Gotta give those Mounties credit, if my co-worker/buddy was shot and killed by that guy it would be tough not to pull the trigger and mess him up a bit......not saying kill him, but hurt him a bit. There's gotta be a lot of anger there.
Now we just need the courts to not screw this up. Put him away forever.
I expected this to end in a more violent way, much like it started. Good on the RCMP for avoiding further deaths. I certainly wonder what caused the wanna-be Rambo to surrender peacefully.
So he can get more face time in front of cameras and get a platform for his crazy BS
As a Mountie I'm pretty busted up that three of my comrades paid the ultimate price in the line of duty. I'm also extremely proud of the professionalism shown by the members who arrested the suspect today. He'll get his day in course as he's entitled to. Maintiens Le Droit
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Woke up to drive my parents to the airport. The first thing my father told me when I walked through his front door was that they caught him.
The car ride to the airport was discussing what happened and what will happen.
My mother said she read an article a few years ago about a reporter that interviewed Paul Bernardo. Seeing him, the conditions he lived in, and spending 15 seconds in a solitary confinement cell freaked the reporter out so badly that he gave up journalism.
People think that prison is a walk in the park. That it's a resort. That because prisoners are given uniforms to wear and a 3 basic meals a day that they are on vacation in Hawaii. This guy likely won't ever cut his supper with a knife and fork again. He'll never experience a vacation down south. He'll never get to see his sports teams play live. He'll never get to go to a friends wedding, bachelor party, or have one himself. His life is over and he's got to spend the rest of it in a cell. While I would have slept soundly if he was shot and killed wet night, death would be too easy.
We hear of how lax our justice system is. We hear snippets and half truths and take them at face value. We don't read sentencing decisions, nor the principles of sentencing. We assume the justice system is vengeance based and it's not.
Ideally I wish this didn't happen. I wish my friends and family weren't locked in their homes with a gunman running around their neighbourhood.
That said it happened. Based on that I hope his neighbours are Paul Bernado and Col. Williams.
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For them to have arrested him without seriously injuring him is amazing. Huge respect gained for the RCMP. Huge respect lost for the Canadian media and the embarrassment that was CBC reporting.
I went to bed early last night but woke up to hear the great news.
75% of my FB friends are in or from Moncton. Seeing the overwhelming number of posts that are appreciative of the RCMP's efforts, combined with a collective sigh of relief on my feed, was very moving. They are excited and in celebratory mode, but also wanting to share the story of those who paid the ultimate price.
It's exciting to see some sort of normalcy and happiness restored to such a great city and community.
The photograph from their wedding day in Moncton four years ago shows the groom in his red serge RCMP dress uniform. His dark hair is clipped short, and he is smiling the smile of a deliriously happy man. They are cheek-to-cheek, he and his bride. And she is stunning, wearing an off-white gown, clutching a bouquet with one hand and holding him, drawing him near, with the other.
It was obvious to anyone that was there that day that Dave Ross and Rachael Vander Ploeg were crazy about one another. He was a cop. She was a nurse. It was meant to be.
“I don’t know, maybe I am biased,” says Raquel Vander Ploeg, the bride’s sister-in-law. “But Rachael was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen. You could just tell that she and Dave were so in love with each other. And now…”
And now Constable Dave Ross, a police dog services handler with the Codiac RCMP, is dead. Slaughtered in Moncton along with two other officers in what RCMP Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown, the top Mountie in the province, described as “perhaps the darkest day in the history of the New Brunswick RCMP.”
Police have not released the names of the dead officers.
But all three men had families, sons and daughters and wives and lives to look forward to. And all three were just doing a job and, for all its knocks, for all the stories that you can find about a bad cop here, or there, these were the good guys, out risking their lives when they were shot down in a horrific crime.
Dave and Rachael Ross have a young son. He has blond hair. He looks like his mother. The couple were expecting their second child in September.
“These two little guys, or girl — we don’t know yet what it is going to be — will never know their Dad,” Raquel Vander Ploeg says. “This is the kind of nightmare that you never wake up from.”
Life is going to be different now for Moncton, for three grieving families, for a city that, in 2012, recorded zero homicides. Now three cops have been killed, two more wounded and a gunman is on the loose. It is the worst tragedy in Canadian policing since four Mounties were ambushed and killed in Mayerthorpe, Alta., in March 2005. How could life ever possibly be the same?
Rachael Ross’s family members were either already with her in Moncton or else en route Thursday to offer whatever comfort they could to the police widow, while trying to make some sense of a tragedy that will never make any sense.
When Ms. Ross got home from work Wednesday the garage door was wide open and the BBQ had been left on. There was no sign of her police officer husband. He had been called into work, and left immediately.
Raquel Vander Ploeg later spoke to her sister-in-law at the hospital.
“She was controlled, but not good,” she says. “She had just found out her husband had been shot.”
Moncton, meanwhile, remains under virtual lockdown. As of this writing the killer remains at large. There is a heavy police presence in the city. Residents have been advised to stay inside and lock their doors. Assistant Commissioner Brown met with the family members of the dead men Thursday morning.
The happy couple met at church
“There is nothing to describe the pain that they are going through,” he said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them.”
Dave and Rachael Ross met at church. They were together for two years, got engaged, married and, last month, celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary. Dave was still all smiles and Rachael, radiant.
“All these guys were family men, protectors of our society, great guys — and Dave was one of a kind,” Raquel Vander Ploeg says. “Dave loved his job. He was good at his job. He was a police dog handler, and it was what he had striven to be for years, and he got it, and now this happens.
“They had just celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary.”
Constable Ross was murdered on June 4. He had a beautiful wife and a blond-haired son. They were having another baby. He left the garage door open and the BBQ on when he left.
In this case, I don't give a crap about rehabilitation, this punk killed 3 cops and tried to kill 2 others. His immediate and permanent future should revolve around a 8x10 cell in the worst hell hole that we can find.
He's never getting out, or at least he should never get out.
But But But... Mental Illness... chance to save a 4th life...
I laughed when I read the last sentenced My Friend was killed in a stabbing on video. Guy was charged with 1st degree murder. Sentenced to only 8 years then reduced to 3 years. He was allowed out of Jail for almost a year while they challenging the sentence. Still convicted of First degree murder and only served 3 years. He's been out for years now. I have no faith in the legal system. I do agree revenge fantasy's can get out of hand.
Your friend's killer was either convicted as a young offender or he was not convicted of first degree murder. Neither of those are going to apply to this case.
This guy complains about an incereasing police state...I hate to point the obvious out that part of the reason is because of nut jobs like him!
The other thing I want to point out....this terrible out of control police state did an admirable job in keeping their cool and arresting him withot further blood shed. This despite losing three of their own. This despite the anger they must have been feeling. Despite at least some desire to pull the triggers themselves.
In short, they did everything the opposite way a supposed stifling and rights overwhleming police force would do things. They proved him wrong.
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The suspect was found watching hit CBC tv show "The Republic of Doyle" through someone's living room window, when a neighbor spotted him and called police.
The suspect was found watching hit CBC tv show "The Republic of Doyle" through someone's living room window, when a neighbor spotted him and called police.
CBC programming lulled him into a boredom induced trance, allowing him to be apprehended without incident.
Not sure if this has been posted here: it's a story about Norm MacDonald trying to contact someone from Moncton. It's a great little piece about Canada and makes you smile during a really crappy time.
When Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald heard what was happening in Moncton Wednesday, instead of going to the hockey game in L.A., he picked up the phone. Macdonald then tweeted the conversation:
