out and start this and start talking and stuff on social media, to push back against it and demand, demand people that belong to these organizations to get out of their town. there is no room for it. look, the american police officer is holding these communities together. and we need the support of the people that we defend every day in order to get that done. god bless the harris sheriff s office. kudos to that district attorney for acknowledge the war on police. i m tired of qualifying all these statements by talking about bad apples within the policing profession. all right. sheriff, i want you to take a listen to what ron hickman, the harris county sheriff said. we have heard black lives matter. all lives matter. all lives matters, too. wife don t we drop the qualifier and say lives matter and take that to the bank. interesting reaction. we need to hear more of that from everybody. i know there has been some push back on that and that s good. this whole movement black
out and start this and start talking and stuff on social media, to push back against it and demand, demand people that belong to these organizations to get out of their town. there is no room for it. look, the american police officer is holding these communities together. and we need the support of the people that we defend every day in order to get that done. god bless the harris sheriff s office. kudos to that district attorney for acknowledge the war on police. i m tired of qualifying all these statements by talking about bad apples within the policing profession. all right. sheriff, i want you to take a listen to what ron hickman, the harris county sheriff said. we have heard black lives matter. all lives matter. all lives matters, too. wife don t we drop the qualifier and say lives matter and take that to the bank. interesting reaction. we need to hear more of that from everybody. i know there has been some push back on that and that s good. this whole movement black
area is familiar with who this is and may already know and, as nick mentioned, may already have taken him into custody. harris county sheriff ron hickman says this gunman shot and killed deputy goforth for no apparent reason and it seemed to be unprovoked. in your experience, are killings like this typically as random as this one appears to be? or do you believe as time goes on throughout the morning or maybe the week, we will learn there is something more here? we don t know. we may learn there is something more to this but this year already in the country, we are averaging almost three police officers per month shot and killed at the line of duty. now, again, many of them are in enforcement actions trying to arrest somebody, trying to make a traffic stop or interrupt a crime. but in this case, again, like the new york case, you clearly have someone who had no other encounter, initiated the encounter with the police
this is the sheriff of houston who we heard from a little bit earlier overnight after his deputy was shot. he had some incredibly strong words about the fact that his officer who was wearing a badge obviously that badge had now become a target he s there. and obviously we hope to learn more about a possible suspect in this case in the shooting of execution of one of his deputies. yeah, that s actually harris county sheriff ron hickman. we heard him last night after the shooting say he can t recall another incident so cold-blooded and so cowardly. what we do know is darren goforth had just a routine traffic incident, violation earlier in the evening. he was filling up his patrol car and he was shot not only in the back by an alleged shooter but the alleged shooter approached him and continued shooting him. so let s listen in now to harris county sheriff ron hickman. good afternoon. today the harris county sheriff s office mourns the loss of one of our own.
thank you. thank you. a press conference now wrapping up in houston. you could tell an emotional and for that matter fairly angry sheriff ron hickman talking about his deputy who was gunned down. and we learned probably the most significant part of this is that earlier they had questioned somebody and there was a debate over whether it was a suspect or person of interest or who this person was. and what you got from this news conference is for that matter they have no idea there in houston who shot and killed deputy darren goforth, left two kids orphaned, a wife behind. they do have a surveillance picture which you would think would be the most important piece of evidence at least that they have so far in this case. and that is a picture of the suspect. let s bring in rod wheeler, former d.c. homicide detective who s been listening along with us and offered some thoughts earlier. we ll get to the issue of cops lives matter, all lives matter and assault on the fabric of