California searching for alleged illegal alien cop killer

USA Today:
California authorities are searching for a man who killed a small-town police officer the day after Christmas, a manhunt that prompted a tweet on Thursday from President Donald Trump.

Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson saidThursday they have identified the suspect who fatally shot Newman Police Department Cpl. Ronil Singh during a traffic stop, saying the man is living illegally in the United States but not naming him.

"We will relentlessly continue to hunt our suspect down and bring him to justice so that ... we can bring closure onto this community and this police department," Christianson said. “This suspect is in our country illegally. He doesn’t belong here. He is a criminal."

On Twitter, Trump connected the "full scale manhunt going on in California for an illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing a police officer" to his call for a crackdown on border security as a partial government shutdown over funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border stretched into its fifth day.

"Time to get tough on Border Security," Trump tweeted. "Build the Wall!"
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Early Wednesday morning, Singh stopped a pickup truck without a license plate as part of a drunken driving investigation in Newman, about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco. Singh fired back to try to defend himself, Christianson said, and later died at a local hospital. The suspect fled the scene but authorities later found the truck.

Authorities say surveillance photos from a nearby convenience store show the suspect, a heavyset man with short dark hair wearing a chain necklace, dark T-shirt and jacket.
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California politicians have some responsibility because of their senseless sanctuary state policies that have turned the state into hostile territory for immigration law enforcement.   One of the ironies, in this case, is that the officer who was killed was a legal immigrant.

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