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Teenager Shoots LAPD Chopper, Forcing it to Make ‘Crippled’ Landing
- Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:49pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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(Photo: CBS)
An LA police department helicopter took heavy fire from a disgruntled teenager Sunday. And when one of the bullets from the boy’s rifle connected, the chopper was forced to make an emergency, ‘crippled’ landing at a local airport:
CBSLosAngeles.com reports:
The pilot managed to land the crippled chopper at Van Nuys Airport.
Danny Lopez, 18, was shooting a firearm because he was distraught over the death of a friend, according to police.
Lopez was tackled by his family and subsequently arrested for attempted murder of a police officer.
No one was injured.
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Comments (114)
Two Party Scam
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:44pmGlad to see yet another illegal mexican immigrant ‘fitting in.’
Vivre Wisconsin!
Vivre Freedom!
Report Post »plaidness
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:40pmHis lawyers must come up with the “grief” story. GOOD GRIEF!
Report Post »showmerancher
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:33pmEver notice how police helicopters tend to spend most of their time circling over the most demographically Democrat parts of town?
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:33pmIsn’t it just like the cops to react stupidly and arrest him.I think Obama needs to address this.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:30pmOnly in Commiefornia do you find such excuses. I guess if he had killed one of the officers it would have been ok too. After all, he was just an upset kid. Not to mention he is probably from illegal parents.
Report Post »smak
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:29pm>>>>>> No not suprised much anymore with anything happening in California.
Apple computer wasn’t created in Alabama.
Report Post »chuck_wagon
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:27pmI’ll bet californiacation passes a law making it really, really illegal to shoot at helicopters. And they’ll really, really enforce it along with all the other laws on the books the enforce soooooo well. I hate democrats.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:24pmTaking heavy fire??? From a kid with a rifle?? Give me a break!
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:32pmDepends on the rifle. It could have been quite powerful. A larger caliber Browning or Marlin rifle (say a 30-06 or 30-30 or one of the common hi-velocity hunting rounds) can take down an aircraft with relative ease if the aircraft is low & slow enough (like a low flying police chopper doing a ground search) to be hit.
Remember, early WW2 British fighters like the Hurricane and Spitfire carried .303-caliber MGs and shot down armored Nazi fighters like the Bf-109 Messerschmidt and bombers like the Heinkel He-111 and Junkers JU-88.
I have thought for many years that it was foolish for police to use civilian-type un-armored helicopters. Anyone with an AK47 or other rifle of medium to high caliber can turn a low-flying un-armored helo into Swiss cheese.
Report Post »bluesguitar777
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:20pmBluestrat – Agreed. I think the only reason they don’t is the added weight. Oh well give and take…
Love the name, btw :)
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:33pmPlease, If a govt goon official took fire from a BB gun he would characterize it as “malicious assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill warranting the death penalty”. The govt goons screw us at every turn then they wonder why we hate their guts.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:21pmI wonder if this kid would be able to hit AF1 if given the chance.
Report Post »BiteMePETA
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:15pmThe Blaze didn’t mention how his friend died. The Blaze left out some important information it seems.
Some of you said this makes no sense. Stories rarely do when a huge portion of it is not there. I’ll wait to hear the full story before I come to any conclusions…
Report Post »Getten
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:33pmHis friend was trampled at a medical marijuana dispensary offering free Easter bongs with a nickle bag purchase.
Report Post »Woman
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:52pmMr Biteme, You’re saying there could be justification for shooting at a chopper? Hmm, inform me please.
Report Post »afellowpatriot
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 3:39amThat’s not so unusual in a typical third world city.
Report Post »afellowpatriot
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 3:47amMost def. That’s the only aspect of this need concern us. And if he’s illegal…maybe the DOJ will provide a top level defense attorney…you know…one of them guys that gets Muslim terrorists off on technicalities. Like maybe one of the officers gave him a look. The important thing to remember is the kid is a victim. Of something.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:08pmThis is not a California thing or LA thing. This is a crime of convenience. He’s distraught and angry as hell with the powers that be, and a police chopper just happens to come flying within gun range. Actually surprised stuff like that hasn’t happened more. But the more ongoing wars on cable, the more these blatant attempts seam feasible. Choppers & planes need to be ready to strategize. You never know when this administration will plant another saboteur to push anti-gun laws.
Report Post »GetUpOnTheWheel
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:06pmIt’s a normal response.
Report Post »Lose a friend, shoot a chopper. Happens all the time.
EqualJustice
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:04pmWE NEED to defund LaRaza along with Planned Parenthood and every other SOCIALIST organization! Why are TAXPAYERS forced to pay for these?
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJg_ovIgpUw
patriotteapress
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:59pmI smell more gun laws on the horizon. The kid was not at fault. The gun made him do it!
Report Post »Sky0bserv3r
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:56pmHere comes more GUN Control!!!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:56pmidiot
throw the book at him and then cement him into his cell
stricter punishment and elimination of parole will help lower the stupid rate but this will only lower crime rates if it also teaches family values and strengths
or, firing squads your choice
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:55pmI know I usually shoot at police choppers or police cars when I lose a friend…
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:08pmI know I usually shoot at police choppers or police cars when I lose a friend…
Report Post »—————————
He was doing the job Americans won’t do
Shasta
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 7:31pmImmigration status is not the issue here. Anyway, my son, who is in the Navy, lost a close friend in a diving accident. My son got pretty drunk that night. He and other friends sat around telling stories about their lost buddy and did some crying as well. I don’t think shooting cops ever entered their conversation.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:55pmIs he or his family illegal aliens? Relevant information.
Report Post »Seamus236
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:26pmI highly doubt they are illegal at all. Most of the country assumes that anyone with a Hispanic surname is “illegal”, not so at all. I’m sure that Mr. Lopez and his family members are as homegrown USA natives as I am. Glad his family caught him, and he’s now in custody. And yes, we should be asking how Mr. Lopez acquired the semi-auto rifle he was firing at the Airwatch ship. THAT is relevant.
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:51pmAgreed Seamus. Citizenship status is not really the point of this story.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:54pmCan you say, “You’re `dead’ fast enough? I would “kill” that kid in a new york second.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:56pmWhy? Because he dared to fire upon a govt employee? But if he had shot at a ordinary citizen, why, then he would get a pass. Right?
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:53pmThis action makes little sense.at age 18,he is toast. what a waste.
Report Post »Getten
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:29pmIt’s CA. He’ll be in Congress in a couple years.
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:53pmGood on his family to subdue him.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:58pmMr Logan
That’s your spin on it, “good”
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:53pmIs this a peek into our future?
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:22pmIn 30 days Google will remove this story from it’s files.
Report Post »Then someone like Mr.Logan on day 31 will say about this story, ya right prove it.
Like those older McDonald‘s beating video’s, many of them are hard to find.
TRUTH
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:31pmBrasil, it’s “TRUTH” now, get it right. This story won‘t go anywhere and I won’t deny it happened. You clearly don’t know the way that I work or the way that the media works.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:17pmNo surprise, LA County has over 500 criminal gangs. Don’t anyone forget when the progressives talk about the bottom up it includes the criminal dregs as part of their army.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:52pmLook Mr. Logan, ZORRO
One of YOU people shot down a chopper !
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:11pmLast year when Brasil won the Olympic games to be played in Sao Paulo and Rio, that same week gangs shoot down a police chopper with a 50 Cal.
Do you see why I live in America, the said part is America is becoming Mexico, Africa, Brasil . . .
Maybe time to move again, last place without the bro’s is Iceland.
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:14pmIf this guy was blue, green or pink it would change nothing. What if you were blind, completely blind. If someone kicked you, you wouldn‘t know that person’s race. You would only know that somebody kicked you and it hurt.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:31pmMr Logan
I have been kicked, beat by YOU people in Brasil and in NYC, so has my mother and my wife when she was 13 in Tacoma WA
Let’s talk about what you wrote, if you keep getting kicked in a city / country but not in the other city / country, you would move to the place that you are not getting kicked right !
I have moved more than I can count, the whiter the city is the less I get kicked.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:51pm@Brasil2520:
I am born to an American father and a legal imigrant mother, and often suffer from those who see me as nothing more than a ‘non american waste’ and such from the totally clueless idiots they show to be in this world; the fact is this, I am an American, first, formost, and always, and I will be condemned to the furthest corners of the oceanic abyssal plain before I let anyone chase me out of my home.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:09pm@ Snow
Patriotism is in your heart & not on a piece of paper .
Report Post »An ID just tells a human being to what nationality he belongs to but the real ID is in our hearts if we truly love & respect this great country or not .
I feel so sad when I see a lot of Americans being Anti Americans & letting this great country go downhill .
GOD Bless American the land of the free & the home of the brave .
poverty.sucks
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:52pmWill he be sitting or standing during Pledge of Allegiance?
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:52pmCalifornia, did you expect anything less.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 2:58pmThis is why we need the DREAM Act .
And Amnesty
cheezwhiz
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:01pmDanny Lopez, 18, was shooting a firearm because he was distraught over the death of a friend
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Wonder how he reacts when he is happy :D
Cemoto78
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:02pmI thought LA and CA had gun control, now how in the world did this under 21 year old get a gun. Could be another sting operation by the ATF I suppose.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:05pmHe must have got his inspiration from those Libyan rebels who always seem to shoot in the air and waste ammunition. Is that why we need to send advisers over there, to tell them to shoot at the enemy instead of in the air?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:10pmNo not suprised much anymore with anything happening in California.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:12pmDoes anyone wonder at times when these shootings at the choppers and planes with guns and the green lasers could be copycats seeking to gain fame for ‘home grown terrorist’ actions? It occurs to me that at times, these copycats just want a moment of fame for their actions.
In this case though, who knows, I am glad his family had the guts to take action and tackel him.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:13pmDid the police shoot his friend? why take it out on them? There‘s no way the MSM will report if he’s an illegal or not.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:14pmThank GOD that the chopper didn‘t fall down it’s few miles away from where I live but don’t worry guys they will find for Mr LOPEZ the right social program & few classes on how to control his grief & he’ll be out again .
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:41pmThe really sad part, WE taxpayers will wind up covering the the of everything involved with this.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:43pmLopez was tackled by his family and subsequently arrested for attempted murder of a police officer.
Good for the family…
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:45pmBLAME BUSH!
BLAME BUSH!
BLAME BUSH!
hey bud gotta light?
Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:46pmMy only regret about this story is that the chopper didn’t fall on that POS! Lopez, now we have to pay for his Lawyer, food . . .
How much do you want to bet he already has 2 – 3 kids, that we are feeding !
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 3:58pmLet’s look at the high sides of this story: 1. Chopper landed safely and no one was hurt 2. Family stopped and held boy and he was arrested. At least that family had some sense of right and wrong and did what was right – they had to know there would be consequences.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:24pm@Non_Probate_Asset
Report Post »That was in answer to someone else on here who wondered if he was an illegal or not.
I know murder is murder, but like I said, it would never get reported.
Mil-Dot
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:25pmSo if he had shot at a family driving down the street in a station wagon, then it would have been “improper discharging of a firearm into a vehicle”. But if you shoot at a helicopter with cops in it it is “Attempted Murder of a Govt official with malicious intent to kill warranting the death penalty” . What a bunch of BS.
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 4:29pmI read about this story on the LATimes.
The LAPD copter was fired on after the pilot responded to a report of gunshots in Van Nuys, a detective says. Danny Lopez, 18, is arrested after family members tackle him.
How many Rap videos depict the police as the enemy? How many Hollywood movies? And then everyone is shocked when a teenager shoots a police helicopter.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:07pm……..
Report Post »Upset about the death of a friend so you shoot (and hit) a police helicopter?
That death wouldn’t happen to be a gang-banger death, would it, Mr. Lopez?
Mr. Lopez, may we see your green card?
mill
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:11pmCalifornia..okay, the whole left coast and the east too…should fall off the face of the earth.
We are growing trash over there. Pure unadulterated trash.
I maybe generalizing, but I’m doing it on purpose. Trash!!!! trash!!!! trash!!!!
Report Post »bluesguitar777
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:17pmCemoto78 – CA allows adults ages 18+ to purchase rifles with a background check (10 day wait). Handguns or Rifles with pistol grips are 21+.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:46pmAnd the whole world wondered at his great shooting skills. Must have not been a union teenager.
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 5:57pm@ CEMOTO
Hey Cemoto. whats the deal with Cemoto? That’s not as in Bultaco is it?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 7:27pm@Czar Casm,
as a matter of fact it is. As a young lad I was into the Pursangs and raced them in the midwest. You must be another motorcycle enthusiast from the good ole days when Maico, Husqvarna, Penton, and the European bikes were the rage!
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 7:35pmAnd we need CITIZENS who SPEAK THE NATIVE LANGUAGE!
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 8:13pmHe must be a racist.
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 11:12pmThe really sad part is the fact a kid from the ghetto has better gunnery skills than the libyan rebels.
Get him a 40mm bofers, and send him to the front!
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