{"id":68729,"date":"2016-11-02T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68729"},"modified":"2016-11-02T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:10:23","slug":"des-moines-area-officers-ambushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68729","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines area officers ambushed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/11\/02\/2-iowa-police-officers-killed-in-apparent-ambush-attacks.html\">Fox News<\/a>, two Des Moines police officers were ambushed last night, while we were sleeping.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shootings came near Des Moines and occurred just 20 minutes apart, according to Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek. One Des Moines police officer and another from the suburb of Urbandale were found in their bullet-riddled cruisers, and at least one was alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s somebody out there shooting police. There is a clear and present danger to police officers right now,\u201d Parizek said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.odmp.org\/search\/year\/2016\">Officer Down Memorial Page<\/a>&#8221; 111 officers have died in the line of duty this year nationwide, also, 29 K9 officers have died. 130 officers died in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/2-police-officers-killed-ambush-attacks\/93155012\/\">Des Moines Register<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Des Moines, this is the first police officer shot and killed in the line of duty since two officers were gunned down in separate incidents in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Two Des Moines officers, Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales, also died earlier this year when their vehicle was struck head-on by a wrong-way drunken driver.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely the first Urbandale officer shot in the line of duty,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, two Des Moines police officers were ambushed last night, while we were &hellip; <a title=\"Des Moines area officers ambushed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68729\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Des Moines area officers ambushed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}