Florida Cop Killer Murdered Officer Because He Felt Like a “Caged Rat”
There are millions of cop haters in America, and while some of them are just scumbags, people who resent the fact they got a traffic ticket, or ordinary human beings who just dislike authority, there are those who will kill police officers with little provocation. Such was the case with Antonio Parilla Jr., who was wanted on a minor probation violation.
(Newser) A Florida man who allegedly told investigators he killed an officer because he felt like a “caged rat” and didn’t want to go back to jail now has little hope of ever leaving prison alive. Authorities say Marco Antonio Parilla Jr., 23, who was wanted on a probation violation, was searching an apartment complex in Tarpon Springs early yesterday morning for the person who reported the violation when Officer Charles Kondek arrived to investigate a noise complaint, NBC reports. Parilla allegedly fired seven shots at the officer, hitting him once above his bulletproof vest, and then ran him over as he fled the scene. He was arrested after crashing his car and now faces first-degree murder charges.
Officials in Florida say Parilla got out of prison in March after serving more than two years for various offenses, including drug charges, the AP reports. “His reason for shooting the officer was he ‘felt like a caged rat,'” the local sheriff says. “Well, he’s going back to prison and he can be a caged rat in prison because that’s where he belongs.” Kondek, 45, was married with six children and had served five years with the NYPD before joining the Tarpon Springs force 17 years ago. He spent most of his career on the midnight shift, where people he dealt with describe him as pleasant and fair-minded. “I don’t always get along with cops, but nobody deserves to die like that,” a homeless man who stopped in front of a flower-covered squad car that served as a memorial told the Tampa Tribune.
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People will never understand, police included, that we cannot have a civilized world that is based on violence. Countries other than America seem to have figured that out but here we have far too many guns available to far too many people who have mental issues and we seem to have a government full of people that really do not give a damn about either of those issues. Bad people and hard headed dumb butts like the idea of playing cops and robbers but do not really know who the robbers are in the real world. Good people doing a really tough job the best way they can get killed for no reason. Bad people who are screwing up seem to never be the ones caught in a cross fire. While I don’t believe that anyone deserves to have to die a violent death, those that must die a violent death should be the violent people. I remember in the 70’s the police had it worse than it is today. I lost two good friends in the space of three years on a department of less than 70 patrol officers. Both very good men and neither deserved what happened to them. But, here again, it was not the assholes on the department that got it, it was two of the good guys. In fact, when we were targeted by a black racist organization in 1970 to have two police officers killed they did not care which ones were killed as long as they were police. Thanks to information supplied by informants in the black community they were not successful.
At some point people on all sides of this crap are going to have to start to think rationally before things start blowing up again like in the sixties. Hopefully it will not come to that but since the rhetoric began when Barrak Obama became President of the United States the divide between people in the country have gotten worse. People that I have known for years have lost their tolerance for others of different races and religions. The idea of having a civil conversation with anyone about political, racial, or religious differences has become impossible even between friends anymore. this experiment is slowly failing.
Well said my friend and I couldn’t agree more.