Female Cop Is Fort Hood Hero

An as-yet-to-be identified female police officer %20<div%20class=%22rpuEmbedCode%22>%20<div%20class=%22rpuArticle%20rpuRepostMain%20rpuRepost-83bc8ff54ccf32fc0b26a0b545303b1a-bottom%22%20style=%22display:none;%22>&nbsp;</div>%20<div%20style=%22display:%20none;%22></div>%20</div>” target=”_blank”>risked her life to save others at Fort Hood.

…by all accounts, she risked her life to ensure the bedlam wrought by Spc. Ivan Lopez came to a close in the second building he entered.

By then, Lopez, whom the Army chief of staff has described as a “very experienced soldier,” had taken three lives and wounded 16 people — all of them Army personnel. Without the officer’s courageous actions, Wednesday’s casualty count might have been higher.

“It was clearly heroic what she did in that moment in time,” said Lt. Gen. Mark Milley [pictured], the post’s commander. “She did her job, and she did exactly what we’d expect of a United States Army military police.”…

“He was approaching her at about 20 feet. He put his hands up, then reached under his jacket, pulled out the (semiautomatic) and she pulled out her weapon,” the lieutenant general said.

“She engaged, and then he put the weapon to his head and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Milley said.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.