Written by: ANTI-MEDIA Staff at theantimedia.org

At approximately 3am local time Sunday morning, a police officer was shot and killed in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office have yet to identify the slain officer or the suspect attached to the shooting. A motive for the killing has yet to be provided either but the Tampa Bay Times did report that the victim was a Tarpon Springs police officer.

The only known suspect fled the scene of the shooting before crashing their vehicle into a telephone pole and another vehicle. The suspect was subsequently apprehended and taken into custody, according to police.

This marks the 3rd officer to be shot in killed in the United States in 24 hours, after two NYPD officers were killed on a Brooklyn street corner Saturday afternoon.

No other details have been provided at this time.

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A tragedy has unfolded in the New York PD. Brinsley, a man with a string of arrests behind him, shot two Police Officers execution style, after shooting his girlfriend in Maryland and fleeing the scene. It was from his girlfriend’s Instagram accounts that he threatened to carry out the killings of New York Police Officers without any remorse, in the name of Eric Garner.

The two NYPD officers slain in Brooklyn on Dec. 20: Wenjian Liu, left, and Raphael Ramos. (AP Photo/New York Police)

Eric Garner’s family are shocked by the occurrence and in no way condoning the violent act by releasing a statement through their attorney. ‘We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. It cannot be tolerated. We must work together to bring peace to our communities.’

It is one thing to protest in the name of justice and rally together as a community and quite the other to take into your hands, a callous act under false pretense; using a well-known social issue in vain. Brinsley was seen fleeing the squad car after the killings, before turning his gun onto himself in the subway, fatally shooting himself in the head.

This also comes at a time when the police department is locked into arguments with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio of the treatment of officers after a statement he issued about the protests and police relations with minorities being strained.

At a press conference addressing the deaths of the two New York Police Officers he stated, ‘I don’t think it’s the time for politics or political analysis,” he said. ‘It’s a time to think about families that just lost their father, their husband, their son.’

UPDATE: Florida Police Officer Killed Overnight. 3rd Officer Dead in 24 hours.

Pope Francis, elected to his position in 2013, will be making a speech in early January, encouraging people to move away from those products produced by slave labor and to end the ‘general indifference’ that we suffer on a global scale. On face value it is an effort worth applauding, but one must wonder why such a speech will be given after Christmas.

But it is not just this speech, where the opening has been released to the public, but it is his other commentaries on other agendas involving the world’s currency and global governance that pique interest; not to mention his recent refusal to greet the Dalai Lama when he visited Vatican City in fear of upsetting political China.

Pope Francis has recently been advocating for a global currency and global governance through his unmitigated support of the UN’s role in wartime strategy. It isn’t surprising given the powers that the Vatican hold, and the ties they have with many elitists.

Yet in the very speech he is set to give in January, it is said that he will also be attacking the governments and multi-national corporations as well as law enforcement agencies, drawing attention to their shared responsibility in the exploitation of people.

The next step taken by the Vatican will no doubt be an interesting one.