had been paralyzed. She was a nervous wreck because she new what I would want. God Bless this officer!
ReplyDeleteThe shooter needs to have his neck broken. Let him live out the rest of his life as a quadriplegic too!
ReplyDeleteI'm preaching to the choir here but BLUE LIVES DO MATTER!!