POLICE WORK – AT 11:48 A.M. ET:  It has happened again.  From the Orlando Sentinel: 

Two Orlando-area law enforcement officers were killed this morning, one shot by a murder suspect who managed to get away and a second killed in a crash while officers and deputies scrambled to find him.

The first victim was an Orlando police officer, Master Sgt. Debra Clayton, who was shot and killed on Princeton Street as she tried to detain the suspect.

Orlando Police Chief John Mina called Clayton, a mother of two, "a hero. She gave her life for the community she loves."

It resulted in a huge manhunt for the suspect, Markeith Loyd, 43, who was wanted, accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend.

Shortly before noon, about four hours after the shooting, a SWAT team was at an apartment complex off Cinderlane Parkway with rifles out while a law enforcement helicopter circled overhead.

An officer on a bullhorn called the suspect by name and told him to come out.

The second law enforcement death today was an Orange County motorcycle deputy who was part of the effort to capture the suspect, said Sheriff Jerry Demings.

“We’re sad on this day for many reasons," Demings said at a morning news conference at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Both officers were taken and pronounced dead there.

Demings did not release the name of the deputy, saying the agency was still trying to notify relatives.

Both agencies identified the shooter as Markeith Loyd, 43, a man who officers and deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office tried to corner and arrest earlier today.

COMMENT:  Master Sgt. Clayton was an African-American female officer.  I wonder if her black life will matter to Black Lives Matter.  I'm not holding my breath.

There has been a dramatic increase in the murder of police officers in the last year.  That doesn't seem to move the man who has less than two weeks left in his presidency.  I think it will move the incoming president.

January 9, 2017