{"id":14497,"date":"2016-04-16T06:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=14497"},"modified":"2016-04-16T06:43:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T11:43:18","slug":"texas-news-new-video-shows-moments-surrounding-the-ambush-of-houston-constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/16\/texas-news-new-video-shows-moments-surrounding-the-ambush-of-houston-constable\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas News: New Video Shows Moments Surrounding the Ambush of Houston Constable"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be an uptick in both Law Enforcement and Firefighters <\/a>\u00a0being “ambushed” and shot in cold blood all over the country as of late. Personally, crap like this pisses me off to no end..these are the actions of spineless, nutless cowards, not men. You got a beef with somebody, go through legitimate channels to get it resolved.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To all CO’s out there, let’s do our part to help catch these POS and bring them to justice! -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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HOUSTON, Texas \u2014 Video has been released showing the ambush of the Houston-area constable who was shot on Wednesday as he was kneeling by a deputy trainee\u2019s patrol car. The ambush occurred after a routine traffic stop in Houston\u2019s Third Ward, a neighborhood known for violent crime. A person of interest has been questioned.<\/p>\n

The video<\/a> was an exclusive release by the NBC affiliate in Houston, Click2 Houston.<\/p>\n

Breitbart Texas reported<\/a> on Wednesday that the eleven-year veteran, Deputy Constable Alden Clopton, was\u00a0shot four times in what is being reported as an \u201cabsolute ambush.\u201d The shooter fired six shots in all.<\/p>\n

The Harris County (Houston), Texas Precinct 7 constable deputy was kneeling by the side of a deputy trainee\u2019s car when the ambush occurred. He had his back exposed and was helping the trainee, Reserve Deputy Anne Glasco, with her computer. After he was shot, the female deputy constable trainee got out of her patrol car and shot back. It is not known at this time whether the shooter sustained any injuries.<\/p>\n

The shooter cannot be seen within the surveillance video frame.<\/p>\n

Deputy Clopton is still in serious condition after sustaining shots to his chest and stomach area. Doctors reported that his surgery went well and he is in critical but stable condition in the shock trauma intensive care unit at Memorial Herman hospital in Houston. Physicians do not expect that any future surgeries will be needed. He is expected to be in the hospital for at least one more week.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made but a person of interest showed up at a fire station shortly after the ambush. No more information is presently available about this individual or about what the person told those at the fire station. There have been no arrests or charges.<\/p>\n

Deputy Clopton is the father of five children and his wife is a Harris County sheriff\u2019s deputy. His three brothers are also law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n

Clopton is the second law enforcement officer to be ambushed within less than a year in Houston. Breitbart Texas reported extensively<\/a> on the case of Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth. Goforth was at a gas station in uniform with his partol car when he was gunned down 15 times<\/a> in the head and the back. Deputy Goforth died at the scene<\/a>. His accused murderer, Shannon Miles, is not going to trial at this time because he has been found incompetent to stand trial, as reported<\/a> by Breitbart Texas.<\/p>\n

After Deputy Goforth\u2019s execution-style killing, Breitbart Texas was at the press conference when Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman addressed the anti-cop behavior that had been occurring in the area after the death of Sandra Bland in a Waller County, Texas jail. Breitbart Texas reported<\/a> about these events from the rural county jail. The jail where Bland died is approximately 40 miles from where Deputy Goforth was shot.<\/p>\n

When asked about the motivation for the shooting, Sheriff Hickman answered<\/a>, \u201cThis rhetoric has gotten out of control.\u201d He added,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve heard \u2018black lives matter,\u2019 \u2018all lives matter,\u2019 well cops\u2019 lives matter too,\u201d said the leader\u00a0of the third largest sheriff\u2019s office\u00a0in the country.\u00a0The visibly emotional Hickman continued, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we just drop the qualifier and say \u2018lives matter.\u2019 Take that to the bank.\u201d\u00a0\u201cAt this point,\u201d referring to the executed deputy, the sheriff said, \u201che was only targeted because he was wearing a uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miles was charged with capitol murder for shooting a police officer with the motivation for the shooting being that he was a police officer, as reported<\/a> by Breitbart Texas.<\/p>\n

Read the Original Article at Breitbart Texas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There seems to be an uptick in both Law Enforcement and Firefighters \u00a0being “ambushed” and shot in cold blood all over the country as of late. Personally, crap like this pisses me off to no end..these are the actions of spineless, nutless cowards, not men. You got a beef with somebody, go through legitimate channels…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,2086,1928],"tags":[2615,11242,11243],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}