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   From: race.war.coming@barackobama.com   
      
   HOUSTON — Texas prosecutors Saturday charged a 30-year-old man   
   with capital murder in the killing of a uniformed sheriff's   
   deputy who was gunned down from behind while filling his patrol   
   car with gas in what officials described as a "senseless and   
   cowardly act."   
      
   The arrest of Shannon J. Miles — who has a criminal history that   
   includes convictions for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct   
   with a firearm — came less than 24 hours after authorities said   
   he ambushed Darren Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris   
   County Sheriff's Office, at a suburban Houston Chevron station.   
      
   "I am proud of the men and women that have worked swiftly to   
   apprehend the responsible person who posed a significant threat   
   to both law enforcement and the community at large," Harris   
   County Sheriff Ron Hickman said at a news conference. "Our   
   deputies return to the streets tonight to hold a delicate peace   
   that was shattered last evening."   
      
   Court and jail records did not list an attorney for Miles.   
      
   Hickman said the motive for the killing had not been determined   
   but investigators would look at whether Miles, who is black, was   
   motivated by anger over recent killings elsewhere of black men   
   by police that have spawned the "Black Lives Matter" protest   
   movement. Goforth was white.   
      
   "I think that's something that we have to keep an eye on,"   
   Hickman said. "The general climate of that kind of rhetoric can   
   be influential on people to do things like this. We're still   
   searching to find out if that's actually a motive."   
      
   Hickman said investigators are working on the assumption "that   
   he was a target because he wore a uniform."   
      
   Goforth, 47, was pumping gas Friday night when the gunman   
   approached him from behind and fired multiple shots, continuing   
   to fire after the deputy had fallen to the ground.   
      
   The deputy had gone to the Chevron gas station in Cypress, a   
   middle-class to upper-middle-class suburban area of Harris   
   County that is unincorporated and is northwest of Houston, after   
   responding to a routine car accident earlier Friday.   
      
   On Saturday, Hickman called the killing a "cold-blooded   
   assassination."   
      
   "Cops' lives matter, too," Hickman said then. "So why don't we   
   drop the qualifier and say lives matter."   
      
   Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson echoed Hickman's   
   sentiments.   
      
   "There are a few bad apples in every profession. That does not   
   mean there should be open warfare declared on law enforcement,"   
   she said.   
      
   In a statement Saturday, Gov. Greg Abbott said "heinous and   
   deliberate crimes against law enforcement will not be tolerated"   
   and that the state "reveres the men and women in law   
   enforcement, who put their lives on the line every day to   
   protect and serve their communities."   
      
   http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_28726555/man-held-   
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