An armed lifesaving angel in Trumps America/caption
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways" (Psalm 91:11); Praise the LORD you his angels you mighty ones who do his bidding who obey his word" (Psalm 103:20)
In the January 12th predawn desert on a remote stretch of Arizonas Interstate-10 a lone state trooper found himself in a life and death struggle. Horror worthy of Stephen Kings fiction only real.
The officer was following up on a motorists bizarre report. The caller heard a loud bang. His vehicle was shot. He saw a man in the roadway with a handgun". Although his own vehicle had lost power wisely he did not stop. Instead he immediately contacted authorities and kept going.
Much remains unclear. The gun-totting menace was likely the reckless driver who rolled the vehicle he came in. Swerving tire marks indicate high speed. Tragically his girlfriend 23-year-old Vanessa Monique Lopez-Ruiz of Phoenix was ejected during the crash. Other vehicular passersby described the man dragging the woman from the highway. (She later succumbed in the hospital from blunt force trauma injures.)
Arriving at the scene Officer Edward Andersson saw the man crouched over the woman to the roadways right shoulder. Exiting his cruiser he set out road flares and approached to offer assistance. The belligerent man uttered something unintelligible to him in Spanish. Then like the darkness before the dawn things went rapidly from badto as bad as they could be. Suddenly the suspect shot Andersson once with a 9mm pistol. The bullet pierced his upper right shoulder exiting through his right torso. The troopers arm went numb: his firing hand rendered useless.
Ambushing a person sent to help! Its inexcusable to vent obvious self-hatred upon an innocent in a blue uniform. The attackers barbaric behavior epitomizes the murderous go-to reaction of too many as of late. Specifically his actions eerily echo the toxicity of Barack Obamas disrespectful anti-cop rhetoric and Black Lives Matters demonstrated anarchy. Indeed the former lit the fuse by making blaming cops chic" in 2009. In tandem the other publicly targeted them making their assassinations appear normal".
But it turns out that nothing that happened that night was the norm. A physical fight ensued with the maimed officer being straddled and beaten in a savage way". Then out of nowhere the divine intervention of a good Samaritan: an Arizona resident Thomas Yoxall 43. He and his fiance pulled over and interceded. While she phoned police he tried to ward off the unrelenting attacker. Finally retrieving his own 9mm from a glove box Yoxall ended the threat. Two bullets to the assailants body and a third later to his head. Yoxall also managed to flag down a second motorist Brian Schober 44: a former paramedic who gave treatment and radioed for emergency evacuation helicopters. The cops life was spared. A miracle in the desert.
Later still shaken by events Mr. Yoxall said I firmly believe I was put thereby God." Thats the right person at the right place at the right time. As this incident occurred a little more than a week before Trumps inauguration might it portend good tidings for our countrys future? Given Mr. Trumps similarly unexpected and fortuitous appearance on the scene of the car wreck that was Obamas Americaand his swift actions as president to rescue herthe synchronicity is noteworthy.
In any case the aggressor was later identified as Leonard Pennelas-Escobar 37. Interestingly besides methamphetamine use authorities could find no criminal history. Yet ironically this cop-attacking thug might have been a Mexican federal police officer in 2007. Given his appalling assault upon an American counterpart clearly Mr. Pennelas-Escobar was no respecter of lifeor our laws. This was further proven by his illegal status.
Preventing similar tragedies is the reason for Trumps U.S.-Mexico border wall. Whether its paid for in pesos or dollars its a roadblock for criminal aliens that makes sense. Let the Pennelas-Escobars of the world stay where they originate. These border jumping troublemakers have no place in our most civilized open and tolerant society.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.